Clearing out Shoutbox

[yzztik]

I've installed the Shoutbox in my board and me and my members love it!!

My concern is, it will get pretty lengthy eventually, so I would like to clear it out periodically. Is there a way to clean out the shoutbox? Like mass delete shouts from a certain date or anything? Any admin features with this or any other way to do it? Or does this by chance already happen after a certain time?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Kit

[bonnmac]

The shoutbox comes with admin feature that allows you to mass delete shouts...

[yzztik]

It does!? Can you tell me where because I cannot find it :(

[bonnmac]

Well for me it's in control panel under options.... It says delete shouts, just under vBulletin Options

[yzztik]

yeah we just found it. had forgotten to add the link. Thanks :)

[bonnmac]

Glad I was finally able to help someone..... :)

[yzztik]

Glad someone finally answered one of my threads :p How often do you usually clean out your shoutbox?

[bonnmac]

My board is new and doesn't have any members yet... just 4 of us.... I just knew where it was cause I installed it on my test board..... But I would say once a month maybe...

[osso12]

Well for me it's in control panel under options.... It says delete shouts, just under vBulletin Options

In the Admin control panel?
I can't find it either. All I see in the shoutbox and statistics, and a way to manualy delete each shout one at a time. I cant figgure out how to mass delete. Help.

*BUMP*
the easy way is to clear it out is in the sql database.

[louis_chypher]

I've installed the Shoutbox in my board and me and my members love it!!

My concern is, it will get pretty lengthy eventually, so I would like to clear it out periodically. Is there a way to clean out the shoutbox? Like mass delete shouts from a certain date or anything? Any admin features with this or any other way to do it? Or does this by chance already happen after a certain time?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Kit

There is an auto prune CRON job (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=885260&highlight=cron#post885260) that you can use. You can edit the php file to have the cron job keep x number of days of shouts.

[Rickie3]

just simply type /prune in the shoutbox and hit shout all will be deleted

[bashy]

think peeps are getting confused as to which shoutbox..

If its vBShout 2.0/1 then typing /prune deletes the lot
If its the other less technical 1 (forgot the name) then you have to use phpmyadmin (if anyone knows a better way then please let us know)