Other Is there a "Garage" add-on like this one?

[Wildcat Media]

I'm over at one of Verticalscope's automotive forums, and they have a new tab in the user profile where we can add vehicles to our profile.



This is mainly textual, but allows users to upload an image. (Something I wouldn't particularly want, unless we could limit images to one per item.)



Here's the twist. I don't really want a garage, but a flexible feature where I could let users enter various parts of a "build" or "system" and optionally upload an image. (As an example, think of a computer build. A member could enter details about the motherboard, memory, video card, SSDs, case, etc. in fields we define.) We would define which fields we want to offer for members to fill in. Optionally, we could offer a textarea where they could fill in their system information free-form.

We would need a link to the member's "garage" in the usercard or postbit, but I could easily code that in myself.

I looked at @Bob's Showcase but it is not quite what we want--we have no need to display these publicly, other than if someone clicks on the Vehicles (or whatever we'd call it) tab in the profile. But I'd have to try a demo of it to see if it could do what we want.

So my question is...has anyone ever seen this type of add-on for XF? I tried a few searches but it's hard to search for something when there are no concrete words I could use to find what I'm looking for.

TIA!

 

[Matt C.]

Totally custom. I'm personally not aware of any published add-on that does that.

Here's the twist. I don't really want a garage, but a flexible feature where I could let users enter various parts of a "build" or "system" and optionally upload an image. (As an example, think of a computer build. A member could enter details about the motherboard, memory, video card, SSDs, case, etc. in fields we define.) We would define which fields we want to offer for members to fill in. Optionally, we could offer a textarea where they could fill in their system information free-form.

Also yeah, I've been wanting something like that for a while too. Showcase has the option for custom user fields where users can enter their information. I did something like that a while back:



On my current forum, I just have the option of adding a custom profile tab.

 

[fords8]

So you want a list of parts that people are going to use when they do a build? This would be the free form part of it. If you want a system that you select say a cam and you want it to auto pick a intake and carb for you. That would be great, but crazy to build into an addon. Whole lot of pulling from places to get it to work. Not sure you could find all of it.

Showcase could be use for the free form deal. Just have to do a bit to it. You could do HTML pages and build that out. But it would be huge by the time you were done I think.

@Bob likes doing car/sport addons.

 

[Digital Doctor]

modified Snog Forms ?

 

[fords8]

modified Snog Forms ?

Could work with a lot of work. I was talking XF pages. Still a ton of work.

EDIT: I was going to build something like this for my speed forum. I just have not started it yet.

 

[AndyB]

You might like this add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/build-thread-banner.9809/

 

[Wildcat Media]

So you want a list of parts that people are going to use when they do a build?

The car parts analogy is a good one.

Another analogy might be a room with furniture. Each room would be its own entity, where you could list the furniture and accessories for each room within.

On my current forum, I just have the option of adding a custom profile tab.

That is a possibility, although we would need more than one textarea for each entity.

I have it set up to use custom profile fields, but that kind of buries things in the profile. Having these specific custom fields in their own tab in each member's profile is what we're after.

 

[fords8]

I would for sure contact @Bob about this. He's awesome to work with and is very helpful. And his addons are pretty great and flexible.

 

[Wildcat Media]

Curious as to why you still cannot use showcase.

It is way overkill for what we need. We just need some configurable text fields in a separate tab in the profile, basically.

Having read the responses here, and the lack of any existing add-on that will do what I need, I'll stick with using custom fields and letting members find the info on their own. It's not that important where I'm going to get anything custom-developed.

 

[Matt C.]

It is way overkill for what we need. We just need some configurable text fields in a separate tab in the profile, basically.

Having read the responses here, and the lack of any existing add-on that will do what I need, I'll stick with using custom fields and letting members find the info on their own. It's not that important where I'm going to get anything custom-developed.

If you just want the information on a user profile tab, that doesn't seem that difficult to develop. It's basically just an entity with some abstract custom fields that can be displayed in the user profile. I could probably do it or @fords8 could do it if he wanted to.

 

[fords8]

If you just want the information on a user profile tab, that doesn't seem that difficult to develop. It's basically just an entity with some abstract custom fields that can be displayed in the user profile. I could probably do it or @fords8 could do it if he wanted to.

We could try to co-dev if you wanted.
But yeah @Matt C. or I could have a go at it. If you don't think Showcase is right for you.

