Topic: Pages with option to include right and / or left blocks.

[vas]

Page is a great new feature in the 2.3 RC1. The page appears only with the theme header and the top menu.

Is it possible to include the selected frontpage items except the middle panel.

Or one step further ahead have feature that allows us to select blocks and the panels (right/left/top/bottom).

I have seen in some other package which shows a button for "top 50 shouts" and when pressed it shows user selected right and left panel in the page (minus the top and bottom panel - that is defined for frontpage).

[Eliana Tamerin]

You have to set blocks to appear on pages, just like with any other portion of the website. If no blocks are set to appear on any page, they will not show up.

[vas]

You have to set blocks to appear on pages, just like with any other portion of the website. If no blocks are set to appear on any page, they will not show up.

In the Block Settiungs I am able to see only the following pages.

Admin
 Profile
 Personal Messages
 Members
 Search
 Calendar

but there is no pages ... Am I missing some thing? Where to configure? Could You please help. Thanks.

[AngelinaBelle]

Pages is not one of the options in "Hide Blocks in Forum Areas" in the Block Settings section of SP configuration.
 
If you want to enable individual blocks on pages, you can individually turn them on from their individual display options.
 
I think I would agree that it would be nice to have the option to treat Pages as if they were a "Forum Area" for the purposes of being able to globally show/hide blocks from there. That would be a feature request for a future version of SP, I guess.

[Eliana Tamerin]

Biggest advice would probably be, if you're setting up a website, build the pages first. Then when you add blocks, you can add them around those pages, instead of modifying all blocks every time.

[AngelinaBelle]

Good advice for "from-scratch" websites. 

[vas]

If you want to enable individual blocks on pages, you can individually turn them on from their individual display options.
 

I am sorry I am not able to see any provision to enable. I am using SMF1.1.10 anf SP 2.3RC1.

Can anybody help me. Thanks.

[AngelinaBelle]

When you are editing the individual block, look at its display options "Show Block on" -- you can choose only one. If you check the "Advanced Options" box, you can choose several at once.

[vas]

When you are editing the individual block, look at its display options "Show Block on" -- you can choose only one. If you check the "Advanced Options" box, you can choose several at once.

Thanks. This sofware is new to me [SMF and SP]. Sometimes I am going totally blind even with obvious things. The advances option was there all the time and but my eyes refused to register it in the mind despite several searches. Strange. Thanks for help.

[AngelinaBelle]

De Nada. I am pretty much an SMF newbie, too. Experts here have helped me to get used to the interface and see the things that are right in front of my eyes, So I'm paying the favor forward.

[vas]

De Nada. I am pretty much an SMF newbie, too. Experts here have helped me to get used to the interface and see the things that are right in front of my eyes, So I'm paying the favor forward.

Kind of you.

[AngelinaBelle]

Kind of you.

Thanks. That's my intention. You do the same, and we'll make a fairer, fairer world of it.
 
AB