Page Grouping

[Martin]

I asked about this over at the old EZBoard and I want to request it again as a full feature of the product.

The page summary on the long topic in Chit Chat serves as proof of why it's a needed feature:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=46&pagenumber=34


If the page display in the topic were set to group pages in bundles of 5 or 10, it would make a much cleaner display of the page numbers at the top of topic pages.
As it is now, if there are more than 10 or 15 pages, it's going to start forcing the actual topic further down the pages to display the page numbers.

There is a hack for the UBB that accomplishes this and I wonder if it could be easily converted into the native code for theis proggie?

http://ubbcodehacking.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000022.html

[stv]

ya... that would be nice!

like:

<< (6) 7 8 9 10 11 >> (12)

[Edited by stv on 04-20-2000 at 08:57 PM]

[Menno]

It would be a great improvent to keep the layout a bit tidy.

[John]

Good idea! That never made it onto my to do list from the Ezboard, so I've added it now. It is in the 'near future' bit of the list :)

John

[stv]

This should also be on the forum where is shows page numbers so you don't get:

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42

like at the bottom of this page - http://www.vbulletin.com/testforum/forumdisplay.php?forumid=2

and anywhere else with a list of pages....

Steven

[Martin]

and it wouldn't hurt to take the "NoWrap" out of the statement either, so it doesn't drag the page 3 times too wide...

[Menno]

that would be a nice idea, as long as it doesn't mess up the code hacks ;)
Seriously, yoeah, that should be implemented, especially because the posting icons are hard to find at 3x width :)

[wandrer]

I would suggest that the setting for:

<< < 7 8 9 10 11 > >>

be admin selectable so you can select whether you want x pages available and/or whether you would want a 'last/first' page. I would prefer:

<< < 7 8 9 > >>

other people might want:

< 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >

with:

'>' for 'go to next page'
'<' for 'go to previous page'
'<<' for 'go to first page'
'>>' for 'go to last page'

[wandrer]

(previous page) 1 2 = 3 = 4 5 6 7 8 ... 20 ... 40 ... 60 61 (next page)

[Martin]

a simple:

first previous next last

[Menno]

that would be simple, but if you're looking for page 10 of 20 you'll be busy for a while .
I say the << < 12345 > >> solution

[stv]

I like << < 12345 > >>