Request: a link back to the forum at the end of a thread.

[Hueij]

It used to be so that when I got to the end of a thread there was a link back to the part of the forum I was in. Right now I have to use the "Home" key on my keyboard to get to the top of the page to be able to return to that part.

There is a dropdown box at the bottom but if I want to return to e.g. off topic I have to scroll to it, all the way to the bottom of the box.

[Ming]

I have to agree. I hate the dropdown box at the bottom, and would rather just have a button like the old forums did that returned you to the current forum you are viewing.

[H Tower]

+1

[N35t0r]

/me endorses this product and/or service

[MikeH]

I did that on CG, wasn't hard.

[H Tower]

/me test

the /me hack doesn't work anymore?

[Robert]

How did you do that, Mike?

[Dinner]

This is a good idea.

[MikeH]

How did you do that, Mike?

It was on 3.x, so the templates might be called different things.

I copied the "forumjump" call from the FORUMDISPLAY template to the bottom of the SHOWTHREAD template.

In this case you could probably just duplicate the breadcrumb trail bit at the top of the SHOWTHREAD template and add it again at the bottom of the template.

[self biased]

DO WANT.

[Martin Gühmann]

It was on 3.x, so the templates might be called different things.

I copied the "forumjump" call from the FORUMDISPLAY template to the bottom of the SHOWTHREAD template.

In this case you could probably just duplicate the breadcrumb trail bit at the top of the SHOWTHREAD template and add it again at the bottom of the template.

Well, actually it is in the forumjump template:

<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="navpopupmenu popupmenu nohovermenu" id="{vb:raw navpopup.id}">
    <vb:if condition="$navpopup['link'] AND $navpopup['title']">
        <span class="shade">{vb:rawphrase quick_navigation}</span>
        <a href="{vb:raw navpopup.link}" class="popupctrl"><span class="ctrlcontainer">{vb:raw navpopup.title}</span></a>
        <a href="{vb:raw relpath}#top" class="textcontrol" onclick="document.location.hash='top';return false;">{vb:rawphrase top}</a>
    <vb:else />
        <a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl"><span class="ctrlcontainer">{vb:rawphrase quick_navigation}</span></a>
    </vb:if>
    <ul class="navpopupbody popupbody popuphover">
        
        <li class="optionlabel">{vb:rawphrase site_areas}</li>
        <li><a href="usercp.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase user_control_panel}</a></li>
        <li><a href="private.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase private_messages}</a></li>
        <li><a href="subscription.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase subscriptions}</a></li>
        <li><a href="online.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase whos_online}</a></li>
        <li><a href="search.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase search_forums}</a></li>
        <li><a href="{vb:raw vboptions.forumhome}.php{vb:raw session.sessionurl_q}">{vb:rawphrase forums_home}</a></li>
            
        <vb:if condition="$jumpforumbits">
            <li class="optionlabel">{vb:rawphrase forums}</li>
            {vb:raw jumpforumbits}
        </vb:if>
        
    </ul>
</div> 

It seems that it are those lines:

<a href="{vb:raw navpopup.link}" class="popupctrl"><span class="ctrlcontainer">{vb:raw navpopup.title}</span></a>
<a href="{vb:raw relpath}#top" class="textcontrol" onclick="document.location.hash='top';return false;">{vb:rawphrase top}</a> 

What I don't understand is that {vb:raw navpopup.link} and {vb:raw relpath} return the same stuff. Since {vb:raw navpopup.title} returns the currently selected forum in the navpopup. So {vb:raw navpopup.link} should return the curently selected forum link.

Maybe it would help if anybody could post the vB3 version of that template.

-Martin

[Robert]

I'll test it out tomorrow, thanks a lot for your help, Mike and Martin!

[Robert]

I ended up installing the product "lower breadcrumps" by lynne lower.

[germanos]

Awesome

[MikeH]

Great.

Her plugin probably does the same modification you could have done manually though.