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#1 Post by **dmw71** » Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:29 pm

Here is a consolidation of sticky help topics (to prevent the need for so much scrolling before reaching new posts). It's possible, since the forums were updated that some of the below may be (slightly) outdated, so feel free to call out anything that no longer works as described.

Moving a post
How Do I Add A Picture To A Post?
Game Forum Organization
How Do I Add Character Sheet Hyperlinks To My Signature?
How Do I Link To My Dice Rolls?
How to make and find your campaign ID
How Do I Give Myself An Avatar?
How to add players to your campaign

OGRE MAGE · #2 Post by **OGRE MAGE** » Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:15 pm

Hey Dave!

Do you know if the process for moving an entire topic into another thread has changed?

I used to store all of the completed missions in my BSI game into a "Completed" thread, but I no longer see the option to "Move Topic".

Thanks!

#3 Post by **rredmond** » Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:36 pm

The little judge,s gavel at the bottom left (on my screen) doesn't have that option for you Rob?

#4 Post by **rredmond** » Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:41 pm

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#5 Post by **dmw71** » Thu Oct 01, 2020 10:53 pm

OGRE MAGE wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:15 pm Do you know if the process for moving an entire topic into another thread has changed?

What Ron said.

Do you see the 'Move topic' option in the 'Quick-mod tools' grouping?

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If not, let us know and we can look into it.

OGRE MAGE · #6 Post by **OGRE MAGE** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 1:59 pm

Doh!

I see it now.

Thanks guys!

Bluetongue · #7 Post by **Bluetongue** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 7:26 pm

How to ...

Sometimes I want to link to a post or comment, not quote it but point folk to it. It is that blue and underlined feature but I am not familiar how to create that.

I am obviously missing something easy but not sure what icon, mod tool or menu it is found.

Thanks.

#8 Post by **rredmond** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 7:55 pm

Like this?

viewtopic.php?p=591010#p591010

#9 Post by **rredmond** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 7:56 pm

Two ways:
1. You can click on the number of the post (for example in your post above, it's #7) and a box will open up with the link. Copy that link and paste it where you want it.
2. You can click on the Subject of the post (for example in your post above, it's "Re: How To..." and then copy the link right out of your address bar at the top of the webpage.

Hope one of those help!

#10 Post by **dmw71** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 8:00 pm

Here is a link to your post, without quoting it.

Now, how to accomplish this:

There are a few ways to get the actual link to the post you want to link to, but maybe the easiest is to click on the post number (e.g. #7) to the left of the poster's username:

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This will open a modal window with the URL to the post already highlighted. Just copy (PC: Ctrl+C or Mac: Command+C) that:

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Next, highlight the text that you want to appear as the link (e.g. "link") and press the 'Insert URL' button:

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This will wrap a 'url' tag around the selected text:

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Inside the opening 'url' tag, add an equal sign (e.g. "=") after the literal "url" text (between it and the closing bracket).

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Paste (PC: Ctrl+V or Mac: Command+V) the URL you copied in step one (this should be immediately after the equal sign and before the closing bracket; no spaces):

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When you preview your post, the selected text that you added the link to will appear as a link, which will direct the user to that linked-top post.

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#11 Post by **rredmond** » Mon Jan 24, 2022 8:14 pm

Or that ↑ ↑ I guess.

Bluetongue · #12 Post by **Bluetongue** » Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:34 am

viewtopic.php?p=591010#p591010

Like this ...

Thanks, using that chain icon I see.

BackworldTraveller · Fri Oct 07, 2022 7:30 pm

Can I right justify numbers in a table? Or left justify headers?

Header	Using "th"
10,000	using "td"
10	using "td"
Above numbers left justify by default	using "td"

#14 Post by **dmw71** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 8:34 pm

I've been playing around with a few different styles and haven't been able to accomplish it.

I'll ping Greg.

[th style="text-align:left]Header (Centred by default)[/th]

Using "th"
10,000	using "td"
10	using "td"
Above numbers left justify by default	using "td"

#15 Post by **ToniXX** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 10:44 pm

I'm pretty sure I can modify the BBcodes for these so that you can specify an alignment as well. I'll work on this tomorrow morning.

Thanks for your patience

BackworldTraveller · Fri Oct 07, 2022 11:03 pm

ToniXX wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 10:44 pm I'm pretty sure I can modify the BBcodes for these so that you can specify an alignment as well. I'll work on this tomorrow morning.

Thanks for your patience

No - Thank you!

#17 Post by **ToniXX** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 4:52 pm

I've added a new BBCode: align.
You can just put the values within this new code. Hover over the align option to see values you can use: left, right, center, justify
Here's a simple example
Try it yourself

Value Of the Number	Value 2
1,000	100
10	250

#18 Post by **dmw71** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 4:52 pm

Nice.

BackworldTraveller · Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:35 pm

Seems to work fine. Thank you

Eris · #20 Post by **Eris** » Mon Nov 13, 2023 10:38 pm

Get Email Notifications for Forum Activity

Do I have this correct? If I do I want to post it to the games I'm running so everyone gets set up correctly.

I think the following sets the Notifications of ALL Forums you are subscribed to on the Board

1. Go to Front page where all the Forums are displayed. https://www.unseenservant.us/forum/index.php
2. Click on UCP (top of page)
3. Click on Edit notifications (left side of page).
4. Select the email checkboxes for, at least, the following:
Someone replies to a topic to which you are subscribed
Someone quotes you in a post
Someone creates a topic in a forum to which you are subscribed
Someone replies a topic in a forum to which you are subscribed

If I'm not wrong this should get you an email for almost anything a user experiences in all the forums to which they are subscribed.

Now to actually subscribe to a Forum.
1. Do the above and then...
2. Open the Forum you want to Subscribe to, and scroll to the bottom of the page...all the way down.
3. Click on Subscribe Forum and the text will change to Unsubscribe Forum.
4. You should be subscribed to that forum now and will receive notifications on all
posts as you set in the settings above until you click again and change the text back to Subscribe.

To See Which Forums You Are Subscribed To...
1. Click UCP at top of screen
2. Click Manage Subscriptions on left sidebar.

Is this all correct?