   |
| uCoz Community » uCoz Modules » Additional Features » Informers (help on informers, interesting solutions) |
| Informers |
# Informer Samples #
Informers serve to display entries of particular modules on any pages of any sites. For example, you can output the latest forum threads or most commented photos right on the main page. This helps to make your site more interesting and handy for the visitors. To create an Informer: 1. Go to Informers section on the main page of the Control Panel. 2. Press Create informer. 3. Select necessary module in the field with the pop-down list. (Additional options will appear depending on a module). 4. Set parameters of the options Number of entries and Number of columns. 5. Press Create. 6. Insert the obtained code of the type Code $MYINF_id$ 7. Informer appearance and the information for output can be edited in informer template. Type of information (uCoz codes) depends on the source module. List of codes, available for a certain informer, is under the form for editing template. With the help of the informer, you can output information both on pages of your website and on any other site in the internet. There are no explanations for the codes, used in informer template. This is because informers are a serious thing and you should not edit informers without good knowledge of HTML and uCoz system. Question-answer Where should I put the code of informer? *** *** *** *** *** *** I'm not active on the forum anymore. Please contact other forum staff.
|
i want to have an informer that shows all the articles my users post ( i am using the publisher module for this ). I would like to know what code id have to put in the informer to do this
Code <table width="100%"> <td width="40" align="center" valign="middle"> <img src="$image url?$" width="30"></td><td width="50%" align="center" valign="middle"><a href="$PROFILE_URL$">$USERNAME$</a></td><td width="50%" align="left" valign="middle"><b>$What Code?$</b> msg(s)</td></table> i need to know the image url because they have to add a photo to their article. Added (2009-11-15, 4:01 Pm) i want my informer to place only the picture on the home page |
lochy, all informer codes can be seen under the corresponding template. Image codes are $IMG_URL1..10$
Duke8954, yes, find List of category IDs: under Additional options when creating an informer. I'm not active on the forum anymore. Please contact other forum staff.
|
Not sure if this is a bug or an oversight on my part, but the (3D) smilies don't seem to work in the message part of informers. They appear as a red cross in a white box.
Even though they work fine in both the tag board (which uses the same div class ("cMessage") to display the message part of the chat) and the message being informed of. Its entry's background will also overlap with the next entry's background, and if at the end of the table, it will screw up the next block/module following the informer. Another thing is the apostrophe sign ' which is being displayed in html code in the informer message, something like:
Code & # 3 9 I added spaces between the characters to bypass automatic convertion by the forum to a straight quote mark. Does anyone else have these issues or did i miss something? ps: the informer I'm talking about was the comments informer. |
Core, 3D smilies must work fine, at least I do not have any problems with them in informers. The same concerns the apostrophe sign. As for background - be more specific please and provide a screenshot.
lochy, using standard uCoz informers? No, not possible. I'm not active on the forum anymore. Please contact other forum staff.
|
Sunny, see the comments section in the second container on this page:
http://ecoop.ucoz.com (using doctype XHTML 1.0, browser: IE 8 & Chrome) Shows both the smiley error and the merging backgrounds. Could this be a template issue? About the apostrophe, i suspect it happens because the maximum message length doesn't take into account an apostrophe as one characther but rather as the apostrophe html code i mentioned above. So, if for example you set the max length on 25 and the apostrophe code, which consists of 4 characters, starts at 23 and ends at 26, you'll not see the apostrophe, but rather the first three characters of the apostrophe code. This will probably be true for other special html characters that are encoded indirectly. ps: is text selection by mouse disabled in this forum? Couldn't select my own text while I was typing this reply. |
Core, yes, I can't see the smiley as well. In IE, Opera and Chrome it is a broken image icon, and in Firefox nothing. I tested the same template on the same server and there were no problems. Probably you are right and the problems are caused by the max length you set. Try to add a comment with a smiley at the beginning.
Quote (Core) is text selection by mouse disabled in this forum? No. Everything works fine. I'm not active on the forum anymore. Please contact other forum staff.
|
lochy, as far as understand your question - it is not possible with the help of standard means.
FaeRs, did you check permissions for categories? What informer are you trying to use, of which module? I'm not active on the forum anymore. Please contact other forum staff.
|
File Catalog Informer
I can't find the possibility to Sort the Entries by Edit Date. Should there be one? If not, i think this would be a good & easy thing to add... |
| |||