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[The portal enabled]

Hello,

We get some questions regarding to how to get the Announcements/News block work. Some members can't get them works. If you are having this trouble, following instructions below to solve:

Some things you have to have first:
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• The portal enabled. It it's not enabled, check settings: ACP (Administration Control Panel) -> 'General' tab -> MODS Configuration, Enable StarGate Portal :: Yes then, check your installed styles, if you use a style that is not support the portal, the forum will redirect the portal to the forum so you will never see your portal. The solution is you only install styles that support portal.
  
• Announcements/News block displayed on the portal. If you don't see them, check ACP -> 'StarGate' tab -> Manage Blocks -> enable/add new Announcements/News block.
  
• Find out forum id of the forum you want to get announcements from. Go to your forum index, click on the forum you want to get announcements/news from, find vfxxxx.html in the web address, xxxx is the forum id.
  For example: your forum address:
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  http://testforum.freeforum.ca/music-[B]vf[COLOR=Red]2[/COLOR].html[/B]
  ==> The forum id is: 2
  

Then setup block configurations:
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• Go to ACP -> 'StarGate Portal' tab -> Manage Module Variables.
  
• Setup block configurations:

For Announcement Settings:
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• Announcements Forum ID: enter the forum id you collected. If you don't know how to find it, see above section.
• Number of announcements to display: use the default value or enter new value.
• Length of announcements: use the default value or enter new value.
• Announcement type: use the default value or enter new value that this field allow.
• Allow Announcements: have to select "Yes"
  

For News settings:
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• News Forum ID:: enter the forum id you collected. If you don't know how to find it, see above section.
• Number of news items to display:: use the default value or enter new value.
• Length of news item:: use the default value or enter new value.
• Allow news to be displayed:: have to select "Yes"
  

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Hope this helps.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Thank you.

[StarGate Portal]

Dear beautiful members,

First of all, i'm sorry for the delay in phpBB3 conversion. We didn't convert your forums to phpBB3 as we announced. And thank you for your patience on waiting for us.

We installed following MODs for your forum:
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• StarGate Portal with useful blocks.
  
• Ajax Shoutbox
  
• Quick Reply
  
• Styles Demo
  
• MODs Configuration: allow you can disable/enable above MODs, you don't need to request for MOD activation like before.
  
• Advanced database backup
  
• Show forum images in ACP to allow you view all available forum images to select.
  
• Advanced Meta Tags
  
• Keywords URL
  

We planned to convert your forum next weekend if nothing changed, give you a week to test out new MODs. If you get any errors, please report here so we can fix them and make your new forum more stable.

Your test phpBB3 forums are still there, please feel free to test out new features, functions, MODs and don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.


Thank you.

[Administration Control Panel]

First of all, check this block activation, if it's not on your portal, activate it.

Then, follow instructions to manage songs:
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• Log into your forum as administrator
• Click on 'Administration Control Panel' link at the bottom of a page.
  
• Verify your administrator status again if the forum ask.
• Click on 'StarGate Portal' tab -> Click on 'Add a New Module' under 'Module'.
  
• Fill following fields:

• Type: 20 (required, it must be 20, don't use other number)
  
• Name: [playlist name, whatever you like] (required)
  
• Information: Enter song web addresses (song URLs), place a line break between each song URL. (required)
  
• For example: see this image
  

• Press 'Submit' to save changes.
  

Hope this helps. Have fun with your forum!

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Thank you.

[Administration Control Panel]

Our phpBB3 forum service comes with pre-defined MODs, provide you more tools to manage and improve your forums. Before you can't disable/enable MODs, but now, you can do that yourself. You don't need to request a MOD activation from us and wait for our response.

To disable/enable MODs, follow instructions below:
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• Log into your forum as administrator
• Click on 'Administration Control Panel' link at the bottom of a page.
  
• Verify your administrator status again if the forum ask.
• Click on 'General' tab -> Click on 'MODs Configuration' under 'Board Configuration'. Here, you can disable/enable MODs, you also can change MODs settings.
  
• Press 'Submit' to save changes.
  

