Username Change v1.2.2
Feature: Minimum Posts usergroup option
Change: Changed the Branding display method to inject itself into the copyright footer (underneath vBulletin copyright) instead of the page footer.
Change: Changed the Branding Free Key to a more secure key.

Fillip

When a user is in a Additional Usergroup it will use the permissions of that Additional Usergroup. How can I change this so it will use the primary usergroup setting?

For example:
User is primarily in group1
User is additionally in group2

Username changes permissions are now based on group2 but it should be based on group1.

It will use whatever gives them the most permissions (or in terms of input values; that has the highest value). Yes will override a No - if your additional group has Yes, whereas primary group has No, the result is Yes. If primary Yes, additional No, the result is Yes.

This cannot be changed, it's a staple of the vBulletin permissions system.

Fillip

Any way to increase the columns' width or move things over so long usernames are on one line?

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps4c2ee776.png

Also, I noticed there were no header and body backgrounds on Username History like under the About Me tab. Was that intentional; if so, any way to add them? I tried once with custom CSS, but it made things look weird.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps353a633a.png

I Need this Addon for vB3.8.7 please!!

Unfortunately there is just not enough demand to do it at this time.

Chris

we want for vB3 series, please.

can we make a option so admin can view all the changes taking place????

We currently have no plans to release this for vB3, sorry :(

You can do this already via the AdminCP, Profile Change History link on the edit user page :)


Fillip

you misunderstand me right now as it stands you have to go to each user profile and view the changes for instance if i change from llent to lent you as an admin wont see the change ..how do i know who is making these changes without a page i can look at i would have no idea what member is making them unless i go to every member page

what the admin needs is a page in acp to view these changes i want to know if xxx user changes a name and i wont know that because of the way it is now i have a ton of members and i am not going through each and every one of them daily to see what name they are presently using

Just checking to see if you might have overseen this. I posted it on May 17. :)

Fillip is there anything you can do ???? post 370

Forget it. I upload files again and works.

Feel free to post a feature request thread @ our forums - unfortunately we can't keep track of vB.org feature requests because these threads tend to grow fairly lengthy.

I don't know what you mean by the second half of your post, but you can alter the width of the columns by editing the dbtech_username_change_member_block template.

To be certain posts aren't missed, you should post in our support forums :)

vB.org threads are much, much harder to keep up with than threads on our own forum (as each question is its own thread) :)


Fillip

not sure i understand i thought that was part of a support thread to suggest ??? besides you already have a post similar to this on your site ...

It's up to each coder how they wish to utilise the support thread for their modification here @ vBulletin.org (if they support the mod at all).

If you look at our profile, you will notice we have 100 releases (at the time of writing). It is entirely impossible for us to keep track of the few feature request posts in the midst of thousands of pages of support queries, at least without the use of 3rd party tools like Jira.

Since we already have 1st party bespoke tools available @ our site that will allow us to keep track of feature requests indefinitely, we choose to tell people that in order for their suggestion to get taken into consideration they need to re-post it on our site.

Would you not agree this is fair? :)


Fillip

sorry i will stick with requesting them here ... if you have such tools on your site then you already know that there is a similar thread that asks pretty much the same thing i did on your site which you are the support or creator of this mod Fillip...

In that case, please keep in mind that your suggestions will not be taken into consideration unless there's already a similar thread for the suggestion in question.

Just because we have such tools does not mean we're going to scan through all the threads before asking people to post them in our forums - not every person is as descriptive with topic titles as we'd like :)

If you think about it, asking people to post suggestions in our forums may steer others with new, original ideas away from posting in these threads and towards our forums without needing to go through the steps of asking them to post there :)


Fillip

well i am not going to your site just to post you have my suggestion when you take care of it i will install it . if its something you wont do i will wait till a coder that does something similar to this ...

v1.2.3
Change: The profile block now supports the "Customise CSS" feature.

Fillip

I have added the feature request at Dragon Byte Tech, as I can see the benefit of this. Knowing who and when can be a huge help. Especially if a problematic member is trying to side step the staff using this feature.

Thanx!

You should make future versions of this have the option to charge for a username change eg: You may change your username once for free, after that it will cost...

But I like it :)

I just installed this on my forum and set the options to allow unlimited changes and now I'm getting a database error and can't access the admin panel to reset. Help!!

I can't help you without an error message, sorry.

Fillip

disable your addons globally via the config.php file on server and go into your acp and un install or disable the mod

then re enable your mods again

Let me see if I got this right. If I give someone permissions to be able to change usernames, they can change the name of any username on the site? There is not boundaries for this? Basically, love the mod will make life easier but givins someone unconstraint control pretty much nulls this for us. What I am looking at is if someone has been given the power to change usernames, we want it where they can change usernames for certain specific additional usergroups. Is this possible?

Not any just their own username

Only if you give them the "Can Change Others' Usernames" and they also have ModCP access.


Fillip

Thanks for the update

Exactly what I am looking at. That is way too much control for a moderator. Can you set it up to where it was limited to an assigned usergroup as primary or additional usergroup? Or add an approval system that when anyone wants to change their username, it would go the the admin panel to where an admin has to go in and approve it? Perfect mod, just missing control measures.

I think you misunderstood, moderators do not get this permission by default. You have to explicitly enable it for your Moderators usergroup. If you don't turn on this permission, they can't change others usernames.


Fillip

Username Change v1.3.0

ModCP Change Log

• Paginated results of all username changes
• Displays date of change, old value and new value
• Displays who changed the username
• Choose date range to display, or view all changes

Fillip

No that is exactly how I see it. For example if I give it to moderators then they have the capability to change everyones name to include admins, headadmin, etc. Otherwords, if I have 70k members, they could change all 70k names. That is way to much power to give anyone.

Then don't enable that feature for usergroups you do not trust with this power :)

Unfortunately it's not feasible to allow moderators to only change certain other groups' usernames, as that would introduce multiple layers of complexion.

Similar, vBulletin does not allow administrators with Can Administer Users to only modify users belonging to a specific usergroup.


Fillip

We have just upgraded our forums to 4.2.2.

We have the latest version of username change installed, and we have re-installed it today (just in case), however we are getting the following error:

Warning: Declaration of vB_ProfileBlock_UsernameHistory::block_is_enabled( ) should be compatible with that of vB_ProfileBlock::block_is_enabled() in ..../dbtech/username_change/includes/class_profileblock.php on line 119

Please can you issue a fix or advise otherwise?

Same error message as above. DB if you know of a quick fix or doing a patch let us know :) Keep up the good work!

I've updated the .zip file with a fix for this issue, can you let me know if this resolves it for you? :)


Fillip

The issue has been resolved, at least for me. We're no longer getting the error message on our forum.

Thanks ^^

Awesome quick fix DBTech!! Keep up the good work!

All fixed, thanks :)