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[dougiefresh]

Link to Mod

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[EL34]

Very Nice

I was used to the 1.1.19 admin menu with the full menu of items on the left side

I just upgraded my forum 1.1.19 forum to 2.0.7
The Admin menu in SMF 2 is horrible
I hate that everything is hidden and you have to hunt for menu items

The tabs and left menu items in your mod are great!

[dougiefresh]

Thanks....  I completely agree that SMF's admin area is a mess....  The admin area organization needs some love, too....

[EL34]

Thanks,
I am subscribed to this topic.
If you update your mod with some new items I"ll see it

[EL34]

Hi,
I uninstalled version 1 and installed version 2
My menu looks the same as version 1
I am using 2.0.7

Here's a screen shot of the installed packages screen

[Shambles]

^-- have you tried switching to a side-bar?

~ The sidebar menu has been modified, making all areas of a particular header and all subsections of a particular area, into menu items.

[EL34]

Where is that setting?

[Shambles]

Profile > Look & Layout

[EL34]

Profile?
Don't see that
Are we talking 2.0.7?

I frikin hate this 2.0.7 menu system
I can never find stuff

[Arantor]

Press the << button on the far right of the admin menu bar.

The dropdown menu would be less irritating if the ACP weren't a total mess in the first place anyway.

[EL34]

I am still lost
This is what my admin screen looks like

[Arantor]

Your first screenshot highlights the Main / Configuration / Forum / Members / Maintenance list of buttons. LOOK RIGHT OF THAT.

[EL34]

I figured out that the mod is not installed
I am looking at the install.xml file and the file mods never happened

I installed it on a test forum and it installed correctly
I am now in the process of manually installing the mod in the admin.php file

I'll be back in a bit

[Arantor]

The << is not part of the mod... seriously, try clicking that BEFORE doing anything else with the mod anyway.

[EL34]

It's working now

None of the find and replace actions actually happened, even though the mod said it was installed

When I tried to uninstall the mod, it was all warnings, meaning that none of the replacements and additions were actually found

So all is good now after looking at the working test forum files and the package-info.xml file

[dougiefresh]

I apologize about the late reply....  I've updated the first post (as well as the mod download page) with further information about this mod....

This mod replaces SMF's admin and moderator area dropdown and sidebar menus with a tabbed menu with sidebar.  Each sidebar group contains the sub-areas of each action....  Once the mod is installed, the << thingy disappears.  There is no option to change back to SMF's dropdown and/or sidebar menus once the mod is installed, although I don't think it would be impossible to add that back if there is a demand for it...

It's working now

I'm happy to hear that installation was successful, although I'm concerned that the package manager wasn't able to install it.  If you can't install other mods on your forum, you may want to check the permissions on your forum files....

FileZilla allows you to edit your forum files.  If you're editing the files, then install a mod, make sure that you redownload the file you're editing before you continue editing the file.  This ensures that you're editing the CURRENT file, not a pre-"mod install" file....

Are we talking 2.0.7?  I frikin hate this 2.0.7 menu system.  I can never find stuff

I understand completely.  It was the main reason I wrote this mod....

[Arantor]

And you never discovered the <<  toggle either?

[Antechinus]

Amazing, innit? Makes you wonder about the gui stuff if people never notice the toggle or the profile setting.

[EL34]

And you never discovered the <<  toggle either?

If you are talking to me, there is no << in my menu and the Mod author says this

Once the mod is installed, the << thingy disappears.  There is no option to change back to SMF's dropdown and/or sidebar menus once the mod is installed,

As I stated above, I looked that the file changes that were supposed to have happened and none of them happened.
Even though the mod said it had installed correctly.

So then I installed the MOD on a test forum I use to test mods. That installed just fine. Then I knew exactly what  had happened after looking at the changed files on the test forum and comparing that to the real forum

Test forum = files were modded
Real forum = files were not modded so I made those mods by hand manually and all was just fine after that

[Arantor]

I wasn't actually, but before the mod was installed, you definitely had the << icon, it was even in your screenshot.

I hope the mod author updates this for 2.1 because you'll need it.

[EL34]

I think that screen shot was after I had uninstalled version 1

Right after that I installed version 2 and that may be why there was no <<



BY the way DougieFesh

Thanks, the new 2.0 tab menu looks great

[dougiefresh]

Test forum = files were modded
Real forum = files were not modded so I made those mods by hand manually and all was just fine after that

Assuming the "test forum" is a local version/copy hosted on your machine and the "real forum" is hosted on an internet server, you need to check the file permissions on the real forum, as they may not be set right.  Go to the Package Manager -> File Permissions and set the file permissions to "Standard - key files writable" or "All files writable".  That may solve your problem with the package manager.  If it doesn't, then I don't know what will....

I hope the mod author updates this for 2.1 because you'll need it.

I plan on doing so.

