Usergroup Default Settings

[Jeska]

Is there a way to edit the default posting settings for a particular usergroup?

I want all of a particular usergroup's posts to appear in a different color/font than the current default, would this be possilbe?

[Colin F]

There's no setting, but you could hack something together by editing the templates.

You'd edit the div surrounding the messagetext, and add an if conditional with the appropriate style variables.

[Jeska]

Colin,

Sounds good - could you provide more information on how I could edit it for a particular usergroup only? (sorry, I'm not yet a pro at editing templates!)

[Colin F]

Edit your postbit template.
Find:

<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>

Replace that with:

<div id="post_message_$post[postid]" <if condition="is_member_of($post, 6)">style="font:1.5em Garamond;"</if>>$post[message]</div>

Replace 6 with the usergroupid.
Replace font:1.5em Garamond; with whatever style options you want.

[Jeska]

I did the search/replace under "Styles & Templates" and it couldn't find the bit you referenced (<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>) - I feel like I'm looking in the wrong space.

How would I find the postbit template to edit it?

[Colin F]

In your Style Manager, click on Edit Templates, and look through the list of templates for the postbit templates.

[Jeska]

I feel like I'm doing something wrong, I can't find:

<div id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>

in any of the postbit templates. I also did a search for "post_message" and couldn't find that either - the only piece I found that referenced "message" is:

<!-- message -->
<div>$post[message]</div>
<!-- / message -->

Is that the bit I should be editing?

More Info:
I'm running 3.0.5 and according to the style manager, we haven't edited any of the postbit files. We are using the legacy postbit, so I assume that means I would need to edit the postbit_legacy file - is this causing my pain?

[Colin F]

That's the problem
The template has been updated in the meantime.
Yes, what you found is the bit you're looking for.

And yes, you'll have to apply change to the postbit_legacy template.

[Jeska]

Thanks for your help!

Ok, I've got one more question -- I've got the by usergroup working. Is it possible to then limit it by forum/subforum.

So using this forum as an example, the same usergroup would have the changed settings for the 3.0 forum, but not the 3.5 forum?

[Colin F]

That'd be a bit more complicated.
You could add this to the conditional:

AND $forumid == 32

making:

<if condition="is_member_of($post, 6) AND $forumid == 32">

Add more forums by using OR $forumid == 34 and so on.