Make Chat a new window

[Eric Enochs]

Is it possible to make the chat tab when click launch a new window. This way they can continue to browse the site but also chat in the new window

[Garooch]

Good idea

[RobRossiFan]

You can paste the chat feature box on the right column of the page so it will appear on the every page on the right. Like I did.

[TimG]

Easy. First, familiarize yourself with where the current CHAT tab leads you (ie. inspect the link/URL).

METHOD 1 (simplest): Use Manage > Tab Manager to check the "Open in new window" checkbox for the CHAT tab.

METHOD 2 (moderate): Somewhere in a text box, create a reference to CHAT. Highlight the word CHAT and use the "link" feature to insert the URL you noted earlier. Modify the A tag with the following TARGET.... target="_blank" ... which causes the link to open in a new window.

[Catman]

I want to launch the chat in a browserless window, sized perfectly to the chat size.

I need the address for the pure chat without a page around it. Anyone know how to URL that?

[Catman]

Oh, for those who don't want to have the chat on every page (and also not show on the main page), and not want to add another Tab....

Dont drag and drop the chat to the right. Leave it in the unused features area.
Create a subtab where you wish, under a regular tab.
Then make New Page and address it with your community URL adding "/chat" to it (no quotes)
Set to view by everyone.
Save

If you sub tabbed the Forum Tab for instance, and named it Chat, then when someone clicks that subtab, it will go to the new page you made and display the chat. Then outsiders who can view the Main page won't see your chat, and people on slow connections (like me, dial up) wont have to wait for the chat to load on every page.

It will also save some of that Tab real estate up top, which can get pretty tight real quick LOL...

[M. Sjöblom]

I'm also wondering the same thing!

Note that the new chat window should ONLY contain the actual chat window!
That means i don't wanna have anything else visible outside the actual chat fram, eg NO tabs belonging to the Network and of course no browser frame or browser buttons!

Forgive me Catman for interfering in your Q but maybe we get more attention beeing 2 people pleading for help from some friendly admin :-)

[Catman]

This is an exanple of the chat running in it's own browserless window, from a folder on my PC.
I also set it so it would launch from a button on the parent page. It is doing this from a simple .htm file, which contains the same codes for the components in the full page display, stripped of all the other coding that would show on a full page view. This chat from my folder is indeed live and online, but only works if I am signed in already to my community.

I tried putting that simple .htm file in webdav (xn_resources) and using the appropriate url to access. I see the background color assigned to the .htm file but the chat disappears, most likely filtered and blocked. So, this shows that a nice tidy launchable window is possible and quite easy to configure. The screen shot gets reduced in size here in this thread.

Note; I am not a programmer, just a self taught webby with very limited skills.

Screen Shot Chat Window
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[Felix]

how to put chat in tab manager\
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[Gogo]

Tim will the "target=" work for any link. I can use the link function and highlight a word and put the url in the link function box without problem. BUT I hate that it opens in the same browser window. If I change the url in the link function box to say target= and the link will it open into a new window?

[Gogo]

OH yes Eric I used Tim's Method 1 and it works just fine.

[chub]

ning of a shame, they do not have a good chat