Hope this helps. Have fun with your forum!

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Thank you.

Dear beautiful members,

First of all, i'm sorry for the delay in phpBB3 conversion. We didn't convert your forums to phpBB3 as we announced.

I understand that you are waiting for this conversion for a long time and can wait no more now. But sorry, we have to delay this conversion until next weekend. This delay provides us more time to fix lot of unexpected issues from MODs and complete more MOD installations on other extra styles. And tomake sure that your new phpBB3 forum will work fine and stable after the conversion. We are trying our best to complete all tasks to convert your forums as soon as possible. If something changed, we will let you know again. Hope you understand.

Here is the progress:

• Portal: 95% completed
  
• Ajax Shoutbox 90% completed
  
• Backup and Restore: 50% completed
  
• Quick Reply: 100% completed
  
• Advanced Meta Tags: 100% completed
  
• Keywords URL: 100% completed
  
• Top Posters: 100% completed, integrated into the Portal
  
• Recent Topics: 100% completed, integrated into the Portal
  
• MP3 Player: 100% completed, integrated into the Portal
  
• Styles Demo: 100% completed, integrated into the Portal
  
• And others are also 100% completed, integrated into the Portal
  

Your test phpBB3 forums are still there, please feel free to test out new features and functions of phpBB3 and don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. You don't see any MODs we installed because it's hidden for our testing purpose. When all MODs can work perfectly, they will ready for your test.

Thank you.

Please refer to Knowledge Base - Adding Custom BBCodes in phpBB3 for more information.

Feel free to post your questions here if you have any trouble.

Thank you.

Please refer to Knowledge Base - phpBB3 Permissions.

Feel free to post your questions here if you have any trouble.

Thank you.

[In this new test, we fixed following reported issues of the previous test:]

Hello,

We had converted your phpBB2 forums to phpBB3 a few days ago for testing purpose again. This will make sure that your data will not be lost when we will do a real conversion. Please note that this is only a test, so please check your phpBB3 forum to see you have any loss/errors/problems or not, if you see any errors please report here so we can fix it for you.

In this new test, we fixed following reported issues of the previous test:

• Missing avatars.
• Incorrect Site Description.

For 'HTML code shown as it is' problem. It's not a bug/an error. It's because phpBB3 doesn't allow HTML for secure reason. But don't worry about it, we have another solution to allow you use HTML.


Your test phpBB3 forum may get following issues:

• No forums found -> Log into Forum Administration Panel -> re-setup forum permissions.
• Installed phpBB2 styles lost, and replaced with prosilver style -> Find a similar style and install.
• Configured languages lost, and replaced with English -> Re-install your language.

To access to your test phpBB3 forum, use this url-like http://forumname.phpbb3.domain.com. Your test phpBB3 forum had converted a few days ago so you may not see new posts/members. But when we do a real conversion, everything will be kept updated.

For example:
Your current phpBB2 forum: testforum.freeforum.ca -> The converted forum: testforum.phpbb3.freeforum.ca
Your current phpBB2 forum: forumname.forummate.com -> The converted forum: forumname.phpbb3.forummate.com
Your current phpBB2 forum: superstar.phpbbstar.com -> The converted forum: superstar.phpbb3.phpbbstar.com


You may don't see your forum converted, it's because of following reasons:

• Forum suspended before the conversion, then un-suspended after/during the conversion.
• New forum created.

But don't worry, we won't lose you for the real conversion.

There are some online documents you may read if something is hard to understand/setup:
phpBB • phpBB 3.0 Olympus Documentation
phpBB • Flash tutorials
phpBB • Knowledge Base

For a complete list of features of phpBB3, refer to phpBB • Features.

If you discover any bugs, please report here so we can fix them to avoid unexpected issues when we do a real conversion. If you have any requests for MODs, styles, smilies, avatars, ranks, forum image uploads also request here.

Again, this is a test, practice new features and new changes. Don't post real posts, because we may do a test conversion again or do a real conversion, your data on test forums will be overwriten.

If you can't log into your forum, please use 'I forgot my password' link to request a new password.

