- Ignore some comments.
For some reason the vbshout admin cp box did not appear until I updated my forum this morning. I was restricted to just the ones in the options panel in the admin cp. And this explains why I didnt see alot

Disable Active Users Tab? Is there any way.

You can remove the silly box that shows a list of them. But for some reason I see no option to disable the actuall tab . You can for system messages, Notifications and others just not active users?

There's currently no option to disable that tab because code in the JS file depends on that tab being there :)


Fillip

Question.

Why is there no way to delete custom commands? I have made a list but some needed fixing before i allowed users to use. Sadly now I can not remove any custom commands. It is annoying as it means users keep using the incorrect one

1. There is, simply remove the contents of the field where you normally type the "/something" :)
2. Users will not be able to use commands you create for yourself in your UserCP, so they wouldn't be stuck using incorrect commands :)

Besides, I don't understand why you need to delete them and then re-add them? Why not just make the edits and save them? O.o


Fillip

It wont let me.
I have tryed to edit them but nop nothing.

Another thing.
Is there any way to make global custom commands and make it so only administrators or people I select can create custom commands.

What I mean is say I want /smellyfish and i want all users to be able to use the command /smellyfish is there any way to do it.

And as for the second part what i mean is I want only me to be able to create custom commands no one else. aka restricting to premade commands.

Because custom commands do not affect anything other than act as a shortcut for a larger amount of text, there's no permission settings for custom commands.

There's also no way to create a global custom command at this time, sorry.

Fillip

Is it possible to do abit of editing in the actuall plugin it self and do it.
Im guessing there as to be an area that has /commands stored some where that the shout box gets its information from.

So im hoping that it is possible to expand and create the global command using the premade ones aka pretty much just copy paste changing the output and effects and bingo.

Also it would be a good idea to include this in the next update. As I am sure I am not the only person who would like the ability to set premade commands for all users and the ability to restrict access to creating personal custom commands.

Aka like a tick box that says
[x] Allow Custom Commands
and an extra admin cp tab to create global ones.

Out of curiosity, why do you need to restrict use of custom commands? Does matter if the user types "/slap Username" or "/me slaps Username with a wet fish"?

The user can do nothing with custom commands that they cannot do with text.

Out of 87 pages on the vB4 version alone we have not had a single request up until now to disable custom commands for certain usergroups - that I can remember, anyway :)


Fillip

Pretty much it is for a number of reason.

Well to start with having to explain to each user how to set commands does become annoying. Also with the ability to set default/global commands all users can access it allows us to keep random spam of the community. Also we run a trade center in our community and we wanted to add a chat based system also and give users the ability to type aka /sell /buy and allow users fast and easy selling there ingame items. With this also said we wanted to give are users a set command list rather than allowing users to create there own. It just means we keep the chat cleaner and have a more broder control.

There are other reasons but they all come down to simply giving us the owners full control over the chat box and custom commands instead of leaving it to our members.

And as for the fact no one has asked maybe not many people have experimented with the function of custom commands. Maybe most do not know it even exists as most people dont bother going into the options and looking for the new tab for vbshout. This is not just a guess its just what most people do. I have used vb for years normally I dont ever go into my options other than to change my signature or custom title and most people are the same so again another reason for global set commands. Also maybe because your explination on how to set custom commands was also alittle hard to under stand. Most people wouldnt understand that {1} simply allows an text imput after the / command.