Sortable Spotlights?

[Elgin Clock]

Is there any way to make THIS page sortable by the username who the spotlight is written by?

Also is there anyway to see who nominated it to be a spotlight post as well?

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Is there any way to make THIS page sortable by the username who the spotlight is written by?

Also is there anyway to see who nominated it to be a spotlight post as well?

And is there anyway to search it?

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by Texan

And is there anyway to search it?

And is it fully updated?

[Brandon Martus]

Ok guys. What is this? Make Brandon work day? j/k
I'm bored. I guess I will re-vamp the spotlight page this morning.

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Is there any way to make THIS page sortable by the username who the spotlight is written by?

Yes. I will do that now.

Also is there anyway to see who nominated it to be a spotlight post as well?

At first I didn't keep track of this. I started doing so a few weeks ago. I suppose I can show that data now..

Originally Posted by Texan

And is there anyway to search it?

Not yet. I can make that happen now, I guess.

Originally Posted by TeknoBramha

And is it fully updated?

Yes. I made an admin page (finally) and gave 3-4 moderators approve capabilities. Your spotlights should show up within 1 day, rather than 3 weeks later.

[Bharat Nain]

Sweet! You rock Brandon.

[Brandon Martus]

Sortable: Done.
See who suggested: Done (older ones wont have that info listed)
Searchable: Not without 2+ hours of work. I didn't design it correctly 2 years ago. I can't do that today.

[MikeDubreuil]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Sortable: Done.
See who suggested: Done (older ones wont have that info listed)
Searchable: Not without 2+ hours of work. I didn't design it correctly 2 years ago. I can't do that today.

Added By column displays usernames and links, but the link doesn't have a userid causing an error.

[Brandon Martus]

Thanks, fixed.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Ok guys. What is this? Make Brandon work day? j/k

Sorry Brandon.. When I looked at the main page on CD this morning and saw I was the only registered user on the forums along with about 6 guests and 13 spiders, I went looking for new features on CD, mainly the spotlight page.

[BandChick]

Thanks for all your help Brandon (I don't spend nearly enough time looking at the site extras) but now that the Spotlight is better and customizeable, I will be!

[Brandon Martus]

Hahah, don't worry about it. I was totally kidding.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Searchable: Not without 2+ hours of work. I didn't design it correctly 2 years ago. I can't do that today.

LIAR! It only took about an hour and a half.

So now you can search the spotlights. It uses a boolean-mode fulltext search (you can use *, quotes, +, -, etc). Basically, use it as you would google or yahoo, if that doesn't make sense.

I had to do the whole redesign so the moderators could edit/delete past spotlights, so I figured I'd throw some searching in there as well.

Let me know if you find any bugs.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

now that i can look at who added the spotlight, Jessica Boucher must go crazy with the "spotlight post" button. She has like 29872984

[mtrawls]

Added By column displays usernames and links, but the link doesn't have a userid causing an error.

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Thanks, fixed.

Is it? The "Username" column works correctly ... but on clicking a link in the "Added By" column, the link produces an error. And on examining the URL, it is indeed missing a userid value, e.g.,

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/me...etinfo&userid=

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by mtrawls

Is it?

It was until I essentially re-wrote it all this morning, to allow for editing, deleting, searching, and better moderating. Should be fixed now (again). Thanks.