Thank you.

[from youtube or somewhere]

If you have the code of a flash to embed like youtube, you can use BBCode [flash] to embed it.

You have a code look like this from youtube or somewhere:

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width: the width of the flash
height: the height of the flash
value/src: Web address to the flash

Rewrite it into [flash] as this thread advised. That means your [flash] will like this:

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[flash=[COLOR=Red]425[/COLOR],[COLOR=Magenta]355[/COLOR]][COLOR=Green]http://www.youtube.com/v/QMBdkBGePzQ&hl=en[/COLOR][/flash]

Hope this helps.

Please feel free to post here if you have any questions, we and other members will reply to you as soon as we can.

Thank you.

[NOTICE]

phpBB3 is more secure than the previous version (phpBB2). It doesn't allow you use HTML in forum description and posts. So if you would like to use HTML in forum description and posts, you have to save it as a BBCode.

NOTICE: For 'forum description', i mean for the description of each forum of your board, it's not board/site description. phpBB3 only allow plain text in site/board description, don't try to use HTML, you will get no result.

Follow instructions below to do it:
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• First, you have to know how to add/edit a BBCode.
  
• Then, add a BBCode with these info: BBCode usage: [yourcode]{TEXT}[/yourcode], HTML replacement: Your HTML code, Help line: Text of the BBCode when your mouse is over, Settings: check on 'Display on posting page' if you would like to show it next to 'Font Colour' button on posting page so other users can use it.
  {TEXT}: must be in uppercase, it won't work if {text} in uppercase.
  
• Now you can embed your new BBCode in posts or forum description.

Now, let practice a bit, try it on your forum to see how it works.
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• Log into your fourm as Administrator -> Click on 'Administration Control Panel' at the bottom of any pages -> Verify your administrator permission again.
  
• Click on 'POSTING' tab -> click on 'BBCodes' under 'Messages' -> press on 'Add a new BBCode' button
  
  • For 'BBCode usage', enter:
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    [mycode1]{TEXT}[/mycode1]
    {TEXT}: must be in uppercase.
    
  • For 'HTML replacement', enter:
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    Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com
    
    
  • For 'Help line', enter:
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    test html code as bbcode
    
  • For 'Settings', check on 'Display on posting page' if you would like to have a clickable button on posting page so your users can use, if not you have to remember to use it.
    
• Click on 'Submit' to add your BBCode.
  
• Post this in your posts or forum description:
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  [mycode1][COLOR="Red]sometext[/COLOR][/mycode1]
  sometext: some text, whatever to make it valid to show your HTML code.
  
• Check the result. Wow! it works fine.

Hope this helps.

Feel free to post here if you have any questions, we and other members can help you.

Thank you.

Hello,

We are planning to switch over all phpBB2 forums to phpBB3. But we don't know that you will like it or not. We was wondering to hear your opinion. So please review the phpBB3 features and features comparison and tell me your opinion. Your input is very important to us.

Thank you.

[For example:]

Hello,

We have converted your phpBB2 forums to phpBB3 2 days ago for testing purpose. This will make sure that your data will not be lost when we will do a real conversion. Please note that this is only a test, so please check your phpBB3 forum, if you see any errors please report here to help us fix it.

Please access your phpBB3 forum using this url-like http://forumname.phpbb3.domain.com.

For example:
testforum.freeforum.ca -> testforum.phpbb3.freeforum.ca
forumname.forummate.com -> forumname.phpbb3.forummate.com
superstar.phpbbstar.com -> superstar.phpbb3.phpbbstar.com

Following discovered issues:
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• Missing avatars (will fix it)
• HTML/Javascript in forum description/site description doesn't work (phpBB3 doesn't support)

If you discover any bugs, please report here. If you have any requests for MODs, styles, smilies, avatars, ranks also request here.

Dear users,

Recently, we are getting so much spam posts and spam signups. If you would like to ban IPs of spammers, please report IPs on this thread, we will ban IPs at server level, they won't able to post anymore on your forums and other sites. We greatly appreciate your report.

Thank you.