Thanks, the new 2.0 tab menu looks great

You're welcome!  (btw, imho, you need to adjust the colors a little cause the screenshot doesn't look quite right for that theme )

[EL34]

Test forum = files were modded
Real forum = files were not modded so I made those mods by hand manually and all was just fine after that

Assuming the "test forum" is a local version/copy hosted on your machine and the "real forum" is hosted on an internet server, you need to check the file permissions on the real forum, as they may not be set right.  Go to the Package Manager -> File Permissions and set the file permissions to "Standard - key files writable" or "All files writable".  That may solve your problem with the package manager.  If it doesn't, then I don't know what will....

I hope the mod author updates this for 2.1 because you'll need it.

I plan on doing so.

Thanks, the new 2.0 tab menu looks great

You're welcome!  (btw, imho, you need to adjust the colors a little cause the screenshot doesn't look quite right )

Both forums are on my cloud server, which is a windows server
I'll have a look, but everything else on the forum runs fine and other mods have installed correctly Can't say what went wrong, but Ill have a look

Not sure what you are saying about the colors in my screen shot.
Colors may get reduced when saving as a .gif
The forum looks fine to me on my monitor

[EL34]

Yep, something got changed on the languages folder.
It did not have write permission
Sources was fine and all other folders were fine

I guess all other changes failed when the mod package could not write to the languages folder?

[dougiefresh]

Not sure what you are saying about the colors in my screen shot.
Colors may get reduced when saving as a .gif
The forum looks fine to me on my monitor

Ah, that's what I missed....  That's probably what happened  Okay, cool!  I like JPGs and/or PNGs.....  GIFs don't save right for some reason...

Both forums are on my cloud server, which is a windows server
I'll have a look, but everything else on the forum runs fine and other mods have installed correctly Can't say what went wrong, but Ill have a look

Yep, something got changed on the languages folder.
It did not have write permission
Sources was fine and all other folders were fine

I guess all other changes failed when the mod package could not write to the languages folder?

Can't imagine why the other changes would've failed....  Interesting....  Don't understand why it would've reported that it installed correctly, either...

[EL34]

I had the same thing happen on another mod, but but I did not think to investigate all the folder permissions

I installed that mod manually also.
It was a while ago and I forgot about it till just now.
Sources folder had write permissions, but languages did not

Both mods did not give any warnings, in fact all the file checks were ok before the install
When I went to uninstall your mod and try again is when I got the warnings.
The warnings of course say that the changes cannot be reversed because it cannot find those changes.

It's then that I looked inside the files to see if the changes and replacements had actually occurred, and they had not.

[dougiefresh]

Well, I'm glad you got your situation straightened out.  Hope you enjoy the mod!

[EL34]

Yes I do, thanks

Your tabbed admin menu mod should be incorporated as part of the core package

The stock admin menu is horrible.

[dougiefresh]

Uploaded v1.1 - June 16, 2014
o Fixed an undefined array index error in GenericTabs.template.php

[EL34]

Thanks for the update

How come I currently show version 2.0 installed and the new version is 1.1?

[dougiefresh]

Uploaded v2.1 - July 28th, 2014
o Fixed an undefined array index error in GenericTabs.template.php

How come I currently show version 2.0 installed and the new version is 1.1?

That's because I messed up....  Version 2.1 implements the same change that v1.1 does.  I really shouldn't have introduced the admin area changes within this mod, though....  Now I can't seperate them....  Ugh....

The stock admin menu is horrible.

EDIT: Question and statement removed based on answer in this topic....

[dougiefresh]

Uploaded v2.2 - November 4th, 2014
o Made changes so that Anti-Spam section created by SMF 2.1-style Admin Area shows up under Security.

[dougiefresh]

Uploaded v1.2 - November 6th, 2014
o Fixed several undefined array index errors in GenericTabs.template.php

Uploaded v2.3 - November 6th, 2014
o Fixed several undefined array index errors in GenericTabs.template.php

[Shambles]

Lol, I think I have a bit of work to do with your mod on my test installation

[dougiefresh]

Yeah, would agree....  I think I need to figure out how to make the colors changable in the UI (somewhere) and make the tabs a single-line that's scrollable...  Both of those would definitely help....

[Shambles]

Most of it's actually great

Though you'll see from the top line of my screeny that I have a ?> at the bottom of my Admin.english.php, but the mod has added the text string after that 

[Arantor]

What would also help is mod authors not using ridiculously long titles for things.

[dougiefresh]

Since much confusion resulted from my previous attempt to split the version 1.x and 2.x lines of this mod into two seperate mods, I am discontinuing this mod.  The version 1.x line, the tabs-only version, will be serviced in Tabs for Admin & Moderator Menus.  The version 2.x line, the tabs plus the reorganization, will be serviced in New Package Manager & Mods Areas.  I have just submitted these mods, so I will have to wait for approval.

This topic is now closed.