 

[Alpha1]

has anyone ever seen this type of add-on for XF?

Go to the main page of the addon and check the page source code for things like data-template="
This may give you the developer and addon name.

By the looks of it is sort of IMS with a function to initiate from profile.

Item Management System - Premium

IMS is designed for forum owners to provide an interface for their members to create an items database. Items can be rated/reviewed and there is a questions/answers interface. Supported XenForo Branch: XF 2.3 Available Unsupported XenForo Branches...

xenaddons.com

 

[Matt C.]

We could try to co-dev if you wanted.
But yeah @Matt C. or I could have a go at it. If you don't think Showcase is right for you.

I probably wouldn't co-dev with anyone. If I were to make it, it would be tailored to my forum and I would just offer it for anyone to use. @fords8 will probably be better if he's willing to make it and support it long term.

 

[chris TFF]

We are looking at developing something very similar but for farming - so would be a "shed" not a garage. Would @Bob 's showcase do this?

 

[Bob]

We are looking at developing something very similar but for farming - so would be a "shed" not a garage.

backyardchickens.com uses showcase for for basically that....

Items

Showcase index

www.backyardchickens.com

 

[Wildcat Media]

backyardchickens.com uses showcase for for basically that....

Items

Showcase index

www.backyardchickens.com

Is this the Review Management System, or Showcase?

The example I found is here:

Garage

A list of users' vehicles.

www.toyotanation.com

However, I think it might be similar to Showcase the more I look at it, and even the VS version doesn't exactly do what I want. If you click on that Garage link I posted, it appears to be a random assortment of garage items displayed similar to a gallery.

So I guess I really need something different anyway. Essentially, just a tab in a profile with the same type of information (a "system", custom fields for components, and possibly a photo), without the "gallery" aspect of it where everyone's items are jumbled together.

 

[Bob]

Is this the Review Management System, or Showcase?

Its Showcase with some minor templating customization, route filters and phrase changes to personalize the addon to his site and use case (either done by himself, Russ or I).

If that is a VS site, it is also Showcase. VS owns a corporate license for Showcase and uses it within their FORO platform (has for many years now). You can achieve that look without a single line of programming code, its all done via template edits (which Russ from Pixel Exit has done many custom layouts over the past 15 years).

 

[Wildcat Media]

If that is a VS site, it is also Showcase. VS owns a corporate license for Showcase and uses it within their FORO platform (has for many years now).

OK, that's good to know. Yes, ToyotaNation is a VS site, and a few others I visit in the automotive topic also have the Garage. I know that VS does some of their own coding--I once sent a message to one of their developers regarding their location lookup (fills in the location field with data from Google), and they mentioned that they developed it in-house.

I'm poking around their site a little more, and the only thing I wouldn't particularly need is having Garage be part of the forum's overall navigation (although I could put it in a menu somewhere). But having found a member with multiple vehicles in their garage, this might work for us. We actually don't even need photos, and I suspect many won't use them, but it still might be fun to try to get members to upload some photos of the systems they are featuring.

So the details of each vehicle are custom fields? (Orange arrow...is this a textarea field? I think we need freeform input like this.)

 

[tajhay]

OK, that's good to know. Yes, ToyotaNation is a VS site, and a few others I visit in the automotive topic also have the Garage. I know that VS does some of their own coding--I once sent a message to one of their developers regarding their location lookup (fills in the location field with data from Google), and they mentioned that they developed it in-house.

I'm poking around their site a little more, and the only thing I wouldn't particularly need is having Garage be part of the forum's overall navigation (although I could put it in a menu somewhere). But having found a member with multiple vehicles in their garage, this might work for us. We actually don't even need photos, and I suspect many won't use them, but it still might be fun to try to get members to upload some photos of the systems they are featuring.

So the details of each vehicle are custom fields? (Orange arrow...is this a textarea field? I think we need freeform input like this.)

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Yes you can remove showcase from navigation.
Yes you can add free form custom fields.

For example i use showcase for sports players i.e.

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It is highly customisable!

 

[Wildcat Media]

It is highly customisable!

Nice!

I'm not sure if Bob's Classifieds addon would work in our situation (as I'm looking to revamp that also), but I'm sending a few of our staff to look at the demo. I think Showcase may turn out to be what we need to display the types of "systems" we'd be focusing on. (They are looking at that also.)