Visitor Message Tab

[Paul.]

Hi,

Is there a way to get visitor messages appearing clearly one your profile rather than mixed in with many other posts and threads that are posted?
Our users, and myself, find it a bit confusing that it's all in one place.
Can I somehow add a Tab like before, that shows Visitor Messages?
This used to be the landing page for our profiles.

[glennrocksvb]

There is "Visitor Messages only" filter in the Filter dropdown at the upper right of the Activities tab. You can also filter by time and content type.

[Wayne Luke]

Unfortunately, there is no way to set this so others only see your visitor messages. They would have to apply the filter themselves. Filters are only good for the current page load and only affect what you see.

[Wayne Luke]

There is a JIRA for this here: http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-4412

[glennrocksvb]

I found a way to add a Visitor Messages tab via template hook. You can temporarily use this while waiting for the actual fix from vBulletin.

Add this template hook in the profile_tabs_1 hook location. Hook argument should be userInfo=userInfo. For instructions on how to create a template hook, go to one of my mods in my signature below and follow the similar instructions and change the values accordingly.

<li id="custom-vm-tab">

    <style>
       .custom-vm-tab-active.profileTabs .widget-tabs-nav li.ui-tabs-selected a { background: transparent; }
       .custom-vm-tab-active #activities-tab { visibility: hidden; }       
    </style>

    <a href="#vm-tab" data-href="{vb:raw baseurl}/member/{vb:raw userInfo['userid']}?filter_source=source_vm&filter_time=time_all&vm=1" onclick="location.href=this.getAttribute('data-href');return false;">Visitor Messages</a>

    <script>
      (function () {
          if (location.href.indexOf('?filter_source=source_vm&filter_time=time_all&vm=1') != -1) {

              document.querySelector('.profileTabs').className += ' custom-vm-tab-active';
              window.addEventListener('load', function () {

                  var tabs = document.querySelectorAll('.profile-tabs-nav li'),
                      activitiesTab = document.getElementById('activities-tab');

                  for (var i = 0; i < tabs.length - 1; i++) {
                      if (tabs[i].querySelector('a[data-url-path="activities"]')) {
                          tabs[i].className = 'ui-state-default ui-corner-top';
                          break;
                      }
                  }
                  document.getElementById('custom-vm-tab').className = 'ui-state-default ui-corner-top ui-tabs-selected ui-state-active';
                  activitiesTab.querySelector('.conversation-toolbar-wrapper').style.display = 'none';
                  activitiesTab.style.visibility = 'visible';

              });

              document.querySelector('a[href="#activities-tab"]').onclick = function () {

                  var activitiesTab = document.getElementById('activities-tab'),
                      postItems = activitiesTab.querySelectorAll('.conversation-list li'),
                      profileTabs = document.querySelector('.profileTabs');

                  for (var i = 0; i < postItems.length; i++) {
                      postItems[i].style.visibility = 'hidden';
                  }
                  activitiesTab.querySelector('.clear-all').click();
                  activitiesTab.querySelector('.conversation-toolbar-wrapper').style.display = '';
                  profileTabs.className = profileTabs.className.replace(/\bcustom-vm-tab-active\b/, '');

              };

          }
    })();
    </script>

</li>

[wmfinck]

I hope this Visitor Messages tab IS going to be added to the standard release. Once I start having to add things such as this to my code, the Forum becomes a maintenance headache while I would rather spend my time on content production. That is why I came to vBulletin from phpBB.

[Wayne Luke]

You can filter to only visitor messages when you visit the profile by clicking on the filter link. There are no immediate plans to add another tab. However, there is a request to add one here: http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-4412. It hasn't received a significant number of votes.

Template hooks are custom templates and don't get overwritten on upgrades.