Hey Ted,

sorry for late reply, if you are responding to me old chap you will best be served by visiting my site and scrolling down to "Review Forums".

My site is here: http://www.pipesmokerscubby.com/forum.php

As you will see I have added a forum for store owners to request inclusion of their own sites in product reviews, I don't especially want this there, I should like Products awaiting approval to be in that forum so they can be moved to the approved forum later. It would be a lot tidier and suit my needs more.

No problem if this is too much of a nuisance for you, I am okay with the Inclusion forum being there, not how I envisioned it but it works.

So essentially you're hoping that products added by users would all go to that forum while in moderation and then you'd move them to the correct forum when approved? Is that right?

Yes please. :)

I did ponder if it could be done automatically but of course it cannot, but I would need the ones I add in the ACP to go straight to the correct forum. :)

Additionally, if I add new products from the front end, how can I let the system know it is me so I do not have to be moderated, or does that make it too complicated?

I can meet this half way in the middle... While you're using the mod with just one forum, it's designed for multiple product forums thus I can't auto-move threads [because I wouldn't know what forum to put them in... it varies] but I can make a dropdown to select the right one and move it there.

Additionally, if I add new products from the front end, how can I let the system know it is me so I do not have to be moderated, or does that make it too complicated?[/quote]

Admin's have a backend product manager which has far more options. Unfortunately it doesn't get the pretty WYISWYG editor but that's how vB currently works.

Hey Ted thank you for this app I love it. One question. My text input is white in color where people go to write reviews of a product I post however the background is also white so people can not see what the are typing. Is there anyway to fix this?

Nevermind I fixed my own problem. Spoke to soon.

Ok new question. Everything is working great on the actual website using a computer there is just one minor thing. When using a mobile device and Tapatalk app the product review threads show up but when you click on it they say "This is an empty post"

Is there anyway to incorporate this to be compatible with tapatalk?

Awesome!

Oh my god, I cannot believe how retarded I am, there is already a way of doing this, well I think I am right here!

In the admin I can select which forum I submit my own Product Reviews to with the dropdown forum selection in the add single product, so this could be the formal Product Review forum. From here I then set the forum for Member reviews to be validated through the settings in the Product Forum ID in core settings, that would work, wouldn't it?

I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner. :o

Don't kick yourself that hard... the edit feature is limited and the forum dropdown a pain. In 1.3.0 (in development now) you'll only see forums that allow products enabled making it much quicker to move.

But yes, essentially what you could do is:

Forum A - products
Forum B - suggested products
On approval of B change the category to A

The other option would just be one forum... Since unapproved posts don't show up, it's the same effect without moving stuff for you.

It is the same thing but it is better for members to know that they have a forum dedicated to their suggestions. :)