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Public area => The Pub => Topic started by: live627 on January 13th, 2013, 04:43 AM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20984820
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Yes, I saw that. All I'm seeing is 'I need to drop the template for MSN in the Custom Fields and add a Skype template instead'.
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Good call!
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Did you check out that fun part of the Custom Profile Fields? Aside from the fact I moved it, I gutted the original fixed fields in SMF and made them all into templates in the CPF, meaning that you can add whichever ones you want, easily, with sane presets on everything.
Removing the MSN entry is basically removing a few lines of code and the image, adding the Skype one is marginally more effort since I need to know what the format should be for Skype items (is it just an email address?)
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Did you check out that fun part of the Custom Profile Fields? Aside from the fact I moved it, I gutted the original fixed fields in SMF and made them all into templates in the CPF, meaning that you can add whichever ones you want, easily, with sane presets on everything.
Removing the MSN entry is basically removing a few lines of code and the image, adding the Skype one is marginally more effort since I need to know what the format should be for Skype items (is it just an email address?)
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So what's the allowed format for that username? If I can find that out, plus a place where it should link to, I can add Skype and drop MSN with minimal effort.
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So what's the allowed format for that username? If I can find that out, plus a place where it should link to, I can add Skype and drop MSN with minimal effort.
Your Skype Name is your unique username for Skype. It must be between 6-32 characters, start with a letter and contain only letters and numbers (no spaces or special characters).
I can't seem to find a place specifically for the user (such as a profile) to link to.
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Also, just thought about this... what if people use it to indicate their email in case people want to contact them? Would that not necessarily be a valid reason to leave it?
Just instead direct it to point to a mailto link?
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Also, just thought about this... what if people use it to indicate their email in case people want to contact them? Would that not necessarily be a valid reason to leave it?
Just instead direct it to point to a mailto link?
http://www.skype.com/intl/en/tell-a-friend/get-a-skype-button/
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Well, there is, but it doesn't show their email address as such.
It's a tough one to call, but it's late here and I think I'm going to sleep on this before trying to figure out exactly what to do with it.
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Note that these days Skype allows you to sign in with a Microsoft account as well. I can't shake the feeling Skype usernames are going to be deprecated at some point.
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The format should be simply http://myskype.info/myskypename. The button will prob. check the staus, but I opted for status-free icon instead in my fork.
Actually I changed all 4 there: MSN, ICQ, AOL and YIM are now Skype, Twitter, Facebook and Google+. :)
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Mmm...correction: "myskype.info" is an external site to skype.com, so I am using "skype:{profilename}?userinfo", that will open fin in Skype if you are logged in.
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Mmm...correction: "myskyp.infoe" is an external site to skype.com, so I am using "skype:{profilename}?userinfo", that will open fin in Skype if you are logged in.