Need to vent...

Are you using a computer or a smart phone?

 

I think if you scroll down below the place where you type your message you'll find some button to click on that says "Manage Attatchments" that takes you to a place that asks where you want to browse for a photo. Choose to go to where your images are saved (desktop, pictures, etc) and select the image. I think you double click on it. Then go back to Manage Attatchments. I'm telling you this from memory so good luck, man. Oh, when you think you got it, click on preview post to see if it worked.

 

Wow, I totally and very respectfully disagree! vBulletin is the Cadillac of forum software guys. It has more bells and whistles and professional development than any software I've ever seen.

If you are uploading a bunch of attachments to a post and they need no further explanation, then use the attachment manager and you can upload a whole bunch of photos at once and they appear in this format (example).

However, if you need to post a picture, then a comment, then a picture, and so on, use the gallery (or albums) feature.

Create an album and upload your pictures. Then, you can select photos as simply as putting your mouse over a photo and copying the URL and using the add image icon. This will give you total control over the formatting.

An example follows:

Here's a photo.



Here's another one:



When you do that, it is best to uncheck the box "Retrieve remote file and reference locally." It won't help.

Here's another photo and this text would describe it:



This could go on and on and it is really pretty simple.

Maybe that's easy for me to say but I've been using this software for over 10 years and before that, the software of other vendors.

vBulletin rose from the ashes of the competition between software vendors of forum software to become the best one out there.

The bells and whistles will allow you to do a lot and it's pretty simple to learn.

If someone does not know how to do something, we can do tutorials.

Charlie

 

Here's a little more help.

When you go to the advanced editor, you see a bunch of buttons.

See the button in this screenshot:



This button let's you switch between an enhanced display, and the actual code.

Now, I don't want to lose people here so hold on. This is pretty simple.

In Dereck's last post to his Highline thread, the regular post looks like this:



But, if you hit that button, it looks like this:



Now, you can edit that stuff.

More to follow in next post....

 

You can hit that little button and edit the code:

 

Now, here's a real easy way to do the same thing. You have to "Go Advanced" and then you click "Manage Attachments."



Upload your photo(s), then when they are in the attachment manager, you can arrange things the way you want. Use the "Insert Inline" feature to pop them into your post as you choose.

Once they are in, you can always edit the order or the text between photos, etc.

 

Wow, I'm sorry to hear that you've given up.

For anyone who has not given up, I will be glad to help you. Just feel free to ask. vBulletin has gotten better with every update.

Charlie

 

I can assure you that the Trainz software is 10,000 times more complicated that posting here.

To make this more simple let me ask you this, do you see the difference between using the "Insert inline" feature and just uploading a group of photos?

Charlie

 

I understand that would be annoying but I haven't seen that. Let me look at that in one of your posts and I will get back to you.

Insert inline explained: Let's say you uploaded three images that you are going to put in a post and they appear in the attachment manager. On a post where you uploaded a bunch of attachments and they appear as thumbnails you just have a box that says attachments. I think what you want to do is post an image and then comment and repeat that process.

You drag an image down into the bottom box (it would have a checkmark in the little box) and then click "Insert inline." That image would go into the post and you can then use the editor to comment under (or above) the photo.

That can be repeated over and over and what it does is like using an editor to create a web page, You can move the pictures around, etc.

I have not seen any unpredictable behavior on Frisco.org or TrainBoard. To me this is really easy but everyone sees things from a different perspective. I certainly have not been able to master the Trainz software.

The picture code (when you use that little icon over on the right (A/A) you can see the actual code and you can move that stuff around at will to make it look like you want.

Would you like me to do a screenshot tutorial start to finish on this?

Charlie

 

I'll try to do a tutorial later tonight if I have time. I am just not sure that I understand what you are trying to do. Is your goal something like what I did in post #7?

Charlie