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Evaluating IPB vs. vB for new site.


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#1 jawatkin

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Posted 12 March 2010 - 11:36 AM

I currently own 3 sites running vB 3.8 and I'm not sure when I'm going to see a mature-enough version of vB 4.x that will warrant an upgrade (though I have vb4 licenses for all 3.. yay...).

In my evaluation of IPB, I've noticed the following two items on this site and am wondering how it is accomplished as I can't find it in the demo. There appears to be two "notices" at the top of this site. The first one with the "x" to close only persists in the IP.Board skin, so I'm thinking that is skin-specific? The second one persists across skins and only on the forum index.

Can someone let me know how either are achieved?

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Posted 12 March 2010 - 11:43 AM

View the latest news can be setup pretty easily. I don't think the other message is a vanilla IPB ability. I think you gotta mod the template or something. o.O
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 11:50 AM

The latest news bit is a feature in IP.Board v3 and the other thing I think IPS added them selves for this site.

I could be wrong so IPS Staff correct me if I am.

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Posted 12 March 2010 - 12:02 PM

View Postjawatkin, on 12 March 2010 - 11:36 AM, said:

I currently own 3 sites running vB 3.8 and I'm not sure when I'm going to see a mature-enough version of vB 4.x that will warrant an upgrade (though I have vb4 licenses for all 3.. yay...).

In my evaluation of IPB, I've noticed the following two items on this site and am wondering how it is accomplished as I can't find it in the demo. There appears to be two "notices" at the top of this site. The first one with the "x" to close only persists in the IP.Board skin, so I'm thinking that is skin-specific? The second one persists across skins and only on the forum index.

Can someone let me know how either are achieved?

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I know that the second one is achieved through the news function standard in IPB. I can't access my board right now otherwise I'd tell you more

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Posted 12 March 2010 - 12:19 PM

The latter, the News indicator, can be reached via the ACP System Settings > Forums > News Setup > Export News (choose forum) > Show Latest News on Index? > Yes. The first I'm none-to-sure about though. I know you can edit specific skins to include things, so its just a skin edit (YAY! Fully customizable skins!).

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Posted 12 March 2010 - 12:29 PM

The first is an additional item that IPS included here, however within the members lounge it gives full instructions.

The second is built in and simply pulls the subject from a forum of your choosing. it can be shown or hidden depending upon the admin's wishes.
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 01:11 PM

Sorry I'm not sure about the first announcement but there are a couple of announcement mods available.

The news one is just a matter of enabling the "Show a 'Latest News' link on the board index?" option in the admin control panel.

Hope this helps.

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Posted 12 March 2010 - 01:21 PM

Yup, I'm wondering that too.

I'd like some answers. :)
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 07:12 PM

I really like that first option because it can be closed and looks nice, I would like to use this for my board as well, I hope it's more clearly explained by IPS :)

A link to the instructions would be nice as well, sorry I'm new and am still trying to figure out where everything is :ph34r:

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 09:53 AM

Awesome, thanks for the help everyone! Absolutely LOVE the "quick search" in the Admin CP.. I just put in "latest news" and it brought me straight there! Brilliant.

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 06:51 PM

View Postjawatkin, on 13 March 2010 - 09:53 AM, said:

Awesome, thanks for the help everyone! Absolutely LOVE the "quick search" in the Admin CP.. I just put in "latest news" and it brought me straight there! Brilliant.
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Posted 13 March 2010 - 09:10 PM

Please keep in mind that IPB is not vB and they have their differences.

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 05:00 AM

View Postiikato, on 12 March 2010 - 07:12 PM, said:

I really like that first option because it can be closed and looks nice, I would like to use this for my board as well, I hope it's more clearly explained by IPS :)

A link to the instructions would be nice as well, sorry I'm new and am still trying to figure out where everything is :ph34r:

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Posted 15 March 2010 - 09:33 AM

View Post.Ian, on 14 March 2010 - 05:00 AM, said:

http://community.inv...ost__p__1908680

Link will only work for active customers.

Thank you for saving me from going to hunt down the link :lol:

We've already posted how to do it, though you need to have an active license to access the area.
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