Hi - maybe this was already asked - I apologize, I can't find the answer: in short, in Invites Tab, I have added few clarifying paragraphs in tab description field - however the description field is not visible to user - how can I make this work? Please advise - thanks
Tab description shows in profile edit and registration only. It does not show in profile view except for a few plugins which specifically render it in profile view. To show raw text/HTML in profile view you can use a Custom HTML field.
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Hi Kyle - thanks for the feedback. The solution you're referring to, would work well if I have a custom tab with other custom fields - then adding custom html field on top would solve this. However - and I should have formulated the question it that way - i.e. what to do with the invites plugin? On its own, it has only the button (+ New Invite) and tabular list of invited friends - what if I need to provide some guidance here? that Invites Tab stands alone on its own and I'm not sure how to change it, unless to hack the plugin and do the modification (thus breaking possibility of updates) - please advise -thanks!
For plugins you should be directly modifying their template files. Plugin tabs often do not permit fields as they break the plugins design and brings into question as to where those fields should even render.
For CB Invites for example to do this you'd create a folder at the below location.
TO:
components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbinvites/templates/mytemplate/tab.php
Now within CB Invites > Parameters change the template to "mytemplate". You can now edit tab.php in your mytemplate freely without risk of changes being lost on update.
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Kyle - just so I do understand it correctly: do I need to install an OVERRIDE of the default template (i.e. mytemplate) (like described here:
www.joomlapolis.com/forum/6-news-and-publicity/227459-cb-203-template-css-overrides
) - that is: to create "mytemplate" so that there is an xml file AND THEN I can modify the plugin template, referring it to the 'mytemplate' name ? or is the entire override of default template not necessary?
also - how do I call the description field?
Thanks!
krileon wrote: Now within CB Invites > Parameters change the template to "mytemplate". You can now edit tab.php in your mytemplate freely without risk of changes being lost on update.
Kyle - interesting - I missed that part of your reply - that's actually pretty cool to be able to override template on plugin level.
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