User talk:Shahid

Greetings - please leave me a message if you want to get in touch! Shahid 21:52, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Print/Noprint
Regarding my blog query about print on/ print off options.

It would be easy for my templates to shut on or off display if there was any queryable state that is different when the pdf generator is working. For example, in the edit state, __REVISIONID__ is null. I doubt this is the case, but I thought I'd ask.

Alternatively, give me a minor feature that is useful for other purposes that I can unofficially abuse. For example, allow users have MagCloud to access the articles with a particular user language setting. The utility of this say on a game wiki is that all the table columns are printed out in russian or whatever since the site has been good and used int: messaging in their infobox templates.

How would I get what I want in an unsupported, undocumented way? I tell my contributors to set the language to english simple. The templates check value int:lang, and if the message is english simple, I know MagCloud is active and I do my layout accordingly (no tabs, no edit links, and so on). This sort of thing would allow me to do a hack solution to the problem in advance of any real CSS solution.

Just a thought. Although our user base is small, I'd post the hack to DanTman's developer wiki so that other possibly higher volume customers of MagCloud could also use it. 22:18, October 22, 2009 (UTC)