Child board has new posts....show ON icon on index board?

[MJA]

How do I make it so that if someone posts in a child board, the ON icon shows up on the index board? This is for an online RPG and it would be nice to see at a glance which Kingdoms have new posts from the index page. You see, there are Kingdoms (parent boards) and Cities within them (child boards). I'm using a variation of the Classic theme, 1.1.2. Thanks!

[Peter Duggan]

Have you noticed that themes of more recent origin (like Babylon and the current default) have *two* 'on' icons (a full on.gif for new posts to the parent board and a kind of half on2.gif for new posts to child boards only)? Dunno if this helps, but you could always modify yours to do the same if it does.

[MJA]

Yes, I see that they have those. I don't know enough about coding to make it work on my board though. I was hoping for a solution that's not too difficult for my skill level. I don't want to mess everything up. hehe

[MJA]

No magic wand for me? Is there a part of the code in the Babylon or default which I could copy/paste into classic somewhere? I'm not sure what I'd need to alter.

[bloc]

There is..but first: is the classic theme unaltered? Is the html code unchanged for the BoardIndex.template.php inside classic theme folder?

[MJA]

I've added an additional menu button, added additional post icons, that kind of thing. I have the following mods installed:
Spam Me Not Mod
Award Mod
Custom Profile Field Mod

I haven't changed anything in BoardIndex.template.php

[MJA]

So what's the verdict? Is there a way to make it work with what I have setup?  

[MJA]

Sorry to be a pest. I'm still trying to find a solution. Anybody?

[青山 素子]

You will need to make a new image called "on2.gif" for this. It should go in the images folder for your theme. This image will indicate new posts in child boards.

WARNING: I haven't tested this, so make a backup copy of BoardIndex.template.php in case this doesn't work.

Find:

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<td class="windowbg" width="6%" align="center" valign="top"><img src="', $settings['images_url'], $board['new'] ? '/on.gif" alt="' . $txt[333] . '" title="' . $txt[333] : '/off.gif" alt="' . $txt[334] . '" title="' . $txt[334], '" border="0" /></td>


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<td class="windowbg" width="6%" align="center" valign="top">';

// If the board is new, show a strong indicator.
if ($board['new'])
echo '<img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/on.gif" alt="', $txt[333], '" title="', $txt[333], '" />';
// This board doesn't have new posts, but its children do.
elseif ($board['children_new'])
echo '<img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/on2.gif" alt="', $txt[333], '" title="', $txt[333], '" />';
// No new posts at all! The agony!!
else
echo '<img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/off.gif" alt="', $txt[334], '" title="', $txt[334], '" />';

echo '
</td>


[MJA]

That did it! Thank you so much.