Panic Button - Cool New Feature!

**tsptalk** · 04-26-2009, 11:37 PM

Hi eveyone -

I have installed a new feature that some of you may find handy. It is called:

The Panic Button!

If you are ever on the message board, reading or writing a post, and someone approaches your desk who may not appreciate that you are on a message board for one reason or another, you can hit "The Panic Button" and it will take you to a predetermined website of your choice.

To set it up, go to:

- Your UserCP and click on your edit options link in the left menu.

- Scroll down to the table that says, "Thread Display Options" (just above the Date & Time Options) and set the Panic Button - ON/OFF Switch to "On".

- In the Panic Button - URL Jump field, put the web address (URL) of the webpage you would like to be taken to, including the "http://".

Some examples: http://www.google.com, http://www.tsp.gov, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss's_Day

Click "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page, and that's it!

You will now see a "Panic Button" on every post next to the quote and edit buttons. When you click on it, off you go to your default panic website.

To turn it off, just go back into the edit options page, and choose "Off".

**coolhand** · 04-27-2009, 01:18 AM

Wow Tom, that's an awesome tool.

**James48843** · 04-27-2009, 02:55 AM

Now THAT is the coolest thing yet.

It works!

**Steadygain** · 04-27-2009, 01:47 PM

I've got one (PANIC BUTTON)under my desk and another one built into the keyboard

Tom, you are very cool and this was amazingly thoughtful.

THANK YOU !!

**CapeChem** · 04-27-2009, 01:50 PM

Thanks....now can you add a 10 ft perimeter detection system that automatically activates the panic button.....you never know unless you ask!!!!.....thanks again

**nnuut** · 04-27-2009, 02:44 PM

I hit it twice already trying to hit the EDIT feature!! Might have to slow down on the clicks until I get used to it, good stuff though.

**tsptalk** · 04-27-2009, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by CapeChem

....now can you add a 10 ft perimeter detection system that automatically activates the panic button.....you never know unless you ask!!!!.....

We're working on that. For now, I'd suggest offering the sidlers a box of tic tacs.

**tsptalk** · 04-27-2009, 02:55 PM

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

Originally Posted by nnuut

I hit it twice already trying to hit the EDIT feature!! Might have to slow down on the clicks until I get used to it, good stuff though.

I just tried to move it to the right of the quote button, but it seemed to make the panic button a little less noticeable, hidden between a couple of icons. It might be a little less accessible that way. So I moved it back.

Let me know if it does become a hinderance - interfering with the edit button, and we'll try something new.