The following document will provide you with all the configuration of your IPDL (IP Dynamic Light).
Main Heading - Settings
- Sub Heading #1 - ENABLE IPDynamic Lite?
Setting this option to Yes will enable the IPDL to turn on, setting it to No will turn the IPDL off.
- Sub Heading #2 - Page Title?
This is whatever you wish the portal link title's to be displayed as.
- Sub Heading #3 - Forums to export articles from...
For this option select a forum on your board and place the forum number in the box provided. The forums you select to be put in will have all recent posts appear on the main portal page. This is how to find out what to put in that box. What you need to put in the box are the forum IDs. A forum ID is the number of the forum. That number can be found in the URL.. For example, in the URL http://support.forumer.com/index.php?showforum=4, the number - highlighted red - is the forum's ID. Put as many forum's IDs in the box as you wish, seperated by commas.
- Sub Heading #4 - Number of Articles to display in the main section
For this option select the number of posts on the main portal page you wish to display, by default it's set to 15.
- Sub Heading #5 - Enable Recent Articles?
This option will be what is displayed on the left hand side of your portal page. It will display the most recent topics, and the number of topics you've set via #4.
- Sub Heading #6 - Date format for articles?
This is the date format that the articles will form into. The default date format looks like this: m-j-y H:i
- Sub Heading #7 - Max. no of characters to show per article
Set this to however many number of characters (letters, numbers, etc) you wish to appear per article on the portal page.
- Sub Heading #8 - Enable Recent Discussions?
This option allows recently replied or posted topics to be listed if set to Yes. If set to No the recently replied and/or posted topics will not be listed on the portal page.
- Sub Heading #9 - Show User / Guest Info box?
Set this option to Yes if you wish to the users/guests information box to be displayed on the main portal page. Set too No if you don't want it to be displayed.
- Sub Heading #10 - Show online users?
Setting this option to Yes will show an online users box on the portal page. Setting this option to No will not show an online users box on the portal page.
- Sub Heading #11 - Show search box?
Setting this option to Yes will show a search box on the portal page. Setting this option to No will not show a search box on the portal page.
- Sub Heading #12 - Enable skin selection choice dropdown?
Setting this option to Yes will show a skin selection drop-down menu on the portal page. Setting this option to No will not show the drop-down box. on the portal page.
- Sub Heading #13 - Show Poll?
Setting this option to Yes will show a poll on the portal page. Setting this option to No will not show the poll on the portal page.
Note: You must input the URL to the poll you wish to display in the box provided.
- Sub Heading #14 - Show Site Navigation Menu?
Setting this option to Yes will show the site navigation menu on the portal page. Setting this option to No will not show the site navigation menu on the portal page.
Note: The site navigation menu is all the quick links to the key parts of your board.
- Sub Heading #15 - Site Navigation Menu Links
Input all the navigation links in this box, this will all be showed on the portal page if you've enabled the option above.
- Sub Heading #16 - Show Affiliates / Favoured Sites box?
Setting this option to Yes will show your affiliates/favorite sites in a user display box on the portal page. Setting this option to No will not show the display box on the portal page.
- Sub Heading #17 - Show Affiliates / Favoured Sites box content
This is the box were you may input all the affiliate/site content by using key terms/links and even raw HTML.
Once you've edited all the settings you wish to edit on your IPDL click on the button located at the bottom of the page entitled Submit Changes.
Once you set it up, the url to access it is http://yourforum.forumer.com/index.php?act=home
You can set your portal to be a home page and display every time when some one types your forum's url (http://yourforum.forumer.com) without the need of adding the "/index.php?act=home" to the end by installing a little mod:
Go to Admin CP > Skins and Templates > HTML Templates > Manage HTML > Global HTML Elements > Board Header (logo, links, etc) (function BoardHeader) >
And add this code to the top of the coding:
Quote:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (document.location.href == "http://" + document.location.host + "/")
{
document.location.href = "{ibf.script_url}act=home";
}
</script> |
then click on Update templates.
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