Pre-filled New Post

[ldove]

All posts will be exactly the same. Unless you can do it on a forum by forum basis. That would be the ultimate. Baby steps though, baby steps. LOL

[Austin Dea]

This won't work with the WYSIWYG editor, cool?

Okay, you're going to need the forumid's of the seprate forums. Also, these edits will be made to the templates editor_toolbar_off and editor_toolbar_standard.

Find: $newpost[message]

Before it, add this:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT==newthread">
<if condition="$forumid==X">Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Country:
</if>
</if>

Just replace the red X with the forumid you want with that info.


If you want more forums, just copy what is between the 2nd and 3rd <if> tags(including the tags themselves). ie.:

<if condition="$forumid==X">Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Country:
</if>
<if condition="$forumid==Y">Name:
Address:
Age:
Weight:
Height:
</if>
<if condition="$forumid==Z">Name:
Address:
Password:
Birthday:
</if>

[ldove]

Ok.. Looks simple enough. Here's what I have...

 
<!-- START NORMAL TEXT AREA -->
$vBeditTemplate[clientscript]
<div class="controlbar" style="text-align:$stylevar[left]">
<textarea name="message" rows="20" cols="60" wrap="virtual" style="width:$stylevar[messagewidth]; height:250px" tabindex="1"><if condition="THIS_SCRIPT==newthread">
<if condition="$forumid==2">Name: 
Address: 
City: 
State: 
Country:
</if>
</if> $newpost[message]</textarea>
</div>
<!-- END NORMAL TEXT AREA -->

This look right? Sorry, Im not a coder, so if its in the wrong spot, let me know. This is what I assumed you meant from you saying, 'before $newpost[message]'.

Thanks,

[Austin Dea]

Yep, that's exactly right.

[MJM]

Very interesting!
Am I correct in that one could use this to create a forum for conducting a survey/questionare/list for members to fill in?

I suppose if there was a reply to the first post, the list would also be in the reply too, right?

Mark

[Austin Dea]

Hmm, that would be a little different. You would use THIS_SCRIPT==newreply, you wouldn't be able to use the quickreply, and you would have to define each set by threadid's, which might be kind of a pain. If you would like to get more advanced than what I have here, I would suggest Erwin's cool hack located here.

[MJM]

That is one very cool hack of Erwin's! It's far far more then I ever realized could be done.
Will need to think this through now, with so many possibilities.
Thanks!

Mark

[ldove]

Austin... Doesn't work. Can you cut and paste your test code?

BTW, that Erwin's thing looks pretty cool. I might look into that to replace what I'm asking for here, but I'm really just wanting the default text in the newthread window.

Thanks,

[Austin Dea]

Are you sure you have the right forum id? Did you make the edit to both editor_toolbar_off and editor_toolbar_standard? Are you using the WYSIWYG editor?

[ldove]

Success!

Are you sure you have the right forum id? Did you make the edit to both editor_toolbar_off and editor_toolbar_standard? Are you using the WYSIWYG editor?

Hmm.. I guess I had something foobar. I defaulted the template, and reinput the code. Looks just like I wanted. Austin, Thanks a bunch.

Regards,

[NBSFlak]

Big Bump!

Is there any way to do this with newer versions? There is no longer a editor_toolbar_standard template

[Jose Amaral Rego]

Big Bump!

Is there any way to do this with newer versions? There is no longer a editor_toolbar_standard template

# find in template: editor_toolbar_on
# add in red.
# replace 'X' with forum (id)

			<td class="controlbar">
				<textarea name="message" id="{$editorid}_textarea" rows="10" cols="60" style="display:block; width:$stylevar[messagewidth]; height:{$editor_height}px" tabindex="1" dir="$stylevar[textdirection]"><if condition="THIS_SCRIPT==newthread">
<if condition="$forumid==X">Name: 
Address: 
City: 
State: 
Country:
</if>
</if>$newpost[message]</textarea>
			</td>

[NBSFlak]

Works like a dream. Thank you SO much for your help, You've saved me a big headache.