Sidecar TV, Plugin Developers

As a follow up, please don’t edit our CSS files! Instead, make local edits, install and edit a child theme or use a plugin to add CSS.

sktrader – we’ve just posted 1.1 which has a feature for linked answers:

• Added feature so answers can now have links and info boxes with HTML.
• Fixed a bug when inserting DT in post or page, the DT modal rendering beneath WYSIWYG bar. We now render as expected.
• Fixed a bug which showed “Add Choice” buttons for answers. They’re now hidden.
• Fixed a bug where answers with no links don’t have hover effects like links do. Linkless answers no long have hover effects.

Thanks again for all your input!

sktrader – we’ve just posted 1.1 based on a lot of your feedback! Here’s the items from the release notes:

• Added feature so answers can now have links and info boxes with HTML.
• Fixed a bug when inserting DT in post or page, the DT modal rendering beneath WYSIWYG bar. We now render as expected.
• Fixed a bug which showed “Add Choice” buttons for answers. They’re now hidden.
• Fixed a bug where answers with no links don’t have hover effects like links do. Linkless answers no long have hover effects.

Thanks again for all your input!

hey again! We posted to another question how to do this using CSS if you’re of a more technical bent!

mmtf – The GUI doesn’t have a way make these changes, but editing your CSS does work. Note – please don’t edit our CSS files! Instead, make local edits, install and edit a child theme or use a plugin to add CSS.

To update all your DTs, just declare the .dt_radio_choice and .dt_button classes, as you saw. To edit just buttons on a specific DT, note that all DTs are in a form, like this:

<form id="decision_tree_area_9" class="decision_tree_area">

To change the styles on a specific DT, find the form ID, decision_tree_area_9 in this case, and make specific CSS. For example, to make just the question buttons on this DT have a grey background and the answer buttons to be yellow, you could do this:

#decision_tree_area_9 .dt_radio_choice { background-color:grey }
#decision_tree_area_9 .dt_radio_answer_nolink, #decision_tree_area_9 .dt_radio_answer { background-color:yellow }

We don’t recommend using these specific colors though, they’re pretty garish ??

We’ll be adding an easier, more user friendly way to do this in the future!

Thanks! Glad you like it.

– Sidecar

jameswcaudill – If you have steps you can repeatedly do to create a correct DT, please let us know. That is the critical information we’re lacking. To recap, this is what we’ve tried and been unable to reproduce with:

• trying on a multisite install
• trying with target="blank"
• trying with style="color:white"
• trying with a link
• trying with an apostrophe in the title, text or subtext

When you say,

I tried deleting the plugin and reinstalling, but the data remained behind in the database, so it was still doing it, even on a new DT.

Do you mean now that the instant you create a new DT it is corrupt? This is a new, worse behavior that we have not seen before. Please confirm.

mmtf – given it’s been a day and we haven’t heard back from you, we’re going to close this thread. Please post back if you still have a problem though!

Well, shucks, a bunch of testing with answer texts like <a style="color:white" href="https://www.sidecar.tv/foobar">link 2!</a> yielded no errors. Given that we’re now up to 3 folks who have this problem, we very much believe the problem exists, we just need to figure how to reproduce it so we can fix it!

resolving

Sorry again you’re still having problems!!

In another thread, you said,

Hello again,
I’m on the third creation of this DT And I keep corrupting it. I thought maybe the second had timed out somehow, though I was careful to refresh the page frequently before and during work on it.

Well this time I’m sure. Something else i breaking it.
Maybe it is my HTML inside the boxes above? I am running this on a multisite page. Anyone else had issues with that?

Attached is a screenshot:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwgXDEFppP5IMkRhbzVGYUFWQjA/view?usp=sharing

Here is the HTML:
https://www.my_web_site.com/online_submission/package_code.php?code=NN07bg

We run our https://sidecar.tv site on a multisite install, so we know it works with that.

Since you seemed to have ruled out the time out issue, the only other thing that’s left is HTML use which seems to be the likely culprit. We’ve still been unable to reproduce the problem in house though. Using the fewest amount of steps, maybe you can post here the steps which cause a problem here?

I’ll do some more spot testing tonight as well.

James – sorry to hear about your problems! Since you already have an open support thread, we’re going to mark this as resolved and work the existing one that is still open.

mmtf – ok, sounds good! We’ll keep this thread open for the time being.

mmtf – good to hear that it works on vanilla! we’ve done testing on a number of themes and haven’t found it be broke on them, but please let me know what you find.

Also glad to hear you didn’t throw your laptop out the window ??

cool – let us know!