In recent videos, you will have seen me using the new Admin Control Panel search system in XenForo 1.1. This video takes you on a little tour of the ACP search system, and then gives a little tutorial aimed at helping add-on developers create ACP search modules for their own XenForo add-ons.
It also serves as an example of why I should not record 'Have You Seen' videos at 2am.
Have you seen...?
This forum spotlights some of XenForo's interesting features. Spotlights on features in upcoming releases will be posted here.
XenForo 1.1 brings with it a powerful system to record and display daily statistics about your forum and its related data. This video shows you how.
The search system for XenForo 1.1 has had some attention, and now includes the ability to include members in search results, adds profile posts to the search index and allows more control over where to search, including one constraint that has been (extremely) frequently requested ever since we first developed the search system.
Following on from our previous video about thread prefixes, this video shows some more prefix-related functionality.
This isn't so much a 'have you seen this feature' post as one that goes some way to explaining why interacting with XenForo is such an immediate, pleasurable experience.
The following is screen-grabbed from Google Webmaster Tools.
One of the first 'Have You Seen...' videos we posted showed our attachment uploader in action, and went on to demonstrate how pictures could be quickly and easily inserted into messages.
However, the system at the time could only handle a single image being uploaded at once.
Not any more. :)
You've already seen how style properties provide a quick, easy, flexible and extensible way to control the appearance and behaviour of your styles.
In this video, you'll see them at work again, this time working directly on element appearance and styling. The demo touches on our use of the color palette (which is of course extensible in its own right) and shows some basic use of our CSS editor.
Enjoy!
As usual, this is a large, HD video. View it at full size using the expand gadget in the bottom right of the movie frame.
A question came up following my previous video 'Playing with Color' about what happens when you use the Revert controls for the color palette.
This video aims to explain what they do, and why - with a little detour around Style Inheritance.
Everybody loves quick reply. Most forum software has implemented it in some form these days, but it tends to be lacking some functionality that means you often have to drag yourself back to the full editor page to achieve what you want, especially when it comes to attaching files to your messages.
XenForo allows you to upload files and place uploaded images into your posts right from the quick reply box when you're viewing a thread, you can then submit your message and it will be added to the discussion instantly.
... without ever leaving the page or opening a separate browser window.
I suggest you view this video at full-size by clicking the full-screen gadget in the bottom-right of the video.
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In the beginning, dates next to content on the internet were ugly things. We used to see date/time strings like 07-29-2010 16:31 and that would be it.
Then, options were added to allow administrators to specify a date/time format, and you could see output such as 4:31pm, Thursday June 29th 2010.
Later still, it was possible to output times relative to the present, so one could see dates like 3 minutes ago or Yesterday at 6:15pm.
However, these relative dates can be nasty when it comes to anything that is going to cache the page output. If a search engine slurps up the page, its cache is going to forever be wrong, as it will be locked at 3 minutes ago even when the content is weeks old. This can also be a problem for long threads. By...
Please note this is an early build, and things might still change between now and 'gold' release.
And that the steps of uploading the files and downloading the config.php has been skipped.
XenForo has always allowed members to switch the visibility of their online status, allowing them to browse without announcing their presence to other visitors. However, there are times when a person who normally browses in visible mode might want to quickly switch to invisible mode for a short time.
Normally, this would involve a trip to the Privacy Settings editor, but it's now possible to switch the system on and off instantly with a single click in your visitor menu.
When reading a quoted a message, one often wants to go and read the original message in order to get the context of the posts around it.
XenForo enhances this functionality by detecting whether or not the quoted message is on the same page as the one you are viewing, and animating a move from the quote to the original message, so you get an idea of how many messages are inbetween the two and other visual cues.
You can see it in action here:
http://xenforo.com/community/posts/1107/
Click the little up arrow on that post, after 'Kier Said' to see the effect.
