[ABD] [3.1] [pre]fixed - Topic Prefixes extension

[tbackoff]

Couple of thoughts with my first few minutes of playing with it.

• As watisnf.nl stated, it is not possible to add prefixes to new topics.
• You must edit the first post to add a prefix, and clicking "Preview" doesn't show the prefix prepended.
• The blue boxes are not very user-friendly (you mentioned about having something better, so I'm not too concerned). Have you thought about a dropdown list?
• I believe you mentioned this before, but I'll restate it - it would be nice if we could click the groups and forums we want the prefix to be allowed.
• Prefixes in viewforum and search results? Possibility to search by prefix?

[imkingdavid]

Couple of thoughts with my first few minutes of playing with it.

• As watisnf.nl stated, it is not possible to add prefixes to new topics.
• You must edit the first post to add a prefix, and clicking "Preview" doesn't show the prefix prepended.

Good catch. I had just been testing with editing a topic. I'll need to add the ability to "add" prefixes on new topics, and I'll need to make changes persist when preview is pressed.

• The blue boxes are not very user-friendly (you mentioned about having something better, so I'm not too concerned). Have you thought about a dropdown list?

Is drag-and-drop bad UI? I'm not very good with user-experience stuff, but I would think that simple click-drag-drop is easier than having to click a dropdown before you can even see the list. And onceI have the dropdown, what happens when I select a prefix? In my TMM modification, I think I'm using either a multi-select box or checkboxes (I can't remember which) but I'm wanting to be able to allow users to control the order in which the prefixes appear, so it can't just be a static list.

I'm open to suggestions on how to best present this, but I assumed drag and drop would be the most user-friendly way, though the current presentation is admittedly lacking.

• I believe you mentioned this before, but I'll restate it - it would be nice if we could click the groups and forums we want the prefix to be allowed.
• Prefixes in viewforum and search results? Possibility to search by prefix?

Viewforum is implemented, pending a couple of template events. Search results and other places that list topics will come shortly after.
Search, sort, filter, etc. by prefix is probably not going to make it in the first version, though it is something I'd like to add eventually. I had it somewhat working on a development version of TMM but I haven't looked at that in forever and implementation will be different in an extension anyway.

Thanks for looking it over. Looks like I've got my work cut out for me.

EDIT: I have added GitHub Issues to my repository. If you can think of improvements, it would be great to discuss them each individually there instead of cluttering this topic, which should be more for the broader discussion of the extension. https://github.com/imkingdavid/prefixed/issues Thanks!

[tbackoff]

• The blue boxes are not very user-friendly (you mentioned about having something better, so I'm not too concerned). Have you thought about a dropdown list?

Is drag-and-drop bad UI? I'm not very good with user-experience stuff, but I would think that simple click-drag-drop is easier than having to click a dropdown before you can even see the list. And onceI have the dropdown, what happens when I select a prefix? In my TMM modification, I think I'm using either a multi-select box or checkboxes (I can't remember which) but I'm wanting to be able to allow users to control the order in which the prefixes appear, so it can't just be a static list.

I'm open to suggestions on how to best present this, but I assumed drag and drop would be the most user-friendly way, though the current presentation is admittedly lacking.

Actually, now that I've played with it more, I actually kinda like it, so just ignore me. I would suggest that the boxes have titles above them. Something like "Available prefixes" and "Prefixes applied to this topic" (or however you want to word it).

[imkingdavid]

Yeah, that would probably be a good idea. I've added an issue for it. Let me know if you can think of anything else. Of course, at least for early versions, the idea is to be lightweight but functional, and user-friendliness is a plus (though I'm not very good with design/presentation).

[imkingdavid]

As an update, I have figured out that for new topics I am unable to get the topic ID within the events that are currently available. I have requested a new event to be added inside submit_post() so that I can get the information I need. Until that is done, prefixes on new topics will not work. However, I have fixed the issue with it clearing prefixes when you use preview (this has not been merged at the time of this post, but there's a fix in development).

[hd321kbps]

cyrillic not work

[imkingdavid]

cyrillic not work

I hadn't thought to test with non-Latin characters. I'll make sure this is fixed by the time the first version is released. Thanks!

[Jessica]

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong..the prefixes aren't appearing in the forum created

http://chenschool.elementfx.com/ascraeu ... e=post&f=2

Where do I add the prefix? I created one called [Test]

[tbackoff]

It is not possible to add prefixes to new topics last I checked (known bug).

[Jessica]

Oh I completely forgot about that bug. Makes sense now. Thanks >_<

[imkingdavid]

Correct, right now I'm waiting on some template events to be merged, but we're in discussion about the best way to go about it. The PHP event I needed for grabbing the topic prefix was merged so that part is implemented, it just won't show up in the template until the template event is made available.

[Raul [ThE KuKa]]

Spanish language complete for this Extension.

[imkingdavid]

Thanks. I'll add it when I get the chance!

[regazer]

Hello, I've made german translations ( de, de_x_sie ).

deutsche Sprachdateien

EDIT: new download address

[imkingdavid]

Thanks!

However, to anyone else who wants to translate this extension, I'd recommend waiting an RC release in case I end up making changes to specific wording or if I add or remove language entries. I'll try to leave some time between RC releases and the final release so that there is enough time to make sure the translations are complete.

I appreciate the help!