Site Staff Revamp/ Restructuring
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Lex
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The Twilight Mexican
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- TresDias
Motion seconded! And the motion passes!
Lex
Administrator
All Admins (&everyone else, but admins especially) please read.
I realise I'm triple posting but:
Creating the usergroups and setting the permissions is easy enough. Flintlock, you should now have the permissions but your user title isn't appearing (it did once then it disappeared). I seem to be missing permissions to edit user title hierarchy and I need all of the new user groups to appear as the same colour.
Everyone pick a colour, we're all going to be the same (me too). I vote Lifestream green.
Now Flint is the example: I got it to display on his postbit for a short time and then it disappeared. I tried to emulate what my profile looks like in the backend but vBulletin wouldn't let me set the same primary and secondary usergroup.
I need to have a sit down with Aaron or someone who knows this and unlock whatever I can't access to fix this before I can do everyone elses. Once one is created it's simply a matter of copying those and changing the names, editing the forum permissions is easy enough. I've been at this for two hours trying to get it to display properly and no one is here so I'm stuck until tomorrow or whenever I can chat to Aaron
And Aaron I know you're good at getting stuff like this done but if you could explain it to me so I can do it in future that would be grand, I don't want to keep bothering you for this stuff and it means I can get into it when you're not around.
Essentially what I need to know is:
How to make the user title display on the postbit
How to set a colour for the user title (a la the donator colours)
How to set the title to appear directly below the username
I'm missing the permissions to do these things.
cheers in advance bubba <3
I realise I'm triple posting but:
Creating the usergroups and setting the permissions is easy enough. Flintlock, you should now have the permissions but your user title isn't appearing (it did once then it disappeared). I seem to be missing permissions to edit user title hierarchy and I need all of the new user groups to appear as the same colour.
Everyone pick a colour, we're all going to be the same (me too). I vote Lifestream green.
Now Flint is the example: I got it to display on his postbit for a short time and then it disappeared. I tried to emulate what my profile looks like in the backend but vBulletin wouldn't let me set the same primary and secondary usergroup.
I need to have a sit down with Aaron or someone who knows this and unlock whatever I can't access to fix this before I can do everyone elses. Once one is created it's simply a matter of copying those and changing the names, editing the forum permissions is easy enough. I've been at this for two hours trying to get it to display properly and no one is here so I'm stuck until tomorrow or whenever I can chat to Aaron
And Aaron I know you're good at getting stuff like this done but if you could explain it to me so I can do it in future that would be grand, I don't want to keep bothering you for this stuff and it means I can get into it when you're not around.
Essentially what I need to know is:
How to make the user title display on the postbit
How to set a colour for the user title (a la the donator colours)
How to set the title to appear directly below the username
I'm missing the permissions to do these things.
cheers in advance bubba <3
Cthulhu
Administrator
- AKA
- Yop
When you edit a user, what you should be able to see on the right is a dropdown for Primary Usergroup, and checkboxes for secondary usergroups. If a user has both a primary and secondary usergroup, a second dropdown will appear labeled 'display usergroup', which if I'm right will be the usergroup whose visible styling will appear on the poastbits:
But it looks like you set it already. I think Flint should have a site staff set as primary usergroup though, because of permissions and shit (idk if he still has the same permissions now).
As for setting the user title colour and title position, that'll take a template edit, and it'll probably be applied for every user
. You'll have to tell me exactly which title goes where though, my brain hurts trying to differentiate between the three billion titles everyone has now.
But it looks like you set it already. I think Flint should have a site staff set as primary usergroup though, because of permissions and shit (idk if he still has the same permissions now).
As for setting the user title colour and title position, that'll take a template edit, and it'll probably be applied for every user
. You'll have to tell me exactly which title goes where though, my brain hurts trying to differentiate between the three billion titles everyone has now.
LicoriceAllsorts
Donator
I will miss my gold lettering but lifestream green is a good choice.
Lex
Administrator
When you edit a user, what you should be able to see on the right is a dropdown for Primary Usergroup, and checkboxes for secondary usergroups. If a user has both a primary and secondary usergroup, a second dropdown will appear labeled 'display usergroup', which if I'm right will be the usergroup whose visible styling will appear on the poastbits:
But it looks like you set it already. I think Flint should have a site staff set as primary usergroup though, because of permissions and shit (idk if he still has the same permissions now).
As for setting the user title colour and title position, that'll take a template edit, and it'll probably be applied for every user
Community Manager has the same permissions as a section mod aside from the ability to see mod forums, infractions and warnings, and give out infractions and warnings. I think I've done all of that correctly. Essentially it's the sit contributor role + the ability to move threads etc. All the other editor roles will have the same permissions.
