Yes that would be better imo. :)

Ohhhhhh Deceptor lol???

Eh? What do you think?

I don't agree. That overcomplicates mod/management without significant benefits.

May be, just function to bulk append (copy) templates from one profile to another one. Not more. But seems to be used in rare cases. The simple solution is just to publish all templates for stuff in restricted section of forum, and everyone will select those he really needs.

Exactly what I was thinking. I was gonna write a bunch of 'templates' in our Staff forum and just have the Staff pick the ones that they need to add to their own set of templates. I have about four 'main' areas that need moderators to reply in all the time. Each of those forums require different pre-defined statements to be made.

Vitaly and Lynne: For our forum (and I guess many other forums) it's really important that the admin and all mods all speak in the same 'tone of voice'. If you delegate this power to the staff by leaving them the option who gets to post/select what and in what way, you'll essentially lose that control. If you look at vB.com (the canned replies on which this mod is based), you'll notice they all post the same responses over and over.

Another point which I'd like to make from an administrator point of view: if you appoint new moderators you'll have to instruct them individually which templates they have to generate in their UserCP and point them to the admin predefined templates they have to copy and paste in their own templates. It would be far more easier if the admin (with help of the staff) defines up the templates/canned replies, store them in the AdminCP and selects which usergroup may use what template.

Actually, djr, there is only one canned reply here - it is regarding the licensing issue. All other mod replies are our own - although I know I'm not the only mod that has a text sheet of 'cheats' to copy/paste when appropriate.

I wrote vB.com, not vB.org ;)

I suppose best of both worlds would be needed really. Either way I'm setting up permissions to work both ways, either:

- Users can create their own templates
- Users can create their own and have preset ones (defined by admins)
- Users can only use predefined ones

So which way works best for your forum and you will be available :)

If you manage to do this I will match Vitaly's donation :D

Whoops, I missed that. But, I could have sworn that I saw a discussion about this on vb.com and they also do what we do - each have their own text file that they copy/paste from.