PWE Game Panel (New Forum Add-On)

eiledon

The Game Sidebar adds an easily accessed panel to PWE Vanilla Forums with links to each game's home page, news page and specific game forum. The panel also has permanent links to the ARC Home Page, Charge Page and ARC User Profile.

You can find the file here: https://github.com/Eiledon/PWEVC/blob/master/README.md#game-sidebar-panel

Installation
Currently supported browsers are Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Opera. Support for Internet Explorer may come in a future update.
There are several ways to install user scripts but the easiest way is typically through a browser extension like Grease Monkey. Click the above link for more info. If you already have Grease Monkey or something similar you can just click this.

Features
Once installed, simply hover mouse over the ARC logo in the top left corner of your browser window (near the forum breadcrumbs) to access the hidden panel.
To access the links for a particular game simply hover over that game's logo and the links will appear.

Users can customise which games the panel will show by clicking on the Select "Games button" in the bottom right corner of the panel. Then simply untick the games you do not wish to see and click "Select Games" button once more to apply the choices and save the settings. These settings will be remembered between browsing sessions.

Screenshots
Panel - Standard View

Panel - Game Links Visible

Panel - Game Selection Menu

Panel - Filtered View with Menu

Credits
Developer: @eiledon
Graphics: Perfect World Entertainment​​

khamseenair

Nice to see this getting an official release. It's very useful.
I've updated my themes for the new version.

eiledon

Updated version of Game Panel is now available which works with the new forum location(s). Note I cannot currently amend the OP due to forum changes.

Notes:

I took the opportunity to change the addin script name so the file name matches the title Game Panel - if you have a version of the Game Panel addin installed from prior to today, please uninstall it and add the new version from the link in the opening post or directly via <a href="https://github.com/Eiledon/PWEVC/raw/master/PWE_Game_Panel.user.js">this link</a>

Based on the current set up of each forum, I have added code to detect wether the Game Panel is running within an iframe or not. If within iframe all Forum Links shown on the panel will be directed to the embedded version of the game forum. If running on forum.arcgames.com then the forum links on the Game Panel will use direct links.

Added a link within the Arc section to direct users to the ARC subforum (this one) and adjusted styling for that section to compensate.

The Game Panel icon will currently not scroll with the page within the iframe.​​

khamseenair

Only just noticed you'd updated this, keep forgetting to go check all the other sub forums now... Thank you for the update! This will make it much easier to switch between all the forums rather than having to keep them all bookmarked to go to the non-embedded versions. ​​

khamseenair

Ok... so I just posted and it told me my comment would appear after it had been approved by a mod... That's new. ​​

khamseenair

Not sure if my other post from yesterday is actually just gone, or if it's still waiting for a mod to appear and magic it into existence. So I'll just post my issue again haha.

Can you update the link for the "forums" button for Champions Online to point here
http://forum.arcgames.com/championsonline/categories/championsonline

The link it currently sends you doesn't show any of the boards, because PWE. ​​

eiledon

Funny I see the boards fine using the current link. They even pick up the colorful theme style.

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khamseenair

Is that at this link http://forum.arcgames.com/championsonline

If it is, then this is what I see there.
http://i.imgur.com/LB2PU0T.jpg​​

khamseenair

Actually, having just compared your screenshot to what I see when I go to http://forum.arcgames.com/championsonline/categories/championsonline
They have different layouts... This is what I see at that address.

http://i.imgur.com/hO4CO0j.jpg​​

khamseenair

Damn the lack of an edit function.

Thought it'd be worth noting that the layout I see at that last url is the same layout the embedded forums have. So I'm not sure what URL you're at that you're seeing a completely different layout. ​​

khamseenair

Did you have any luck tracking down the differences we're seeing on that URL man? Was it actually the same URL we were both at? ​​

eiledon

When I use the link with categories/championsonline it shows me this:



However when i click on the categories or home link on that page it shows me the image I posted previously (which is why the link currently in the panel points directly there). The direct link to http://forum.arcgames.com/championsonline works fine for me in Firefox, chrome (and even in Edge) Why you are seeing a blank page is beyond me.​​

khamseenair

Hmm, really strange... Since they both have different looks, I'm more inclined to believe that the one which has the same layout as the embedded forums are the correct forums for use. I guess I'll just remove it from the game panel and keep a bookmark somewhere for it for now. ​​

eiledon

sigh.. on the embedded forum - hit home.. it will take you to the link that the game panel uses. the /categories/championsonline link is also not where the categories link takes you within the embedded forum or here. pwe effed up as usual.​​

khamseenair

Yeah, I have the same issue with the embedded forum when clicking 'home'. This URL is blank save for the user bar at the top http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/championsonline/# which is where the 'home' button takes me
I can browse ok from http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/championsonline/#/categories/championsonline on the embedded forum, which is where the "forum" button on the Champions Arc page takes me.

I really don't get it. It's a nightmare how bad they've made the hubs with the "upgrade". Somebody from PWE really needs to get their finger out and actually confirm which addresses are supposed to be in use and which aren't, along with making things more uniform. I'm seeing posts on the version I can see from as recently as 20 minutes ago so at least I know some people are using it, I'll just plod along with it in the hopes that they at least use the same back-end and it's not a repeat of the initial issue with the old perfectworld url versions where they aren't showing the same posts. ​​

khamseenair

So, I figured this out! The reason I couldn't see anything on the 'home' area was because I'd had those boards hidden right before the latest "upgrade" where we got shifted off to hubs. I hadn't been playing it for a few weeks so I had hidden the main Champions board from the 'all category' page on the old combined forums. So the new site apparently remembered I'd hidden the boards, but gave me no easy way of un-hiding them since we didn't have an "all categories" button any more.

I tried un-hiding them from their broken down view via the other URL I linked, but that didn't work so I added ?ShowAllCategories=true to the end of the URL http://forum.arcgames.com/championsonline/categories/ and was able to get them to show up so I could go about un-hiding them. I'm now able to browse them fine.

Totally random issue, and something they may not have considered when migrating back out to separate hubs. I'll have to let one of the CMs know about that one.​​

eiledon

good catch - that explains why I had same issue with neverwinter - if you notice i left it pointing at categories version even though i hated doing that.​​

khamseenair

Yeah I had noticed Neverwinter went to the category view URL. Didn't realise why though as I didn't have those hidden myself before the latest move so the home page on those forums worked fine for me. At least we now know what was causing that, so I'm happy. See the random thoughts you have at 3:30 AM haha. ​​