Welcome to Proboards v5!

[Margie]

If you're seeing this then we've been upgraded to Proboards v5 and you're probably excited, scared and confused about all these changes. I'm posting this to try and give a bit of a guide to everything that has changed, not everything may be in here at first and as I learn of new features (as I'm sure I don't know about them all) I will update this thread. A few of the things I'll be able to give you links to Proboards Support as well, since they've got stuff on the changes and will have better information than me. This whole post is also an example of the wonderful features and the built in enhanced ubbc.

Before I start listing off features, here is a thread with a nice few of the features explained that's on PB support. (Note that I've disabled Proboards avatars, you can play with the avatar maker but you can't set what you make as your avatar. I didn't see any need for it, as most avatars, apart from staff accounts, are going to be characters.)

APPLICATIONS!

Because of the new skin (isn't it so pretty? (: ) everyone is going to have to edit their character applications. It took me no longer than 5mins to do both of mine so it shouldn't take to long for all of you. Basically, go to edit your app, copy it into a notepad (or whatever other program you want to use), paste the new app template and copy over the information from your old app onto the new template.

There is a way to make copying it easier, you go from the [b] at the start of the first thing in each category to the end of the text on the last thing. DON'T COPY THE CODE AFTER THE TEXT. So for example, you start copying at [b]:: AGE:[/b] and stop at the end of the languages you've put for your character, not copying [/size][/color].

Global Accounts

First feature I'm going to mention because it's probably the first one you're going to run into. This is practically going to make every single RP site easier in terms of having multiple accounts. If you choose to have a global account (I think you get a choice) then you can have all your accounts under it. So you login with you email and a password and then all you have to do is click on which account you want to login to.

This also includes a switch account function which can be found in the small bar at the bottom right of the page. It has three little icons on it, the first being a way to switch accounts quickly and easily, the second is to switch forums (as global accounts are global, it means you use your email and the same password for all v5 PB forums you're on), and the third is your account options for your global account. The important one is the first one and it has to be one of the features I'm most excited about.

Now, to clear up the confusion I'm sure you all have, here is a video made Ryan Roos, an admin on Proboards Support, that explains everything I've just said in a simple way.




Enhanced UBBC

You know those snazzy tables that you sometimes see around? No, what do you mean no? Like my thread tracker, though they don't seem to be the most popular thing here, they've just become a lot more easier. Before, there had to be a couple of separate codes installed to use style codes and nice tables but now it is all built in. Here is an example:

letters are far apart and red border!

How did I do that?

[span style="letter-spacing:10px;border:2px solid red;"]letters are far apart and red border![/span]

Or, this is another example. This time, tables using div!

you can practically use this to make pretty pretty tables!

Again, how I did it.

[div style="width:300px;background-color:#fff;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:5px;"]you can practically use this to make pretty pretty tables![/div]

And here you'll find info about the new enhanced ubbc.


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And that's all I can think of right now. Please let me know if you see something and you don't understand it just let me know here or PM me. If you manage to find a bug of any kind, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. It could be something little that I can fix like a little code mistake or it might be something that I need to post about on the PB support forum, so please do reply here or PM me if you find a bug.