Extra and Addons

[GregChapman]

Hi Team,

In relation to:
http://nabble-support.1.n2.nabble.com/Extras-amp-Add-ons-td6670615.html

I've got the new page at:
http://www.gregafloat.plus.com/blog/index.html



but not at:
http://www.seahawk17.plus.com/forum.htm



Is the new feature still being rolled out or have I found a bug?

[mywaytoo]

Are you in the outermost layer of Nabble?

[Peter <Nabble>]

Sometimes updates are made to different servers at different times but most probably it is a cache issue. Wait some more and it will be rolled out to the other forum as well.

[GregChapman]

Looks like it was a roll-out issue. Now fixed!



The alarming thing before was that all the other options under "Application" had gone missing, so clearly one aspect of the roll-out had been implemented, but not all.

[GregChapman]

BTW:

On the News app at:

http://nabble-support.1.n2.nabble.com/Nabble-Latest-Features-f1559156.html

your posts always include a thumbnail, but frequently no image appears within the body of the post. How do you achieve that?

(I realise that a thumbnail is generated from the first image within a post, but have not discovered a way to hide the only image included in the post.)

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Hi Greg, the extras and add-ons are features that you can only install in your whole Nabble app. For example, you can't install those features only in a specific sub-forum. This is why that menu option is available only at the root app. Is this an issue for you? Which feature(s) do you think should be partially installable?

GregChapman wrote

your posts always include a thumbnail, but frequently no image appears within the body of the post. How do you achieve that?

(I realise that a thumbnail is generated from the first image within a post, but have not discovered a way to hide the only image included in the post.)

Yes, there is a simple trick you can use for that. Just wrap the image tag with this:

<div style="display:none">
    ...image tag...
</div>

One approach is to simply add the style="display:none" property to the image tag directly.

[GregChapman]

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

Hi Greg, the extras and add-ons are features that you can only install in your whole Nabble app. For example, you can't install those features only in a specific sub-forum. This is why that menu option is available only at the root app. Is this an issue for you? Which feature(s) do you think should be partially installable?

The original SeaHawk Forum image was taken from the root level, as you can tell from the posting dates, so it really did seem to be a temporary roll-out glitch. I've not considered the root-only concern. It's not an issue for me.

Yes, there is a simple trick you can use for that. Just wrap the image tag with this:

<div style="display:none">
    ...image tag...
</div>

One approach is to simply add the style="display:none" property to the image tag directly.

Silly me! Why didn't I think of that! Must have been the late night last night! :-)

[GregChapman]

GregChapman wrote

Silly me! Why didn't I think of that! Must have been the late night last night! :-)

And now, after another late night, I realise why!

I would have assumed that hiding it on the main page would have prevented it appearing as a thumbnail as well!

Nevertheless, a good trick. Thanks for the info!

[Hugo <Nabble>]

GregChapman wrote

I would have assumed that hiding it on the main page would have prevented it appearing as a thumbnail as well!

Your thought here makes a lot of sense, really. The only reason this trick works is because we parse the message to find the first image. So the parser is blind to other tags and the image is always found ;-)