Latest Threads still causing issues

[jlato89]

It seems to open up more space above the middle portion of the portal. I went to my templates and copied the recent threads template for my template and pasted it into the custom boxes and used that instead. It works fine with the custom box.

[WildcardSearch]

Okay I will take a look soon. Thanks for the report.

[WildcardSearch]

I am working on 1.4 now and the new templates/settings system should straighten this problem out hopefully. This is just slow work for me.

[WildcardSearch]

Can you provide any details I can't seem to reproduce this error.

[jlato89]

All i know at the moment is that using the built in block it messes up the layout and only shows one colum instead of 3. When i create a custom block with the exact text from the latest threads template(in the portal section) it shows as its suppose to.
I dont believe iv used the latest update yet though. I will check it within the next couple days.

[WildcardSearch]

Thanks. Let me know please.

I would like to solve this before 1.4 is released (shouldn't be long)

[jlato89]

My last reply was wrong. i meant to say that it adds space to the top of the middle column. and after adding the updated files its still same issue. I have to use the following in a custom block to make it work--

{$threadlist}

which was pulled straight from the template itself(minus the title parrt.)

[jlato89]

didnt mean to close that....
table border="0" cellspacing="{$theme['borderwidth']}" cellpadding="{$theme['tablespace']}" class="tborder">
{$threadlist}
/table>

had remove the < on the start of those codes so it would show in thwe comment

[WildcardSearch]

Okay can you give you me instructions to reproduce the issue (if possible from a fresh install-- if not I understand) to reproduce this bug? I have tried and tried and I get no errors or display problems with the Latest Threads side box so I can't solve this.

If you have the option to test, can you try to download the 'feature' branch of this repo (1.4 beta) and try it not on a live forum though it is still beta.

Trying to sort this but so far I've got nothing.

[jlato89]

All i did was install it and activate the latest threads block. however i think i mentioned in a previous issue(about same issue) that it was also connected to another block. so if they both were active it caused this issue.i dont have a testing server setup at the moment so i cant test fully. however iol see if i can find out if its the pair of 2 blocks that are cauing the issuue.

[jlato89]

I didnt notice this before but it looks as though it is not taking/ignoring the "Number of latest discussions to show " setting. Instead its showing like 20 latest threads. which is prob the cause of the issue.

[WildcardSearch]

@jlatour88 I think you have some issues with improper installation.

It sounds like you might have parts of an old installation hanging around causing problems. Can you try exporting any custom boxes and doing a full reinstall?

Improvements are being made to the upgrade script for 1.4 so these sort of things won't happen but I can't be sure that isn't the problem.

I really hope this get solved soon.

[jlato89]

Sure il just export my custom boxes and just uninstall/delete the files right? or do u want me to clear them from the database as well?

[jlato89]

Looks like it was caused by an improperly set setting. in the database you have adv_sidebox_latest_threads_max set to a value of 20 by default which caused the issues with the template. After redoing everything the settings showed more options(on being the adv_sidebox_latest_threads_max value) and after changing that to 8 it fixed the template issue.

Id suggest making it a smaller value to better accommodate diff templates. it can be increased if needed but at first glance it looks as if it was broken..
as this has now been resolved you can close out the issue. thanks Wildcard

[WildcardSearch]

Awesome!

This upgrade issue has been fixed in 1.4 so need to worry about it reoccurring 😄

In future versions all those necessary things are tidied up in upgrade script.

Thanks so much for your patience.