Question How do I get the number of active users and display it elsewhere on the forum?

[Jeremy]

I look at the template for the number (in the tab), but it just says 0, so I'm not sure how that works.

<a href="javascript://" onclick="return vBShout{vb:var instance.instanceid}.show_tab('activeusers');">
{vb:phrase dbtech_vbshout_active_users}</a>:
<span id="dbtech_shoutbox_activeusers{vb:var instance.instanceid}">0</span>

Anyway, I'm trying to get that number and put it somewhere else on the forum (like in a navtab) so people can see how many people are chatting.

 

[Fillip H.]

I don't believe this can be easily achieved atm, but for a future version we can look into making this available for templates

It works by AJAX fetching the count and overriding that number.