The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

So I need to change the actual templates? I don't want to mess something up

That is by design :)
The site you are talking about probably has a 3.0.x vBulletin board with Xenon's original hack installed there.

The best way not to mess something up is not to install hacks. ;)
However, according to the manual you I believe that you DO need to change actual templates.

Thank you. Do you know of any way to fix this?

haha... ok I will give it a shot

Why do you want to "FIX" it? It's how it is supposed to work.

I'm mostly interested in the editing hiearchy.. how do I set that up so super-mods and mods can't edit admin's posts?

When I go edit.. I see some advanced options now, but do I have to do anything else so that the editing hierarchy is set in place?

Oh, it's supposed to be there? It just seems strange to have these edit options available before I even post the message.. Can I control you sees this? Is it just me, or my other admins, supermods and moderators as well?

Both boards are running 3.5... I actually prefer not seeing the option to edit before I submit the post.

On second thought.. That's pretty interesting... Maybe I'll just keep it as is. :)

Read hack description, features section.

Concerning the "see it or not", it was requested by a few people and that's why I did it. I am not going to undo it... Besides, the presence of that form doesn't harm you.

I guess that maybe this is the wrong hack for the hierarchy.. I might have misunderstood..

Yes, I suggest you use Xenon's message editing hierarchy hack for your purposes.

It's good. I like it now. :D

This hack is great, thanks!

I tested it out.. It worked fine.

Just a bit scary for me having more than one admin. Just in case sometime you are off on vacation and are in bad terms with another admin they can pretty much post under your name and IP adres and can write things that can ruin your reputation haha. So not for me, but I can see this working great for some.

It was great fun though for couple of moments, it worked really good. Good job.

But what am I supposed to do exactly? Can you explain?

Yo Vision, no reply yet?

No... Go to http://www.w3schools.com/ if you don't know HTML...
This hack involves just 3 templates modifications, and all you need is to move those modifications within those same templates to where you want to.

Alright, that gives me a hint atleast.

UPDATE: VERSION 1.0.2

Changes: The Checkbox! (See Screenshot)
Update: Simply uninstall and re-import the product XML.

Psionic Vision installed ;)
btw how can i restrict acces to this form to moders and groups who have rights to edit post of others peoples?
May be it's future request? :)
And another sugestion :)
на дефолтном скине все нормально но если скин не дефолтный то общий вид полей ввода отличается..... Вобщем то мелочь но не приятно :)

Читать умеешь?

хм.... но ведь это можно только для конкретного поста или я ошибаюсь?
Хотелось бы дать определенным группам права допустим на изменение автора темы.
Например: админы\супермоды могут менять все
Модераторы: авторов и дату.
Т.е. чтобы устанавливать данные права вручную для групп.
Я это имел ввиду. :(
Сори что ввел в заблуждение.

What the hell...

Nothing, calm down :)
The guy just gave me some feature suggestion in Russian. That's all.
I am not accepting that suggestion though.

I kind of see where he is coming from.

I trust my mods and am happy for them to have full editing capabilities, but I also like the Post Edit Hierarchy. So for me I would like to see that incorporated in this hack so a SuperMod can't edit an admins post by default.

But I agree that it is not necessary to have different permissions for different staff ranks (unless I misunderstood his comments, which is possible as my Russian is almost non-existant).

You understood it correctly :)

I would also like Post Editing Hierarchy be integrated into this, but for that I need Xenon's permission. Which, he won't give :(

Anthony, would there be a way to allow only SuperAdmins access to be able to use this? That would calm the fears of the member that posted he didn't really trust his other Admins if someone was out of town or whatever.

I could use this if that was possible. ;)

Yes, it is possible. :)
However, I need you to specify, whether you want to let only superadmins use the hack,
or you want to let only superadmins have the extra features of the hack, having regular admins as only mod/smod rights?

I would like the option of ONLY allowing SuperAdmins use this hack and then be able to allow Admins and on down like you have it now. Like you go from Mod to SuperMod to Admin for permissions. I want to take it one step higher to include SuperAdmin instead of stopping at Admins. Does that make any sense at all? Sorry if it is confusing. ;)

What would you propose as the ideal solution? ;)

Ok, gotcha. I'ma do the following:

- Add a new edit level, which is for superadministrators;
- Add a chooser option of "allow x-and-higer" use this hack; (Will have to figure out how to make custom choosers in admincp options)

What do you think?

Ok, sounds great!

Would there also be a way to allow a certain user to be able to use this also in case maybe they weren't in the proper permissions range? I will be happy with the above if this is not possible. ;)

No, even though the latter is possible, it would be an unnecessary effort, IMHO :)
Cause why would you want a regular user to edit post permissions? :)

Ahhjhh, but what if I want one mod to have the permisssion but not any other staff? Or 1 admin and not the others? You see what I mean? It just gives you that much more flexibility in case you get boards that have a bunch of admins they don't trust and a Mod or SuperMod they do, just for example. ;)

So be it! ;)

My faith has been restored. ;)

Looking forward to it. ;)

Your faith shall not have its restoration left unpaid ;) There will be a very convenient extra thingy added. In fact, I'm almost done. Testing it out...

EDIT: Yay, it's working as perfectly and flexibly as I wanted it to be.
Ok, making a new package now.

Has Christmas come early to the 'ol Boofmeister? ;)

Fantastic. I eagerly await the release.

I believe so. :)

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New Features: See First Post
Screenshots (+3): See First Post

Upgrade Guide:
1. Uninstall the product XML.
2. Re-install the product XML using the file from the new archive.
Note - do NOT use overwrite. Product ID has changed, some plugins were removed, some were added.
3. Perform the new file edit for functions.php (sorry, but I need a place that works EVERYWHERE in vBulletin. And they have no superglobal hook).
4. Upload the two extra files (to find out where, see the manual).

Please read the "Note" section in the 1st post to avoid the arousal of unnecessary questions.