I'm a moderator on an rp board. While we're waiting for our ezboard to be imported into yuku, I made a testing board so I could try out some things.
One idea I had is for a sub-forum that could only be posted to/edited by the gm's. This would be used for the setting description for our rp setting in a
kind of online encylopedia setup, with each post dealing with a specific area of our rp world, but with certain words or phrases being links to the other posts
(almost like a wikipedia setup, but without anything more complex than a simple customization of the yuku board). In order for this to work the way I wanted it
to, the sub-forum itself would need to be invisible to all but the gm's, except with regular users would able to have read-only access the individual posts
through html links. Would something like this be possible?
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 Merick TeVaran |
html linking to invisible board? |
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Posts: 6 11 Apr, 2008 16:09 |
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zoetko |
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Posts: 230 12 Apr, 2008 08:47 Helper |
I think I follow you. How does this sound.
You could setup the subforum with the relevant rights, gm's get full rights, everyone else gets read. On the main forum, you actually hide the subforum option, so that no one can actually see it. ( i.e. you need to have the link to the forum to goto it ) On the skin for the subforum. You specfically remove the breadcrums on the view threads. ( this would allow people to see the individual posts, but not link back to the main subforum. ) all of this though, can be undone by anyone with sufficient knowledge. As there would still be many ways to get to the subforum with a little know how. ( so its more of a cosmetic approah, than an actual security option ) Zoe |
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Merick TeVaran |
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Posts: 6 12 Apr, 2008 12:59 |
(breadcrumbs?)
I tried marking the subforum invisible from the board settings, but when I go back after logging out, the link I posted in the visible forum brings you to a "forum does not exist" page Here's a link to my test board: http://ghgfdhgdjgfdhgjhgdhghgfdhgfdhg.yuku.com/ And a cosmetic approach is fine, as all I'm really looking to do here is to make it not look like a message board and the only ones who will be given the rights to post/edit anything in it will be people who we've known and trusted for years |
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zoetko |
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Posts: 230 12 Apr, 2008 13:08 Helper |
hehe,
Breadcrums are the navigation links you see at the top, which drill down with you as you go into forums ( so you always know where you are and can jump back quickly ) The idea of removing that on the subforum would mean that there would be no way when viewing a post of telling it was actually part of a subforum, as you could not click on the breadcrum to take you back to the subforum. As for hiding the subforum link, I did not mean making it invisible ( as that affects secuirty ). I mean we could use css code to "not display the link", even though security wise, it should be. If your happy with that idea, I will work on the css code you will need to add to your board to get the effect. Zoe |
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Merick TeVaran |
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Posts: 6 12 Apr, 2008 13:21 |
Ah, well I know absolutely nothing about css, so anything you can do to help will be appreciated
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Merick TeVaran |
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Posts: 6 10 May, 2008 19:52 |
I don't suppose you've come up with anything for this have you? I've been meaning to look into this css stuff myself but I haven't really had
the time
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zoetko |
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Posts: 230 13 May, 2008 05:53 Helper |
Sorry hun, I have been so busy I totally forgot about this, I have done a little work on it now for you.
.dropdown.subforums {display: none;} this will "hide" the subforums from display on your main board. Now edit the "skin" for the sub forum itself. ( if it is using the active default, you will need to make a new skin for it. Once thats done, then do this: Again, in the advanced css box, at the bottom, add this extra-content.tool-box.box {display: none;} The effect of this is to hide the navigation links, from the sub forum. This means when a user clicks on a URL link to a post in the subforum, it will look less like a message board. Try the above code and then let me know if there is anything else you would like tweaked. Zoe
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Merick TeVaran |
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Posts: 6 14 May, 2008 13:20 |
I did that, but didn't really notice any change in the way it looked.
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exstreamuser |
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Posts: 713 14 May, 2008 16:08 Helper |
You wouldn't other than the breadcrumbs. What you are calling a subforum is not what Zoe is calling a subforum. What you actually have is a forum. A
subforum is a forum within a forum.
This is a little more complicated than it looks. There are a great many ways to access a forum and one of these is the forum jump menu. It is impossible to remove a single forum from it. Give me 24 hours to think on it and I'll see if I can come up with something that will do the job for you. |
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Merick TeVaran |
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Posts: 6 22 May, 2008 13:08 |
Thanks for looking into this guys, but the discussion on the board has been moving away from having a set world that would require the large world description
that this would have been used for. I would still be interested if you've been able to figure this out, but it's not the priority it once was.
Another thing I was thinking about though - are there any scripts that could be added to a board that could automatically move a thread to an "inactive threads" folder if no posts have been made to it for several months? |
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exstreamuser |
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Posts: 713 22 May, 2008 13:47 Helper |
Now that has been talked about but I haven't heard of any progress on it.
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