Have one question:

When I have a post with attachment and then I write another post - they aren't merged into one. Same situation when I have normal post and after that write another post with attachment - no merge them...

is this normal ?

Yep, right now posts with attachments aren't merged

maybe i will add that functionality in a later version

Been using this since vB2. Though I just had someone able to make a double post shortly after posting a new thread.

well, there can be reasons that a dp is allowed (attachments for example or breaking the posting rules in another way (to much images/chars...))

Yeah, these posts were basically a load of smilies an a bit of text. :D

Edit: Yes those smilies in the first post reached the number-of-images limit.

:)

well i don't want to change that, because merged illega posts would be non editable, orr have to be altered to be legal again, so too much pain for the users

the default is to have 2 lines in between the automerged posts....however there are 0 spaces being created. Is there anyway to fix this?

erm?

sorry i think i don't get what you want

ok well here is an example then:

post1 and post2. When they are merged they look like:

post1post2

instead they are suppose to be merged like:

post1
(2lines)
post2

the two \n are doing the line separators, if they don't get separated on your board, you may have downloaded a corrupted file, just redownload it again and install again

I looked in my options and it says "Double Post Spacer: (blank)"

I tried entering "two blank lines" but that didn't work. How do you properly edit this field? What do I have to enter in order to get 2 lines spacing in between merged posts?

THX for the Plug-In, but how can I exclude guests?

For moderators I can use !can_moderate(). Is it possible at the same way for guests?

in vbulletin options > message posting options > doubleposting.....can someone please tell me how to properly edit this field. Is it txt, a numeral etc????

Where abouts do I add this code?

This is a great hack ;)

@Nathan: into the Additional Condition Field :)

@Pathor: is the condition you need :)

THX Xenon! :)

sorry to be a pain, but doesn't anyone know how to edit this field? What if I wanted 10 lines in between the merged posts?

Hi Xenon,

I added the code but received this error when posting.

Thanks for any help :)

remove the end in front ot the code ;)

Hi,

Do you mean the "!AND" So it looks like this?

I have tried this and the double posts are still stopping the admin and mods posting single posts :(

Is there any way around this?

Thanks for your help

ok I've attached a pic to make things easier. How do I edit the indicated field? Do you use numerical numbers? written text? etc....

@nathan:

use:
@Froggy: well you can enter any text/value in there, but the field is trimed so spaces or new line chars don'T work...

Xenon

Honestly all I want to do is put spaces in between the posts when they are merged. My problem is when they get merged, they get crammed right together so you have a hard time reading it. Then you have to manually edit the post to correct it. oh and I re-uploaded the product and still there is no spacing in between the merged posts.

Thanks Xenon working great now

Thank you for your help :D

@Nathan: you're welcome

@Froggy: well the two spaces are entered automatically no matter about what you enter into the field, so if they are not entered into your posts, than it's another problem, which i don't really know how to fix....

you can see the default version here on vb.org which is working perfectly...

maybe another plugin or code hack is on a conflict here...

In the admincontrolpanel >> vBulletin Options >> Doublepost Preventing

you'll find
Post Separator
Enter any message you want to appear between two posts.

in that box you can put

two lines will appear between posts

or enter some text saying like "post below was merged with post above"

you can even add an image by putting
In the box




__

Well I must have a problem because if I put your <hr> <hr> code this is the result.

post1<hr> <hr>post2

same if I put your image code it just shows up as

post1<br> <img src="http://www.domainlink.com/imagename.gif"> <br>post2 (of course I edited the filepath though).

I can't for the life of me get 2 spaces in between posts. I wonder would there be some way to create a BB code for blank spaces? then I could perhaps use that? I dunno I'm trying anything at this point.

and mine is located in vbulletin options >> message posting and editing options>

I assume you meant the same, but thought I would check incase the plugin isn't installing properly. I'm going to try uninstalling this time and then re-installing.

oh I see what happened......hrm weird. Could I have 2 different plugins installed? Cause I uninstalled the plugin and it was gone from vbulletin options >> message posting and editing options

however it was still there....now I find it under vbulletin options >> prevent doubleposting.

I use your code and ok it works now, but it looks like

post1
<hr> <hr>
post2

Is there anything I can enter to simply get blank lines?

ahh I got it finally.....I just simply hit the enter key a few times and voila I got blank lines in between posts....so it's

post1

post2

I want to exclude 4 forums and exempt Mods,S-Mods and Admins. I just wanted to confirm this code was right. It seems to work but just double checking. Great job getting this to be a plug in. :)

EDIT: On second thought, I also want to exempt people who can moderate. Would that be?

@Explorer: jep, but as admins will always be can_moderate normally you can strip it down to:

@Froggy: glad to hear. that's what i meant, there must have been a incorrect install...

Same Problem here.

@Xenon

I think you said the Hack is installed here?

yep it is

but modification threads are excluded :)

as you have the same problem as froggy, read about how he solved it.
seems like an install bug!

Well I hammered my enter key to death. ;)

Will try to overwrite the product or de - and install it again.

will edit this post if it worked.

Yeah me too and I cannot get the <hr> <hr> tags to work at all :(

I have tried them above, below the text and 1 above and 1 below the text and they just appear in the posts :(

I was able to get the hr in there but I had to define a custom bb code for it first. The only bb code for hr that I was able to make work was


then in the Doublepost Preventing options I have for the post separator.

tHIS is kinda cool cause I have a user that posted 16 posts after each other but I wait until alpha ;)

Alpha?

no idea what you mean.

btw the beta version is working, it's just still in beta, because i would like to add one feature the vb3.0 version had...

I haven't gone through all 27 pages of this thread but I noticed that merging doesn't work whenever a post contains an attachment and it doesn't matter where in the chain it's posted.