QuickClip - A Clipboard for Users
 

Introduction

QuickClip allows your members to store frequently used snippets of text that they can then quickly and easily use as replies to threads and private messages.

QuickClip is based on the familier Private Messaging interface, so will be instantly familier to your users and will help cut down support queries such as "Where is the such-and-such button?".

As the forum administrator, you can keep full control over your members QuickClips usage by limiting the number of clips and folders they can create, or even banning them from using it completly.

All of this is controlled by Usergroup access, with default settings in vBulletin Options.

Features

• Fully template driven so it will blend into the look and feel of your site
• Fully phrased, making translation to other languages a breeze
• Fully integrated with the vBulletin User CP
• New: QuickClip Reply boxes for posting your QuickClips in Threads and Private Messages
• New: An option to include your signautre when posting replies using QuickClips
• Fully controllable limits on Clips and Folders, including the option to have No Limit
• New: The ability to Preview your QuickClip before saving
• ...Plus so much more! Take a look at the screenshots below!

Installation / Upgrading

Please see the install.html and upgrade.html files in the zip


New in Version 1.1

• You can now reply to Private Messages using QuickClips
• You can now Preview new QuickClips when creating or editing them
• You can now select the folder to save to when creating a new clip
• The QuickClip Reply box no longer displays if the user has no clips
• You now have the option of adding your signature when replying using a QuickClip
• When viewing your list of QuickClips, BBCode tags are removed to make viewing easier
• Fixed a missing error message
• Removed some hard-coded text and replaced it with a phrase
• Fixed a bug which occasionally caused an SQL error

Credits
Thanks go to Danny.vbt for testing, to SomeName for proof-reading the Installation Guide, and for everyone who has made suggestions or helped to find bugs :)

My thanks goes to everyone of you who has installed QuickClip, and to those who have posted in this thread :)


Important: Unfortunately, my leased vBulletin licence has now expired, and I won't be renewing it until September which means I will be unable to reply to this thread, or update this mod until then. I'm hopeful that the great vBulletin.org community will step in to answer any questions in my absence though :) See you all in early September! :D


Further Screenshots can be found in the second post

Installed

How do I add it to my Quicklinks like you did?

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean - Quicklinks?

this is an amazing tool i think...
/me click "THANKS!"

Looks very good. I'm gonna use it on my new hosting site :).

[high]* derekivey clicks install.[/high]

Is this similar to the IPB topic multimoderation feature?
Where with the click of one button you can post a redefined message and "possibly" apply a specific moderation action, such as close or move at the same time too? Looks interesting.

This hack doesn't allow for modeation actions, as it's designed for all users :)

But it does allow quick replies of pre-set text (that you can edit from your User CP) with a couple of clicks :)

Wow lovely!

Could it be possible to make this feature accessible to certain groups only?

It has that feature by default. It's controlled by Usergroup permissions. Once installed, you will need to go into each of the usergroups you want to be able to use QuickClip, and set "Can Use QuickClip" to "Yes" :)

See the last section of install.html for more details :)

Edit: Sorry, did you mean add the moderation thing? If so, then I've no plans to add something like that to this hack at this time :)

Excellent mod !!!
Thanks very much.

Installed and working fine .. very useful hack, thanks Alan @ CIT.

Clicked install

Installed, Thanks, Nice Hack !

Awesome hack!

When I try to post, it tells me Permissions are set properly

Is this Quick links? THIS

Look in your usergroup at the bottom.

cool idea. does this just post in threads? what about PM, usernotes, reputation, etc...?

this is pretty damn tight.

when you edit your clip does it change all others?

Very very useful! Most appreciated!

You've outdone yourself Alan, thanks.

*install*

Great!
:)

Sorry, I can't seem to reproduce this. Would it be possible to set me up a user account on your forum that has permission to use QuickClip so that I might test it? Thanks.

Master: That is the User Control Panel navigation menu (down the left side). The first template edit mentinoed in install.txt will add that.

Antivirus: At the moment, it only has an automated way to post replies to threads. I didn't think about the other items you mentioned, so I'll add them to a future version's todo list :)

Chatbum: No, once posted, it isn't edited if you change the clip in QuickClip later.

Everyone else: Thanks for installing and using QuickClip and the kind words :) :) :)

I get the following error message when I try to open a private Message now:

jluerken: At what point exactly do you recieve that error? ie, when you enter the User CP? when you click the List Messages link? When you click on a private message to view it? etc.

Thanks,
Alan.

I get the same too, when I click on the message link in usercp

I can't reproduce this at all, but...

In the attached zip file, there is a file called class_folder.php. Please put this file in /forum/includes/quickclip/ making sure you overwrite the one that is already there.

This should fix the error. Please let me know if it does :)

Thanks,
Alan.

that did not fix it for me, and I still have the other error. I am investigating that it is not conflicting with another hack.

I think it must be in product Look at the id next to order.

FROM `vb3_quickclip_folders`WHERE `owner` = 3ORDER BY `id` ASC;

Indeed, and in the new class_folder.php, there is a space before order:

Which should fix the problem.

Are you certain that you overwrote the existing class_folder.php when you copied over the new one?

Thanks,
Alan.

This fixes the problem. THX!

Excellent news :) I'll update the main zip file shortly.

Fantastic hack. Must soon be a contender for HoM.

Thanks all for the kind words, and for installing this mod :)

(Note: As of this post, the main zip file has been updated with the fixed class_folder.php file)

I have questions:

1- When I use the quickclips, it does not show me my signature in the post. So how can I make it to preview it?

2- When a user didn't creat any new clips, it still show the quickclip table in the show thread. So, can I remove the table till a user creat a new clip?

Kind regards ..

BoYagoob: I'll add both of those options in the next version which should be released in the next day or so.

Superb - definite HOTM material.

BoYagoob,

In the mean time, here are the changes you need to make to add a "Use Signature" tickbox:

Edit the quickclip_replybox template (in the "QuickClip Templates" group) and find:

Directly after that, add:

Motion seconded! Motion carried!

Horray! I win HOTM! :D