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| Arrogant | Sep 27 2014, 12:05 PM Post #1 |
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I think this was a great idea and I'm glad you added it, Brandon, but it's pretty lackluster at the moment. How about making it similar to the custom profile fields instead and allowing us to enable/disable them on a per-forum basis? I think that would add far greater flexibility and control, as well as making it a bit more organized than it is right now. It'd also allow administrators to use the same field setup for multiple forums instead of just copying/pasting it for each forum in their individual settings. Just a suggestion, that's all. Thanks for the upgrade/update regardless. |
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| HIRP | Oct 3 2014, 02:06 AM Post #2 |
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This is a great feature but could use some work (I basically came here to say this, but saw that a thread was already up). The ability to create multiple custom fields for threads is going to be required to make it useful in my opinion. |
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| Kankuro | Oct 3 2014, 08:02 PM Post #3 |
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I find it quite useful as it is. I don't see the need to modify it at all. Especially not as a root feature. If you feel it's lacking go request a 3rd party code. I'm currently using it as a sort of prefix. Anime section = Genres Movies = Genres Suggestions = Suggestion Types Certain game forums = which game from the series etc. |
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| Arrogant | Oct 3 2014, 08:09 PM Post #4 |
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It's great that you were able to find some uses for it, but there are improvements that would make it even better. Currently, you can only use dropdowns. They work quite well, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to have users enter just plain text as well, or even a larger amount of text in a textarea. There's also the problem that they're stuck inside forum settings. I know it works, and you seem to be alright with how it's setup currently, but it'd be FAR easier to manage and organize if you were able to create those custom thread fields on a separate page and then tick the ones you want in the forum settings for each forum (in a similar manner to custom profile fields, only suited to this specific purpose instead). As for creating a code to do these things: why? Some features are meant for codes, that's certainly true, but this is going to be a core feature of ZetaBoards. It should be improved by Brandon instead of having admins rely on 3rd party codes (which don't work all that well for things like this because you need to be able to store the data somewhere for all to see -- your only options currently are thread title and description, taking character length away from those two fields in the process). Edited by Arrogant, Oct 3 2014, 08:34 PM.
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| Ferby | Oct 4 2014, 10:29 AM Post #5 |
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I actually really like that idea. But using a `textarea` may be pushing it a bit
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| Kankuro | Oct 4 2014, 11:24 AM Post #6 |
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I agree with the text for most people. But I like the dropdown personally since it forces members to use certain options. Which is perfect for the reason I'm using them. So maybe allow us to choose if we want a dropdown menu or a textarea. |
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