Style/skin sorting into catagories.

[Dan!]

Hello,

I'm currently a web developer who does vbulletin skinning/intergration, I've done many skins for many sites, some of which are the same.

I was wondering, is it possible to "sort" skins? So I can have it like the following...

• Version 1
  
  • Skin 1
  • Skin 2
  • Skin 3
  
  
• Version 2
  
  • Skin 1
  • Skin 2
  • Skin 3
  
  
• Version 3
  
  • Skin 1
  • Skin 2
  • Skin 3
  
  

I've posted this on vb.org, however - I've not yet had a reply from any of the members.

If you understand what I'm on about, then please gimme a shout on weather or not this is possible, as it would be a pretty neat feature to display my work.

Thanks,
Daniel Orman

[Lynne]

That's kinda what I do. I have a style that is not pickable called Layout 1 and then I have several children under it and they are pickable. The children only have color changes or a couple of small template changes, but nothing major. Then I have Layout 2 (not pickable) with a similar set up.

[Dan!]

Yes, thats what I have at the moment - but I want to make "Version 1" viewable by everyone not just admins, but not as a skin - as a group header.

Say you was doing a normal contact form, or some kind of form which had a drop menu, you would have this code..

<select>
 <optgroup label="Version 1">
  <option>Skin 1</option>
  <option>Skin 2</option>
  <option>Skin 3</option>
 </optgroup>
 <optgroup label="Version 2">
  <option>Skin 1</option>
  <option>Skin 2</option>
  <option>Skin 3</option>
 </optgroup>
 <optgroup label="Version 3">
  <option>Skin 1</option>
  <option>Skin 2</option>
  <option>Skin 3</option>
 </optgroup>
</select>

The "<optgroup label="Version 1"></optgroup>" bit will make the option tags inside the optgroup tags one entire group, the label of it would be the listing name, so thats where you get Version 1 from, then have the skins inside the option tags.. basically, see the above code or check it out on my site @ www.dgostyle.co.uk.

It would be easy to do i'd imagine, and the coders at vbulletin would be more than capable..

Would just be a really nice feature, and i'm sure alot of people would benifit and use it.

[Lynne]

If this is a suggestion, then you should post it in the Suggestion forum.

[Dan!]

Okay, Lynne.

Thanks for replying