Rearranging the posting icons in the stream.
By Alex Boyd on Thursday, 29 October 2015
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Hi

Not sure if the title makes it clear, I want to be able to rearrange the posting icons when a user is posting something to their stream.

Currently the order is 'post update', 'create event', 'share files', 'share links', 'share photos', 'polls', 'videos'

What I would like is 'post update', 'share photos', 'videos', 'share files', 'create event', 'share links', 'polls'.

Reason being is that when looking at the stream from a mobile screen, which most of my visitors do, they can only see the first three listed, and I am getting complaints from users who are trying to use the 'share files' tab to upload a photo and being rejected with message that it is an invalid file format.

I am guessing that is is just a matter of moving some code around, but I don't want to go and start looking without some advice first please.

Many thanks
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Josh Lewis
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 08:46
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Hello Alex,

I'm sorry but it is not possible. It is not easy as moving some codes.
Nik Faris
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 10:27
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Could you please have this changed for the next update.

With mobile visitors outstripping pc users on nearly all social media platforms, having the tools easily available for users to use those social media platforms is becoming more important.

I am sure this would please many people who have a strong mobile user base.

Many thanks in advance
Alex Boyd
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 10:34
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When you say posting icons, do you mean stream filters? Or do you mean the icons that change the "post type" when updating your status? Your description above gives me evidence for both in terms of specifically what you are talking about.
Josh Lewis
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 11:04
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Hi Josh

I am talking about the icons that change the post type.

So when I update my status, I can choose to post a photo, a video, a file or just write an update.

Do you have any idea how to do this?

Thanks for replying
Alex Boyd
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:30
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Alex Boyd wrote:

Currently the order is 'post update', 'create event', 'share files', 'share links', 'share photos', 'polls', 'videos'


Seems to be different on my end in terms of order:
Josh Lewis
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 15:52
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Yes it does, how strange. There must be a way to change it then. See my screen shot attached.

Anyone from stack ideas want to shed some light on this?
Alex Boyd
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 17:03
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Hi Alex,

We are using css child selector in order to hide or show the icons in mobile view. You can try to copy my css code below and place it inside your custom css:
/* selector 5 is for photo */

div#fd.es.w320 .es-story-panel-buttons .es-story-panel-button:nth-child(5) {

    display: inline-block;

}


Take a look on my example here, http://screencast.com/t/idrSoRP1 . You can play around with the selector value to get your icons to show or hide.

Hope these help.
Ezrul Fazwan
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 19:57
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Hi

Thanks for the advice, sorry for being a bit stupid, I'm quite new to all this technical stuff!! But where do I find the custom css?
Alex Boyd
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Sunday, 01 November 2015 22:07
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Hey Alex,

Most of the time it depends on your Joomla template but most templates allows you to create a custom.css file in /templates/[TEMPLATE_NAME]/css/custom.css .

You should check this with the template vendor
Mark
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Sunday, 01 November 2015 23:30
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