By Tom Martin on Saturday, 30 November 2013
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Hello,

I've recently purchased EasySocial - One of the best components I've worked with so far

I have 2 questions I'm hoping I can get some help with;

1) I'm trying to create a similar layout as you have on the front page of your forum here (I have create a menu item, and selected Frontpage Layout for EasySocial). I have chosen the dark template and modified it a little but I notice on this forum, you only show the user avatar (with the users post details to the right), with the username popping up when you rollover it.

On my dark layout it shows the avatar, username, ranking and online/offline status when on category/front-page view. I want this information to be displayed when the user opens the post only, not on the post list/category view.

Is this possible using settings in the control panel of the component or is this a custom template you're using? If it is, I'd appreciate an example of what you've done to achieve this.

2) The "Who's Viewing" module only appears on posts on this forum - How do I set the module to show up only on posts? At the moment, it's published and so shows everywhere on the forum, like a normal published module.

If you could help me with this I'd appreciate it

Thanks
Hello Tom,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. Please find the answers to your inquiries below:


1) I'm trying to create a similar layout as you have on the front page of your forum here (I have create a menu item, and selected Frontpage Layout for EasySocial). I have chosen the dark template and modified it a little but I notice on this forum, you only show the user avatar (with the users post details to the right), with the username popping up when you rollover it.

On my dark layout it shows the avatar, username, ranking and online/offline status when on category/front-page view. I want this information to be displayed when the user opens the post only, not on the post list/category view.

Is this possible using settings in the control panel of the component or is this a custom template you're using? If it is, I'd appreciate an example of what you've done to achieve this.


Hm, did you mean EasyDiscuss? Not too sure which product are you referring to here because if you are referring to our forum, it's actually running on EasyDiscuss.


2) The "Who's Viewing" module only appears on posts on this forum - How do I set the module to show up only on posts? At the moment, it's published and so shows everywhere on the forum, like a normal published module.

The Who's viewing module is customized internally but you can add the codes below to ensure that the module only appears in the entry page.


if( JRequest::getVar( 'view' ) != 'post' )
{
return;
}
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Saturday, 30 November 2013 21:41
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Hi Mark,

Yes, sorry, I meant EasyDiscuss - Could you advise?

Thank you for the solution regarding the module.

Tom
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Sunday, 01 December 2013 03:14
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Ah, I see. Unfortunately that is not possible out of the box unless you customize your theme. What you see on our forum here is purely done by customizing the css. No other hacks done
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Sunday, 01 December 2013 03:39
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