The idea is to replace the Site Contributor role with all of these. Essentially I tried to copy what's going on in mine (Site Director in all 3 categories with Donator Orange ticked aswell) but vBulletin wouldn't let me. And if you take a look at Flint's posts, the "Community Manager" role isn't appearing on the left of the post bit. idk why
To clarify Yop, I can see all of those options, they're just not doing what I want them to do XD
@Lic, I'm hoping to just have the editor user titles appear as the green colour (I'm also fond of the gold), though if people would like our usernames to go this colour too I suppose we could do that instead.
Ⓐaron
Factiō Rēpūblicāna dēlenda est.
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- The Man, V
Ok, so first of all, the "Community Manager" isn't showing up because you didn't make a user rank for it. You can do that in "User Rank Manager". I'd recommend copying the formatting and settings from other existing ranks, then replacing with the appropriate colour. Depending on whether you want there to be other staff ranks for the Community Manager you can either select "displaygroup" or "always" for when to display it.
The user colour is editable in the "Usergroup" manager under "Username HTML Markup". This mostly won't require template edits, but if you want them to be able to use their own custom username colours it will require a template edit that I'll do myself because it's very easy to screw up the postbit. Let me know what usergroups need to be included and I'll edit them in.
Was there anything else? My reading comprehension isn't the greatest today.
The user colour is editable in the "Usergroup" manager under "Username HTML Markup". This mostly won't require template edits, but if you want them to be able to use their own custom username colours it will require a template edit that I'll do myself because it's very easy to screw up the postbit. Let me know what usergroups need to be included and I'll edit them in.
Was there anything else? My reading comprehension isn't the greatest today.
Lex
Administrator
I don't have the permissions to edit User Rank manager, therein lies the problem. Please give me these permissions
Ideally I want the new user titles to display in Lifestream green (equivalent to the site graphics/ materia balls, bright etc) but not the actual usernames. I promise I won't fuck anything up if you give me the permission to do that either, again this is one of those things I should be able to do. I shall be very careful <3
I spent a great deal of time reading about these kinds of things on the vB forums so I do know what to do, it's just a matter of getting the permissions.
Ideally I want the new user titles to display in Lifestream green (equivalent to the site graphics/ materia balls, bright etc) but not the actual usernames. I promise I won't fuck anything up if you give me the permission to do that either, again this is one of those things I should be able to do. I shall be very careful <3
I spent a great deal of time reading about these kinds of things on the vB forums so I do know what to do, it's just a matter of getting the permissions.
Lex
Administrator
Yeah but that doesn't exactly help us with the other 10 usergroups that need to be made. I can see "User Rank Manager" but I can't add new ones/ ones that I've created aren't appearing there.
#0066CC
And the thing is it might not look so good so I was gonna experiment with colours.
#0066CC
And the thing is it might not look so good so I was gonna experiment with colours.
Lex
Administrator
I do now
I screwed around with my own permissions (I know, bad me). I looked at a screenshot of a "regular" admin backend on the vB forums and indeed that option wasn't appearing, I've managed to sort it. Though I'm not sure how I was able to give myself permissions I didn't already have XD. FLAW!
I screwed around with my own permissions (I know, bad me). I looked at a screenshot of a "regular" admin backend on the vB forums and indeed that option wasn't appearing, I've managed to sort it. Though I'm not sure how I was able to give myself permissions I didn't already have XD. FLAW!
Ⓐaron
Factiō Rēpūblicāna dēlenda est.
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- The Man, V
What permissions did you alter? Because when I looked at your permissions it said you should already have access to the ability to edit users, which should have given you the ability to edit user ranks as well.
As for how you were able to edit your permissions, maybe Yop has you set as a super admin. That's the only thing I can think of.
As for how you were able to edit your permissions, maybe Yop has you set as a super admin. That's the only thing I can think of.
Lex
Administrator
I guess it doesn't really matter now (plus I don't remember XD), I finally got it to display correctly. HOORAY!
EDIT: Is there a way to set user title colour (specified in user rank manager) to override custom colours set by users on the left of the postbit? ala SMod etc. It appears correctly on Flint's because he doesn't use any customisation options. Lic's will appear properly aswell.
EDIT: Is there a way to set user title colour (specified in user rank manager) to override custom colours set by users on the left of the postbit? ala SMod etc. It appears correctly on Flint's because he doesn't use any customisation options. Lic's will appear properly aswell.
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