Legacy Couple questions

[Webbstre]

Just curious, as it's been said there is a new version coming out in the next few weeks, but will the new version support these kinds of links?

forumdisplay.php?{session.sessionurl}do=markread&markreadhash={userinfo.securitytoken}

That's the mark forums read link from the Navigation Manager in 4.2. If I could implement links like those it'd make it easier to customize.

And while I've got you, did you ever have any luck in figuring out how to add those little Links below the Navigation Tabs while keeping the tab in a Dropdown menu?

Thanks as always

 

[Ozzy47]

With 4.2 the navtabs system is just a addon to the existing Navigation Manager, so if they don't allow those type of links then I don't know if I can do anything about it.

With the dropdowns I have not even been able to get a dropdown tab to work, so no not at this time.

I am looking into both issues though to see what I can do.

 

[Webbstre]

I actually copied the above code from the link in the Navigation manager, so I guess it works Any rough guess on when we can expect the update? I might put off my site update until then, just to save myself trouble later.

 

[Ozzy47]

I am hoping by Friday, and having the rest of the team looking into the additional navbars it seems like it may not be possible to show them on the cms page.

 

[Webbstre]

I've got two navbars on my 4.2 cms now... why wouldn't more than one be possible after updating? :/

 

[Ozzy47]

Done by a mod or hard coded?

If it is done by a mod are you sure you reverted your navbar template after upgrading to 4.2?

 

[Webbstre]

From memory I think I just installed the latest Dragonbyte MMO theme and it just worked. I MIGHT have done the template edit to add the extra code, as per the directions, but I don't remember offhand.

 

[Ozzy47]

Could you paste the contents of your navbar template here so I could see it?

 

[Webbstre]

No problem! This is the default navbar template for Dragonbyte MMO, Standard View, without the CMS or Blog templates even imported (though it still works if you import them):

<div class="nav_area">
<div class="custom_navigation"> <div class="custom_navigation_right"> <div class="custom_navigation_bg">
<div id="navbar" class="navbar"  style="position:absolute; top:20px; left:0px; background:none;">
<div style="padding-left:25px; padding-right:25px;">
	<ul id="navtabs" class="navtabs floatcontainer<vb:if condition="$show['member'] AND $notifications_total"> notify</vb:if>" style="background:none;">
		{vb:raw template_hook.navtab_start}
		{vb:raw navigation}
		{vb:raw template_hook.navtab_end}
	</ul>
	<vb:if condition="$vboptions['enablesearches']">
		<div id="globalsearch" class="globalsearch">
			<form action="search.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=process" method="post" id="navbar_search" class="navbar_search">
				<vb:comment><input type="hidden" name="s" value="{vb:raw session.sessionurl}" /></vb:comment>
				<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="{vb:raw bbuserinfo.securitytoken}" />
				<input type="hidden" name="do" value="process" />
				<span class="textboxcontainer"><span><input type="text" value="" name="query" class="textbox" tabindex="99"/></span></span>
				<span class="buttoncontainer"><span><input type="image" class="searchbutton" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/search<vb:if condition="$stylevar['textdirection'] == 'rtl'">_rtl</vb:if>.<vb:if condition="is_browser('ie') AND !is_browser('ie', 7)">gif<vb:else />png</vb:if>" name="submit" onclick="document.getElementById('navbar_search').submit;" tabindex="100"/></span></span>
			</form>
			<ul class="navbar_advanced_search">
				<li><a href="search.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" accesskey="4">{vb:rawphrase advanced_search}</a></li>
				{vb:raw template_hook.navbar_advanced_search}
			</ul>
		</div>
	</vb:if>
</div>
</div>
</div></div></div></div>

<!-- start navbar2 -->
    <vb:if condition="$vboptions['dbtech_vbnavtabs_navbar2']">
        <div class="custom_navigation2" style="position:relative !important;"> <div class="custom_navigation_right2"> <div class="custom_navigation_bg2">
        <div id="navbar2" class="navbar" style="position:absolute; top:20px; left:0px;">
            <ul id="navtabs2" class="navtabs navtabs2 floatcontainer" style="background:none; padding-left:25px; padding-right:25px; border-bottom:{vb:stylevar navbar_tab_border};">
                                    {vb:raw template_hook.navtab_two} <div style="clear:both;"> </div>
            </ul>
        </div></div></div></div>
    </vb:if>
<!-- end navbar2 -->

<div id="breadcrumb" class="breadcrumb">
	<ul class="floatcontainer">
		<li class="navbithome"><a href="index.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}" accesskey="1"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/navbit-home.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase home}" /></a></li>
		{vb:raw navbits.breadcrumb}
		{vb:raw navbits.lastelement}
	</ul>
	<hr />
</div>

<div class="welcomearea">
    <div class="welcome_right">
         <div class="welcome_padding">

  <div class="welcome_image">
    <img src="images/dragonbyte_mmogaming/_custom/welcome_intro.gif" alt />
  </div>

  <h3> Hello and Welcome Member </h3>
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam aliquam pharetra nunc. Etiam arcu lectus, aliquet scelerisque molestie vel, blandit eu libero. Maecenas non felis eros, non consequat tellus. Aliquam non imperdiet ligula. Etiam sit amet sapien id lacus blandit blandit. Sed fringilla egestas orci, ac faucibus orci dignissim vitae. Quisque eget eros quis nisi porttitor fringilla ac id sem. Morbi id massa eget dolor luctus consectetur vel vel tortor. Nulla ut lectus lectus. <br/><br/>

Ut non porttitor nulla. Nullam purus sapien, dictum non luctus ac, posuere ac dui. Donec auctor condimentum libero in eleifend. Cras sit amet sem sed arcu facilisis auctor in sed leo. Curabitur lacus libero, ullamcorper ac aliquam vitae, 

         </div>
     </div> 
</div>


{vb:raw ad_location.ad_navbar_below}
{vb:raw ad_location.global_below_navbar}

<div class="body_wrapper">

 

[Ozzy47]

Yeah that is something he coded specifically for that style, and it is using the old hooks for vBNavTabs. The new version for vb4.2 is a completely different system from the 4.1.x system.

Believe me I am doing all I can to get it to work on 4.2
In 4.2 vBNavTabs does not have a separate page for adding tabs and links, it is using the Navigation Manager to do that.

 

[Webbstre]

I had no idea, I must have changed to the Dragonbyte MMO theme at exactly the right time

Just a thought though, since I prefer your modification over vbulletin's new system: Why not revamp the navbar completely? For the next X.0 version of vbNavTabs I mean. You could implement these things that people ask for, like the independent sublinks or extra navigation bars. You could even let people skin their navbar however they want, so even if they are using the default vbulletin theme they could make their site's menu look unique. Rather than force integration with an inferior system... Not sure how you'd import the tabs that come with various products though.

 

[Cosmic]

Believe me, if it were that simple we'd love to. Messing with the navbar is delicate business though since, as you mention above, making sure other stuff will still work with it is the hard part. We do have some new features in the 4.2 version though .

Cosmic

 

[Ozzy47]

The new version is out for vB4.2 so all should be good to go now.