XF 1.4 Custom Help Pages and New Profile Post Features

Today, we have a video showing upcoming improvements to the XenForo help system, and a new way to surface profile posts.

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My apologies for the sound quality, I'm hoping that some new audio gear will be arriving before I record the next one of these.

Just a reminder: Please do not post suggestions in this thread (even if you feel they are related). Use the dedicated suggestion forum so they can be tracked; suggestions made in this thread are unlikely to be implemented.

 

[Jeremy]

There goes my add-on.

 

[Russ]

Ah good ole videos

 

[DJ XtAzY]

Missed your voice and your vids XD. Time to procrastinate during work for a few minutes to watch this.

 

[Kier]

I should mention that there was serious debate in the staff room as to whether I should state that having custom help pages is pretty much the same as having a CMS...

 

[Eagle]

That is awesome! Thanks Kier!

 

[Russ]

Good to see this in there too

 

[Neutral Singh]

Wow! Neat and Intuitive!

 

[Sadik B]

Hi, how easy is it to remove or edit default Help pages? (The smilies, BBCode, Trophies etc.)

 

[Liam W]

Good to see this in there too

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I was going to mention that

There's almost always a sneak peak to other new features in these videos...

 

[Jeremy]

You will still need to edit templates, @sadikb, this doesn't manage the default pages. Just new ones.

 

[Pereira]

Some really nice improvements. The profile posts sidebar is great. It's the best implementation that I've seen of it so far.

 

[Markos]

I should mention that there was serious debate in the staff room as to whether I should state that having custom help pages is pretty much the same as having a CMS...

Yeah, the new system is very powerful (i'm also think that i would be easy for you to expand this feature into an article system).

My suggestion for the help page is to allow the possibility to use BB Code in Help Pages.

 

[Sadik B]

You will still need to edit templates, @sadikb, this doesn't manage the default pages. Just new ones.

I see. Not that it's a big deal but most people would kinda expect to be able to change the default ones also.

 

[JamesBrown]

I came here tonight to specifically ask about adding to the help page. So glad I saw this video before I posted..... Roll on 1.4

 

[Jeremy]

I see. Not that it's a big deal but most people would kinda expect to be able to change the default ones also.

You can already do that with templates & phrases, they just aren't on one page together (which is what I'm assuming you want). Without seeing the code, Mike & Kier would essentially have to send the default pages to be custom or modify how this system works to handle the default ones.

 

[erich37]

cool



that "Profile Posts"-Tab reminds me of this:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/tabs-for-recent-activity.51552/

 

[Sadik B]

Yeah. I don't see the point of having the default pages. Just use the new help system for ALL pages.

 

[Chris D]

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...der-default-help-pages-in-the-admin-cp.78322/

I made a suggestion.

 

[Jeremy]

At least one of the default pages is required by EU law.