Love this mod and just installed it for yet another forum. They would like to make a couple of minor tweaks if possible. The first is they would like to remove the timestamp from the shoutbox as it takes up too much space for mobile users. Can that be done without editing the timestamp in the Date and Time options? The second is they would like to move the input box from the left to underneath the shouts, for the same space reasons.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Finally got time to read and noticed both are options in the paid version.

Hello

how can I let my guests in the chatbox also write,
Guests can read the chat box, but can not write

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I am pretty sure it's not Option A, so how would I begin checking for server security breaches?

How can I change the color of shouts? I have a dark theme, and the shouts are black, and it looks ugly with the theme.. How can I change shouts to white?

Does the Lite version allow for more than one permanent chatroom? Say for example, a General Chat, and a Roleplay Chat, as separate channel tabs?

That's correct, guest shouting is not supported.

Do you have ClamAV installed? That'd be a good start :)

You need to remove black from the dbtech_vbshout_editor_toolbar_colours template :)

Yeah :)


Fillip

I don't believe I do. 1.) How do I install it, and 2.) What do I do once it is installed?
Thanks :)

Sorry, I cannot answer that - there's millions of server combinations and they all differ. You'll need to contact your host.

Fillip

so why doesnt the sound work?

my shoutbox doesn't seem to work as supposed. no sounds, a lot of bugs and first of all it doesn't seem to be possible to edit shouts, delete etc. i used IE 9 for debugging and this is what i got.
This browser is AJAX compatible
Firing System Init
LOG: Fire vB_XHTML_Ready
LOG: Fetch Cookie :: vbulletin_collapse (null)
LOG: [2:7:38] Setting Sticky: Welcome .::StormZone.Ro::..
LOG: [2:7:46] Fetching shouts1...
LOG: [2:7:47] Setting Sticky: Welcome .::StormZone.Ro::..
SCRIPT5007: Unable to get value of the property 'permissions': object is null or undefined
vbshout.js?v=610, line 1801 character 9
SCRIPT5007: Unable to get value of the property 'permissions': object is null or undefined
vbshout.js?v=610, line 1801 character 9

and the line is
1801 shout.permissions = $.parseJSON(shout.permissions);

please help with that

If you are having problems with sound, please follow this check-list:


1) Did you select a sound to be played in the Instance Manager?
AdminCP -> DBTech - vBShout -> Instance Management -> [Edit] -> Shout Sound / Invite Sound / PM Sound

2) Are sounds turned on?
AdminCP -> DBTech - vBShout -> Settings -> Enable Sounds

3) !!!Pro Only!!! Are sounds turned on in the UserCP?
UserCP -> Shoutbox -> Shoutbox Settings -> Shout Sounds / Invite Sounds / PM Sounds

4) Is the QuickTime browser plugin installed?
QuickTime Plugin- Please note that you need to restart your browser after installing the plugin.

5) Does it work in other browsers?
If you only have one browser on your computer (Internet Explorer) you should try out Firefox.

6) Is the following text present in the source of the page: <embed or <audio ?
Right click -> View Source -> Ctrl+F -> <embed
Right click -> View Source -> Ctrl+F -> <audio
If this is not found, and all the above steps are completed, then you may have an out of date template. Please revert any customisations to dbtech_vbshout_shoutbox


If none of the above steps fix it for you, then it's a browser issue that we are unfortunately unable to assist with.

Please link me to your site and either make it available to guests or create me an account so that I can look into this :)


Fillip

Thanks great mod

How to install quicktime plugin?

I'm not sure as to why I'm getting the following error on installation:

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:

INSERT INTO `dbtech_vbshout_instance`
(`name`, `description`, `active`, `autodisplay`, `deployment`, `templates`, `permissions`)
VALUES (
'Shoutbox',
'This is the default Shoutbox.
You can change this description by clicking [Edit].',
1,
1,
'index',
'',
'a:8:{i:2;i:2108;i:6;i:4092;i:4;i:12;i:8;i:0;i:7;i :3964;i:5;i:4092;i:1;i:4;i:3;i:12;}'
);

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'deployment' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Monday, February 4th 2013 @ 01:36:35 AM
Error Date : Monday, February 4th 2013 @ 01:36:45 AM
Script : http://www.FORUM-URL.org/forum/admin...=productimport
Referrer : http://www.FORUM-URL.org/forum/admin...?do=productadd
IP Address : --.---.--.--
Username : Skyline
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.5.23-55

You don't need that with HTML sounds enabled.

That can happen if you have an incomplete installation which is then restarted.

Enter phpMyAdmin and remove all dbtech_vbshout_ tables then restart installation :)


Fillip

Hello,

Is this product still supported? I think it is an amazing product, however I cannot seem to get it to work. I installed it, attached it. (Yes it is showing up on my forums!) But I cannot sent messages. As for the controlls in the admin cp, I cannot acces those. It redirects me to my error 404 page.

Reasons for this is most likely because my website is a Moto CMS HTML website with vBulletin forums, whilest this product is based on a vBulletin Site/Forum.

Please help!

Please ensure you uploaded the contents of the "upload" folder to the folder where your vBulletin files are :)


Fillip

Hi,

I did do that, see :

http://gyazo.com/b6131fe37df0cfeb5a90f9390a291b2d

It is up on vBulletin. Thing is, it is not working. And when I try to change anything on the vBulletin admin controll panel, this is what I see :

http://gyazo.com/1ecfafab96994f990103652fc5bd5901

You're looking at the custom Error 404 page of our main website. Where did it go wrong?

