Customising the layout with custom user fields

[Paul B]

Brogan submitted a new resource:

Customising the layout with custom user fields - Now you see it ...

This is a simple guide explaining how custom user fields can be used to customise the layout and allow members to have some form of control over the content, depending on the options you provide.

For the purposes of this guide, we will be creating a checkbox for members to opt out of seeing the forum statistics in the sidebar.

Read more about this resource...

 

[kelle67]

Hi Brogan

I have created an html widget and let the members themselves choose whether they want to see it or not.
Thanks to your instructions, it was easy going.

I show the widget in the forums and in the thread overview.



I want to hide the widget for guests. Can I combine different display conditions in one widget?

And if so, what is the display condition to hide a widget for guests?

 

[Paul B]

To only show a widget to logged in members it's $xf.visitor.user_id.

You can combine conditionals:

• OR / || - used to link alternative conditions
• AND / && - used to link additional conditions

 

[kelle67]

Thank you.

 

[Masetrix]

Hi @Brogan,

can you bring the function of the search forums to a similarly illustrative example of function and application?

 

[Paul B]

I don't understand what it is you are asking.

 

[Masetrix]

I don't understand what it is you are asking.

Hi Brogan, sorry for this ..
I mean a tutorial like you created here, just for the use of search forums.

 

[beerForo]

Search forums use the same criteria as the batch update threads in acp. It's a public search display of the results.

 

[deslocotoco]

The tutorial is great.

But i always have some difficulty to apply the conditional statements on XenForo, shame on me.

What i want to do is to give a permission, using the custom user fields, to the user choose to show/hide their postbit statistics to the public.

Is basically the contrary of the code in the display condition:

!$xf.visitor.Profile.custom_fields.removeStatistics

Any tips? And sorry for the trouble.

EDIT for testing: Something like that?

$xf.visitor.message-userExtras.custom_fields.isMemberOf(2).HidePostBit

 

[Paul B]

You would need to edit the template and wrap the content you want hide/show with a conditional statement using the full <xf:if syntax.

 

[deslocotoco]

You would need to edit the template and wrap the content you want hide/show with a conditional statement using the full <xf:if syntax.

Interesting. I was thinking that using the message-userExtras was enough as a wrap in the display condition.

 

[Wildcat Media]

I will have to do some experimenting with this in templates. I have some style modifications to make, where I want users to be able to customize the view themselves. This will come in handy, provided the !$xf.visitor.Profile.custom_fields variable is available in the templates I want to use. (I will have to dump the variables to find out.)

 

[alternadiv]

Is it possible to create a new account preferences page to hold these custom fields? For example, you could have a "Website Customization" page with a whole bunch of these custom fields listed. Can that be done without an add-on?

 

[Paul B]

It would require custom development.

 

[cwe]

* bump *

I want to create a Custom User Field that is a multiple choice (either drop down selection or radio buttons). Assuming I create a field named graphs and have 3 choices and set the values from 0 to 2, what would the display condition need to be to target one of the specific values?

I plan to create 3 different widgets and each one would only display if the corresponding choice was made for graphs.

 

[cwe]

I figured it out. I used (for example):

$xf.visitor.user_id AND $xf.visitor.Profile.custom_fields.graphs==2

I assume that having $xf.visitor.user_id in there is superfluous when I'm testing for .graphs>0 but might be necessary when I'm testing for .graphs==0

 

[Wildcat Media]

If I wanted to use this in a template, would I be using something like this? I'm looking to offer a toggle to hide the "node extras" (last post information) on our main forum page. No issues setting up the custom field. Just not sure if this is the correct template syntax.

<xf:if is="$xf.visitor.user_id AND $xf.visitor.Profile.custom_fields.hideNodeExtras">
....my template stuff...
</xf:if>

I tried it as-is and it's not working. Field ID is correct.

 

[Wildcat Media]

I tried it as-is and it's not working.

Now I'm thinking that template syntax doesn't work in extra.less ...

EDIT: Also doesn't work in my own .less template, yet conditionals work for "properties" pulled from selections in Style Properties, as I found .less templates with conditionals referring to those.

Guess what I want to do is not possible without extensive work.

 

[Paul B]

IF statements of that nature don't work in less templates.

 

[PhineasD]

How can I display the thread custom fields in a widget with same thread position?
Thx.