Tried a few threads, no luck in changing "New Discussion" to "Ask a Question". Running 2.1

hydn

I'm trying to change the default button from "New Discussion" to "Ask A question"
I've tried this: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/21975/how-to-force-ask-a-question-instead-of-new-discussion

But it didn't change much. The biggest change or closest I got to the solution was this:

you also probably want to add this to one of your locale definitions files, or plugins/QnA/locale/en-CA.php or conf/locale.php

$Definition['Start a New Discussion'] = 'Ask a Question';

But all that did was change the button text to "Ask a Question" but the link still takes you to new discussion also the dropdown ended up having 2 "Ask a Question" options.

I just wanted the button to default to "Ask a Question" and the down arrow offering the option to click "New Discussion"

Is this possible on self hosting?h

mcu_hq

No, I didn't. See above for the posted solution. If someone could edit that post to make it seem legible, that would be greaaat. Not sure why our editor here is always seems to do that.

Don't use the mangled code above, just use the code in this link:

http://pastebin.com/cuxmr1Zg

Linc

In your config.php, set Vanilla.DefaultNewButton = "post/question"

hydn

Made it look like the others and it works:
$Configuration['Vanilla']['DefaultNewButton'] = 'post/question';

hydn

My only prob now is that there now style for the buttons. See screenshot...

How do I make those into buttons? Is there something I can add to customs.css

mcu_hq

Edit: This is for a related alterative fix for this topic here: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/161856/

Edit: further testing showed that simply changing the view caused problems when editing existing.

Ok, here is my solution:

- Open up the `class.qna.plugin.php` at `.../vanilla/plugins/QnA/class.qna.plugin.php`
- Locate lines 392 and change the function `PostController_Render_Before($Sender,$Args)` to the following:

`public function PostController_Render_Before($Sender, $Args) {
        $Form = $Sender->Form; //new Gdn_Form();
        $QuestionButton = !C('Plugins.QnA.UseBigButtons') || GetValue('Type', $_GET) == 'Question';
        if (!$Form->IsPostBack()) {
            if (!$Form->GetValue('Type')) { // Enter here when editing a new discussion  OR new thread/question
                if (property_exists($Sender, 'Discussion'))
                    $Form->SetValue('Type', 'Discussion'); // Editing an existing discussion 
                else
                    $Form->SetValue('Type', 'Discussion');  // Place your default route if starting a new question/thread here!
            }
            else
                $Form->SetValue('Type', 'Question'); // If not editing an existing discussion, must be a question

// The following is old from 2.0.18.4
//         if (!property_exists($Sender, 'Discussion')) {
//            $Form->SetValue('Type', 'Question');
//         } elseif (!$Form->GetValue('Type')) {
//            $Form->SetValue('Type', 'Discussion');
//         }
        }`
`

You place the default route, whether it be `Question` or `Discussion` in the code above. 

There are three test cases:

 1. Begin a new thread and check to see that your default route is the active one
 2. Edit an existing question and make sure the correct button is selected
 3. Edit an existing discussion  and make sure the correct button is selected 

hydn

Did you reply to the wrong thread maybe?

mcu_hq

No, I didn't. See above for the posted solution. If someone could edit that post to make it seem legible, that would be greaaat. Not sure why our editor here is always seems to do that.

Don't use the mangled code above, just use the code in this link:

http://pastebin.com/cuxmr1Zg

UnderDog

@mcu_hq said:
If someone could edit that post to make it seem legible, that would be greaaat.

You like the improvement?

hydn

@mcu_hq said:

Thank you. I did get it to work but my only problem is that there's no style/buttons.

Problem:
On domain.com/post/discussion/ the option show as text as if there's no CSS style. Where can I add the style? custom.css? I'm using v2.1 beta.

In my style.css there's no class "QnAButton TabLink"

Click the image below you see the post options show as plain text instead of active and inactive buttons.

thanks

vrijvlinder

You would edit the plugin's style for that , if it does not have a style sheet you could just add one. A link to the problem would be helpful and more efficient .

hydn

I upgraded to this version:
https://github.com/vanillaforums/Addons/tree/release/2.1b1/plugins/QnA

It does not have any option to switch back and forth on the post page. So no need for buttons.

Looks a lot like whats used here in this forum

vrijvlinder

The name of the class for the buttons is a.BigButton.NewDiscussion or
a.QnAButton.TabLink, you can add style to them via the custom.css I believe.

echo Anchor(T('Ask a Question'), '/post/discussion?Type=Question', 'BigButton NewDiscussion');

Linc

In your config.php, set Vanilla.DefaultNewButton = "post/question"

hydn

I tried Vanilla.DefaultNewButton = "post/question"
but it breaks forum with:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /html/conf/config.php on line 116

hydn

Made it look like the others and it works:
$Configuration['Vanilla']['DefaultNewButton'] = 'post/question';

Linc

Yes, "Vanilla.DefaultNewButton" is just shorthand, not what you paste into the config.

hydn

Ok now that the "ask a question" is now default in the left column. How do I insert an image between the button and the start of the category list?

thx