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#212352 05/15/2008 3:59 PM
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how do i change the default for active topics to 24 hours instead of 7 days? and is it possible to change how much information is displayed in each topic summary?

i have people complaining that they hit active topics and get 13 pages of posts, and want it a little more abbreviated.

Last edited by badfrog; 05/15/2008 4:52 PM.
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Re: changing default Active Topics display
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In \templates\default\header.tpl find this starting on or around Line 44:

HTML
	<table class="popup_menu">
		<tr>
			<td class="popup_menu_content"><a href="{ubb url="ubb=activetopics&range=7&type=t"}">{$lang.ACTIVE_TOPICS}</a></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td class="popup_menu_content"><a href="{ubb url="ubb=activetopics&range=7&type=p"}">{$lang.ACTIVE_POSTS}</a></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td class="popup_menu_content"><a href="{ubb url="ubb=activetopics&range=7&type=u"}">{$lang.ACTIVE_NO_ANSWERS}</a></td>
		</tr>
	</table>

Where you see the 3 instances of &range=7 you can change that value to:

1 for Past 24 Hours
2 for Past 48 Hours
7 for Past 7 Days (default)

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jgeoff #212509 05/16/2008 5:03 PM
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ok, that helped. but I would still like to know how to configure the post summary that is displayed.. limit it to like 50 characters or something...

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Re: changing default Active Topics display
Bad Frog #213408 05/26/2008 3:54 AM
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Originally Posted by badfrog
ok, that helped. but I would still like to know how to configure the post summary that is displayed.. limit it to like 50 characters or something...

This is a question I'd love an answer to, too!

I like having the ability to hover over the hyperlink to get a "description" of what was posted--which is now a feature of 7.3, but I wonder why have the brief description field in active topics AND the hover feature.

Am I making sense?

I'd like to have just the hyperlinks & the hover-link option.

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Re: changing default Active Topics display
ADWOFF #213421 05/26/2008 11:56 AM
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/scripts/activetopics.inc.php

find:
PHP Code
$topics[$i]['post_body'] = substr(strip_tags($post_body,'<a>'),0,250);

just change the 250 to a smaller number (of chars)...

or totally remove it and just have the tooltip.. by
PHP Code
$topics[$i]['post_body'] = '';


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