Version 3.4.2 is out

[sv1cec]

A new feature was added, allowing your moderators to issue "Alerts" instead of Warnings. An Alert is issued, as an early warning, to notify a member that he commited an offence, without really warning him, without adding warning points to his account. Maybe this is a new user, or you do not want to really issue a warning, this time, but you want to alert the user, that he did something wrong. Of course, you also want to keep track of these alerts, so that if that user commits the same offence again, this time he gets warned.

Instead of defining separate Alerts, you have the option to define, which of your warning types can be issued as an alert. For example, if you have a warning type called "Wrong Forum", with which you issue warnings to users who post their threads not in the appropriate forum, you can now have an Alert for this warning. When you want to issue an alert to a user for using the wrong forum, you do exactly as if you were warning him, only you select the appropriate option, in the Warn screen (Is it an Alert? If you answer Yes, then you are not issuing a warning, but an alert for using the wrong forum).

I also added a field, in which you can pre-define a comment, that will be send to the warned member, when a moderator issues an Alert of that kind. In this way, moderators do not need to type again and again, the same comment, when issuing an Alert.

Of course, a couple more options have been added, allowing you to define if you want to use Alerts or not, if you want to have pre-defined comments and also the duration those alerts will live (i.e. after how much time they will be automatically removed).

[vulture]

Would it be possible to have alerts similar to non-post warnings? This would be great for boards when PM is turned off but you need to inform a user to change their email address because of bouncing emails etc ...

I'm assuming here that the user can click on the alert and view it online as in the above scenario if their email is bouncing its a moot point!

Nice work :up:

[sv1cec]

Alerts are available for either post-related or non-post related warning types.

So in your scenario, if you issue a non-post related alert to a user, it will appear in his public profile and in every post he has made (there will be a red "Alerts: 1" line in the postbit). To see what the Alert is for, he just has to click on the "View your warnings" link/button.

All you have to do, is create an appropriate Warning Type and you are all set.

[Ski-Whiz]

The thing I was hoping for, when it issues a warning or alert, the pm it sends along with the email, have the link clickable of the URL of the thread being warned.

I'll post this in the features request thread.. :D

[sv1cec]

It is clickable. The member who receives the PM or the email, can click on that link and see the warned post, the post for which the warning was issued.

I am not sure I understand what more you want.

[vulture]

Alerts are available for either post-related or non-post related warning types.


My apologies. I guess I should have upgraded first!

[Ski-Whiz]

It is clickable. The member who receives the PM or the email, can click on that link and see the warned post, the post for which the warning was issued.

I am not sure I understand what more you want.


For some reason, the pm, and email has a clickable link. However the thread that is created in my admin section, the URL isn't clickable.. It's wierd. I edit the thread, and just hit submit, and yet the thread will NOW be clickable..

It's wierd. So if I edit the thread it creates, don't edit anything, just hit submit, and it will then have a clickable URL.. This seems odd..

Thanks for looking into this!! Great hack, as I keep tellin ya! :D

[sv1cec]

Ski-Whiz, what zip is your functions-showthread coming from? Are you using the latest zip?

One more question: How are you sending the warning info to your user? Are you using an e-mail or a PM? I think you are using an e-mail, but let me know.

OK, I've attached a new functions_warning.php file here. Please upload it to your inlcudes directory. That should fix your problem.

Rgds

[Ski-Whiz]

Ski-Whiz, what zip is your functions-showthread coming from? Are you using the latest zip?

One more question: How are you sending the warning info to your user? Are you using an e-mail or a PM? I think you are using an e-mail, but let me know.

OK, I've attached a new functions_warning.php file here. Please upload it to your inlcudes directory. That should fix your problem.

Rgds

I am sending both the pm and email.

I'm not sure what zip version the host is using. If that's what you're asking?

The new functions_warnings file does create a clickable link now.. Thanks!

Once you said it worked for you, I started looking at vbulletin itself.. You fixed it though.. I'm curious to see if anyone else had this problem. :D

Thanks again!! :D

[sv1cec]

The problem arised only if you were using email or PM AND email for your users information. You see, the PM requires different syntax than the email. The PM is internal to vB so it uses vB syntax ([URL=http://blahblah, the email needs <A HREF=http://blahblah>).

I tested the posting feature with PM, and didn't occur to me to test it with email. Since the email is last in the procedure, the parameter that was used to copy the message to the forum, was the one used for the email, so obviously when vB was showing it, it was not in the correct syntax.

Oh well, I am only human. Time for a new version.