~Cael

I might be able to tell if I can see your forum URL - that way I can verify if any files are missing from their folders :)


Fillip

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. Here is the URL of the forum that we're setting up:

http://www.gielinorevents.com/forums

It appears to be working fine, I see lots of shouts. Are you still experiencing issues?

Fillip

Some users reported this:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/580/scripti.jpg/
How can i solve it?

That is not an issue that can be solved - if their browsers are too slow to process JavaScript within a certain amount of time, that popup appears.

Sorry :(


Fillip

Is there any way to prune the threads easily, like say if there are 22 pages, just to leave the most recent page.

Hi all I installed the Lite version on my shoutbox vbulletin 4.2 when I open the page in firefox it appears on the Internet instead explore so there is a way to intervene and adjust all
thanks

I have an odd one here and was wondering if you have any idea's on what to check.

The issue is after being installed we can't get the admin panel to save changes to instances, or even create a new instance. We've tried un-installing then re-installing, no change, clear cache's, no change, disabled all mods except VBShout, no change, clear cache's again, re-installed again, no change. Finally we did a fresh VB install on our servers as a test site and installed there worked perfectly fine so we know its not a server related issue.

Soo atm I'm fairly stumped. Besides a few disabled mods and a custom style for the forums our VB install is pretty much a fresh install. So I have no idea what could be the difference between the fresh install and our live site. Does anyone have any idea's that I might need to take a look at?

/prune command prunes all shouts :)

Please try disabling IE7 compatibility mode :)

If you are running PHP 5.3.9 or higher, you need to set max_input_vars to 10000 or higher in php.ini.

You can check what php.ini file you are using in the View PHP Info page - observe for "Additional ini files parsed" and/or "Scan dirs for additional ini files" if you do not have access to the root file / are using a control panel like WHM that would overwrite the changes.


Fillip

Excellent that worked great.. I guess the additional usergroups / settings is probably what made the difference between our fresh install experiment (or something like that)

At any rate this worked great thanks for the assist

I know how to use the prune command, but is there any way to leave the last 2 pages instead of pruning them all?

The Pro version has auto-pruning of shouts older than X hours.

Fillip

Is it possible to have the shoutbox collapsed please on the index page?

I recently added SSL certificate to the site. Everything works fine except for chrome browser users. The shoutbox just hangs on loading. everything else on the site works with chrome. All other browsers work fine with the shoutbox and ssl.

Not by default, but the Shoutbox is collapsible via the normal collapse image :)

Are you using the latest version? There's been multiple SSL fixes, and we briefly ran SSL on DBTech without any issue :)

In either case, have them click the yellow triangle in the browser bar and load unsecured content - that will work.


Fillip

I have multiple questions as I am converting from vb3 to vb4.2.0 Patch Level 3

1) Does this work in vb4.2.0 Patch Level 3?

2) Is it possible to set it up where the chat box displays in a forum?

3) Does it display anywhere else, if so can it be disabled?

4) Is it possible to disable it for user use, at least based on usergroup? (want to control who has capability to use it)

5) Do you know anything about this mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=93097, if so with this mod https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=242071 work with it?

6) Will this go with the color scheme of our skins or do I have to manually change it?

Currently our shout box is setup in one forum and it is privileged based to get to it and that is what I want to setup. Looking at this for our current forum and another that we will be setting up in vb soon.

Thanks

Viper

1) Indeed it does :)

2) You can manually deploy the Shoutbox - here's the canned response:

Step 1: AdminCP -> DBTech - vBShout-> Instance Management -> [Edit].

Step 2: Change the Auto-Display Shoutbox setting to Disabled.

Step 3: Write down the the Varname setting. For the default shoutbox, it's instance1. The rest of this guide will assume you replace instance1 with the actual Varname if it is different.

Step 4: Enter the Style Manager and add either {vb:raw show.vbshout_instance1} (vB4) or {$show[vbshout_instance1]} (vB3) to the templates you wish the shoutbox to appear in.


If you wrap the variable in (I think that's the correct variable name, check the rest of the FORUMDISPLAY template to make sure) then you can control it per-forum.

3) By default, under the navbar on forum home. It can be disabled :)

4) Indeed it is :)

5) The second link is used to import shouts from the first link :)

6) Some skins may not use the stylevars correctly and as such require colour changes to the tabs. There's a CSS template for this (dbtech_vbshout_colours.css).


Fillip

Active Users Shout-bit: Shows the users active in the tab/instance you are, with the option to view everyone who can enter/exit the room at will (and thus see any shouts posted) in a pop-up to save resources. Perfect for seeing what's going on and who's around at a glance.
Where can I change this? I'm only seeing the users who are in effect active in the chat. Users who are only watching the chat don't show up in the list. I would also like to see them in the list.

A second question I have is what does the option "is auto idle' on/off ? What is the purpose of this setting? What should be used?

Looking for that answer as well.

Is there nobody who can help sort this out please? See my post number 2276!

You can't change that, it will not show users who are only watching the chat, sorry.

It controls what usergroups start their Shoutbox browsing session as "idle", meaning they don't see new shouts until they manually un-idle themselves.

This is useful for server resource conservation.


Fillip

So it's not possible to manually change adjust some parameter to get this done? Would be nice to have this in the next release do.

If I set the usergroup to idle= on then they will have to un-idle themselves to keep seeing the chat.
Wouldn't it then be possible to have them come in the chat as idle and they then have to un-idle themself to be able to see the chat. Because when they un-idle themself they pop up in the list of activ users?