Some don't want to use the new rating feature in UBBT 6.0<br />For those I put together some instructions for removing all these components.<br />Only some small changes in your template files are needed.<br />Just see the attached file.

danke Astaran <img src="/forum/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Pretty close but not quite there yet, I did this and it still leaves the rating table in place and moves the "last post" output into it.<br />I did everything in the directions but left postlist.tmpl alone and the option for user ratings are gone but the ones for messages are still there, I think I might leave it that way for now to see how it works out.<br />The person who came out with this "brain fart" of a feature with no control from the admin was obviously a programmer and not a webmaster. <img src="/forum/images/icons/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <br /><br />Anyone want to tell me how to remove the stars from the users that already have been rated. <img src="/forum/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" /> <br /><br />

Can you give me a link so that i can take a look what ratings still occur?<br />Maybe i missed something. I modified several things in my templates so this happens easily.

OK, I changed it back, here you go.<br /><br />http://coloradok5.com/forums/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=garage<br /><br />Thanks for doing this by the way.

<br />I checked my instructions i missed the display of the message rating. Will repost it in a few minutes. <br />But you have some other mistake in your templates. <br />Would you mind to send me your modified templates files? <br />I could take a quick look and hopefully find the mistake.

Just emailed them to you.

Ok, found the mistake. <br />The attached instructions work if you use the original templates. <br />

Ooops, now when you click on a post the post does not show up.

When you click on a post nothing is there.<br /><br />http://coloradok5.com/forums/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=garage

Looks like I had to just leave line 108 in showflat alone and it displays again.

OK, now everything works per your instructions, not sure what happened when I did it.

OK, I just noticed that the stars from before I removed the ratings are showing up in the profiles, how do I edit the showprofile.php file?<br /><br />Thanks

"The person who came out with this "brain fart" of a feature with no control from the admin was obviously a programmer and not a webmaster." <br /> <br />I agree wholeheartedly! And recommend that the admin. control option should be restored in the next version. <br /> <br />In any event, this thread is very helpful. Thanks!

Here you go:<br />showprofile.tmpl<br />find line 62-68<br /> <pre><font class="small">code:</font><hr> <tr><br /><td class="darktable"><br />{$ubbt_lang['RATING']}<br /></td><br /><td><br />$Rating &nbsp;<br /></td><br /></tr> </pre><hr> <br /><br />remove that too.<br /><br />Will update the full instructions when i'm back home.

Unfortunately this is one where it's going to be impossible to make both sides happy. The plan with templates was to give those users that don't like to muck around in code an easy way to change the HTML of the pages. So, wherever possible I put all HTML into the templates and removed it from the scripts. In order to have admin toggles for these would mean that the HTML would need to be put back into the scripts for these areas and by doing that the templates become less flexible as you'd still need to go into the scripts to make HTML/layout type changes.<br /><br />Hopefully we can get a template download area going. Maybe with sections for screenshots of what the modified templates actually do. Then it would just be a matter of downloading the altered templates and overwriting the originals.

Thank's DTS, one of these days I am going to have spare time where I can fool around with this stuff myself. <img src="/forum/images/icons/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Maybe the templates without ratings could be included in the threads package and a question in the install asks which versions to make default?<br /><br />Since it seems that many people doesn't want the ratings it could be a good idea to help them remove them. Downloading and installing new templates might be a bit cumbersome for a first time user.<br /><br />On a personal note, I'm not that fond of ratings myself but I think my users are and unless I get complaints I'll leave them in.

I liked the ratings idea.. but my users were going to mention it at the mere suggestion of it. We run a support site and there were whole arguments about how everyone is important and it's tough to get people to participate... now add the fear of being rated poorly. So I edited the templates to remove it.<br /><br />I would agree with Scream. If infopop doesn't have a problem with it, the ability to download completed templates that make basic changes would be a plus. Surely anyone trying to fool with threads to begin with can handle uploading a different template file into their server. But completed templates would be easier than instructions to modify.

The only thing about completed templates is that if you want thread ratings but not user ratings, your templates aren't gonna be compatible. Toggles for some things sound like a better solution in that if you don't want it, you just turn it off and it doesn't make it more difficult to edit the basic look of the template <img src="/forum/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> Otherwise, you'd have to have an almost infinite number of templates available to cover the most basic of choices... moderators/no moderators, ratings/ no ratings, thread views/ no thread views, etc <img src="/forum/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> <br /><br />I can make templates to look how I want them too, but not always the larger group of web site owners threads is beginning to attract <img src="/forum/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />