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#172493 - 01/05/07 06:55 PM Disabling Subject change
jgeoff Offline
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My turn for a question \:D

I don't like how people can change the Subject of a thread when replying to it. Maybe it's my Classic upbringing, but to me it causes confusion when a thread is named one thing in postlist and another in the cfrm "latest post".

Obviously I could comment-out the Subject field for replies; however, I still would like the subject visible. How can I display the subject in plain text in place of the edit box?
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#172494 - 01/05/07 07:00 PM Re: Disabling Subject change [Re: jgeoff]
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I too dislike users being able to edit the subject... I'd like to see an option to not allow users to change the topic in a reply, kind of like how the Quick Reply box works...

I'm pretty sure you can edit it out by:
Find in newreply.tpl:
 Code:
<input type="text" name="Subject" maxlength="{$config.SUBJECT_LENGTH}" class="form-input" size="60" tabindex="1" value="{$Subject}" />


Replace With:
 Code:
<input type="hidden" name="Subject" maxlength="{$config.SUBJECT_LENGTH}" class="form-input" size="60" tabindex="1" value="{$Subject}" />{$Subject}


This would use the subject of the parent they're responding to, and show the subject in the new reply as a non editable html entry.

Completely untested though...
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#172497 - 01/05/07 07:06 PM Re: Disabling Subject change [Re: Gizmo]
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I was just looking at that line ;\)

Was thinking perhaps I could just comment-out that whole line and just use {$Subject}, but your way is better if the form needs that variable passed through it.

I'll give it a shot when I get a chance... thanks.
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#172498 - 01/05/07 07:09 PM Re: Disabling Subject change [Re: jgeoff]
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LOL - The file was already open, so I just made the change. Works great! I bolded the subject, tho - looks good. <B>{$Subject}</B>

PS - I really need to keep track of my modifications. I gotta redo them all for 7.1 \:o
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#172499 - 01/05/07 07:13 PM Re: Disabling Subject change [Re: jgeoff]
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Yeh, I was just going to purge the line, but then you'd end up with absolutely no topic on each post (as it woudln't be submitted with the form).

Glad to hear it worked... this is why I love the templating engine, it makes doing some updates very painless \:\)
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#172505 - 01/05/07 08:57 PM Re: Disabling Subject change [Re: Gizmo]
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Well maybe have the option but we do allow a change. Maybe make it more work for them to change it so that they don't just do it for the heck of it, but realize they are going out of their way to do it which might slow down some changes, but not all.
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#172506 - 01/05/07 09:02 PM Re: Disabling Subject change [Re: ntdoc]
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 Originally Posted By: ntdoc
Well maybe have the option but we do allow a change. Maybe make it more work for them to change it so that they don't just do it for the heck of it, but realize they are going out of their way to do it which might slow down some changes, but not all.
what? lol
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#172510 - 01/05/07 09:52 PM Re: Disabling Subject change [Re: Gizmo]
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Just saying I don't want to 100% stop a user from changing the title (what if they initially got it wrong)

I can see where some boards might not like users changing it but for us some change it just not even thinking about it, others change it to a more appropriate title which is okay by us, however I would like to make it more effort so that the casual users isn't changing it just because they are being a bone head.

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#172511 - 01/05/07 09:54 PM Re: Disabling Subject change [Re: ntdoc]
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Nononono, see, this makes it so REPLIES to a thread cannot change the title; if the user wants to change their title they can edit their initial post...

Which brings up another point, the edit post page still has a subject box :x...
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#172513 - 01/05/07 09:56 PM Re: Disabling Subject change [Re: Gizmo]
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editpost.tpl:
Find
 Code:
<input type="text" name="Subject" value="{$Subject}" maxlength="{$config.SUBJECT_LENGTH}" class="form-input" size="60" />


Replace With
 Code:
<input type="text" name="Subject" value="{$Subject}" maxlength="{$config.SUBJECT_LENGTH}" class="form-input" size="60" />{$Subject}
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