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Forumbit and Threadbit advertisement timespan issue .

In Discussion , Project Tools , vB Ad Management , Bug .

Category: Unknown
Affected Version: 4.01
Priority: 5 - Medium
Type: Fixed
Fixed Version: 5.01 Beta

Subscribe to this issue 106 Forumbit and Threadbit advertisement timespan issue by jgommel.

I'm reporting this here even though you addressed it as a possible bug in vBulletin.org forum post 1866

The original post was in 1859

When I input a beginning and expiration date into the Left & Right columns, Forumbit and Threadbit advertisement timespan box, the time doesn't save. If I input the same beginning and expiration date into the Header, Navbar, Footer, Postbit, Header Archive or Footer Archive advertisement timespan it saves it just fine.

The date/time I input was: 2007-12-03 22:14:00 | 2007-12-14 01:59:00

BTW, for those that don't already know, the advertisement timespan uses the servers time, not the users machine time. You'll need to find out the timezone of your server and adjust the time you enter into the advertisement timespan box accordingly. Example: If your server is located in the Mountain Timezone and you live in the Eastern Timezone. Make sure you input the time you want the ad to expire -2 hours. So if you want the ad to expire at 20:00:00, then you would enter 18:00:00. This way, the ad will end at 8:00pm EST (6:00pm MNT)

By the way, I have version 4.01 installed.

Submitted at 14:59, 4th December, 2007.

Are you able to reproduce this bug?

108 Re: Forumbit and Threadbit advertisement timespan issue.

Thanks, will be fixed in the next release. This is caused by missing settings in the vb_ad_management.xml file. If you don't want to wait for the release:

FIND:

Code:
<settinggroup>
ADD BELOW:
Code:
<setting varname="adintegrate_forumbit_timescale">
	<datatype>free</datatype>
</setting>
<setting varname="adintegrate_threadbit_timescale">
	<datatype>free</datatype>
</setting>
<setting varname="adintegrate_leftcolumn_timescale">
	<datatype>free</datatype>
</setting>
<setting varname="adintegrate_rightcolumn_timescale">
	<datatype>free</datatype>
</setting>

By RedTyger (Administrator) at 16:27, 4th December, 2007.