Prefix Essentials featuring auto expiring prefixes and prefix filtering [Paid] 2.5.4
- Thread starter Stuart Wright
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nice addon 
one thing i noticed which seems missing however....
"Show Prefix group above the node list for filtering" works on main forum home page only, and not on individual forum category pages
so its main page, or thread lists....nothing in between.....
can you fix that please? it will be a much better tool then...i am not sure if it is a bug or why it isnt working for us
thank you
one thing i noticed which seems missing however....
"Show Prefix group above the node list for filtering" works on main forum home page only, and not on individual forum category pages
so its main page, or thread lists....nothing in between.....
can you fix that please? it will be a much better tool then...i am not sure if it is a bug or why it isnt working for us
thank you
I noticed it doesnt display the prefix groups in forum view (with the thread lists). Was little disappointed. It would be really useful if you could allow "Show Prefix group above the thread list" @Stuart Wright
Using XF 2.1
Using XF 2.1
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Stuart Wright
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I assume you're talking about showing the prefix groups in the individual forum pages showing the list of threads? How would that work?
Seems more useful to show all the prefixes so you can quickly click them to filter by them.
So no, it has only ever displayed the groups on the forum list 'home page'.
I see this option
"Show Prefix group above the thread list for filtering"
What does this do?
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Stuart Wright
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Doesn't show prefix group menu like it says it would.It shows your prefixes above your thread lists (where you can filter them by clicking them). Enable it and visit a node that uses prefixes and you'll see them at the top of your threads.
You have not taken my question in the right context. If you see the flow of posts, you will notice what I meant. I want it to do what the description says. @Xon your comments?
Anyways, I have uninstalled this addon. @Stuart Wright I have sent you a pm on m2n.
imno007
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Well, one might wonder why, if you ask what seems a simple, direct question, I should have to read a bunch of previous comments to be sure I know exactly what you're asking. I mean, if you already knew what the option did, why ask?
I think you're getting hung up on the wording of the options. I can understand this to some extent, because the options being named exactly the same might lead one to believe they do exactly the same thing. But if you think about it, they actually do do what they say: they both filter prefixes by group, or show prefix groups for filtering, however you want to put it. The difference is that the ones on the forum list sort by prefix group for the entire site, whereas the ones on nodes filter by prefix group only for the node. So the former is sorted with drop-down menus because, presumably, there could be a lot more prefixes to sort and they have to be accommodated in limited space; and the latter, because presumably there will be a lot less of them, can simply be spread out across the top of threads, giving users the easiest access to them in a visually pleasing style. (Plus, there's the filtering menu in nodes where you can pick multiple prefixes to filter by if you have Xon's multi-prefix addon.) I suppose he could rename the forum list option to something like, "Show Prefix group above the forum list for site-wide filtering" and the the threads option to something like, "Show Prefix group above the thread list for node-only filtering" and that would be that.
EDIT: Or, I'll give you this, it might be better for him just to remove the word "group" from the second option, because prefixes used on a node might belong to various XF prefix groups - as opposed to just using the word in the more general sense of grouping things together.
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Stuart Wright
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This works on 2.1.
Tooltip? Might be a simple template edit. I wouldn't know how, though.
The thousands thing should be a quick fix @Xon?
I haven't seen that problem. Can you link to an example of where it happens, please?
Don't know, sorry. I'm not a Xenforo coder. @Xon?
Again, I have no idea, sorry.
It should read Show prefix above the node list for filteringnice addon
one thing i noticed which seems missing however....
"Show Prefix group above the node list for filtering" works on main forum home page only, and not on individual forum category pages
so its main page, or thread lists....nothing in between.....
can you fix that please? it will be a much better tool then...i am not sure if it is a bug or why it isnt working for us
thank you
I'll get @Xon to fix that, sorry.
I can ask what's involved in having it do that as an option.
actually...i prefer the "prefix group" dropdowns over individual prefixes like in the thread list view page.....which i also like as is....
what i would like to see improved tho is that clicking on a "sub category" i.e. a forum with other forums inside it, but not the main page...should also list the prefix group dropdown menu....right now it is vacant on only this view page.....
This should be a simple template edit.
Add this before the
$prefixUsageCount usage;
Code:
<xf:set var="$prefixUsageCount" value="{{ $prefixUsageCount|number }}" />If you are using MultiPrefix, this implies some threads don't have their prefix links working properly. I've got an XF1 script which fixes any missing links, but I haven't yet ported it to XF2.
The list of prefixes is only populated when viewing the forum list. Converting to using a widget would fix this, but requires time.
Should work
Will look into fixing that
