FAQ
When ASB is initially installed, no changes are made to your forum's look and feel. For the side boxes to appear they must be added in the ACP page. Go to ACP -> Configuration -> Advanced Sidebox and drag a module over either column and drop it. A modal window will allow you to customize it. When you are done save the box and refresh your forum.
The cool thing about MyBB is that you can customize all of the HTML to your preferences. Unfortunately, this also means that when you have custom themes, ASB may need a little help to perform template edits on affected pages.
Look at the script definition (ACP -> Configuration -> Advanced Sidebox -> Manage Scripts [tab] -> [script title link]), check the header and footer search text and ensure that it is in your theme's templates exactly. If not you can edit the search to get side boxes showing up.
Formerly, the width of side box columns was controlled by a global setting, but in the 2 series, each script and position (left/right) have their own width. This allows admin to mix and match more when designing the side box layout.
Go to ACP -> Configuration -> Advanced Sidebox -> Manage Scripts [tab] -> [script title link] and change the width left and right settings and save.
ASB installs images and CSS for all of the ACP themes that are installed on the forum at the time of install. This is meant to make installation easier on you, but when you install new themes, you will need to manually copy the files.
Two: $mybb and $lang are available in custom side boxes. Earlier on more were available but a change of scope caused that to change. We are currently looking to restore the ability to use a wider selection of globals.
Yes. As of this edit there are three third party addon modules and one plugin that integrates with ASB. They are all hosted on GitHub, the MyBB mods site, and in our list of modules (that we hope will soon contain more mods).
A list will be maintained here of all available modules: Addons
Relax. Just delete all the side boxes and things should go back to normal. ASB is powerful, but that also means that if you edit script definitions inappropriately, everything could start looking crazy.
ASB wraps page content in an HTML table, so changing a script definition to replace into an open table can cause problems. Also remember that you can export (and import) script definitions. So before you try to change things, export and backup your definitions and then if things go wrong you can delete the script definition and import it to restore things to normal.
I would always suggest trying things in a local environment rather than on a live site.