[DBTech] User Spotlight v1 (vB3)
 

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present User Spotlight v1: A mini mod to show a random member on your forumhome page.


Why User Spotlight?

DBTech's User Spotlight mod lets you display a random member on your forum home page as a way to increase member commmunication.

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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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Priority support for this version is handled at the Developers Website.

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Translations available @ [url="http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forums/91-Translations[/URL]
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Major Features

ForumHome Integration: Members' details will show in the infobar on the forumhome.

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To Install:

1. Upload all files in the "upload" folder to your forum.
2. Import the product file via the product manager in your AdminCP.
3. Done!

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Feature List

• Random user selected every night
• Admin override of selected user
• Admin variables to limit selected users by number of posts, reputation and days active

Works great. Thanks.

3.8.6

thanks let me try it :)

I would like to use this with vbportal, how can I convert this? I think that listing a spotlight member in the whats going on section is hidden as most members dont scroll down that far

Agreed. Though I personally just moved it to another location.

I think a great idea would be having an option to set it at a few locations like how the shoutbox does it.

Above forums, Above nav bar, below forums, below nav bar etc...

Yeah allowing it to be posted in other locations would be great.

Also, in your code you have the collapse images set to your own custom template folder ("impact"). You should leave to the default /images.

No biggie...just an FYI to other members who can manually edit it.

Eddy, thanks for catching that, I'll fix it in the next release.
FreshFroot, thanks for the idea, I'll add the option to change it in the next release.

Is vBPortal even being developed anymore? I don't have a copy of it and from what I've seen it's a dead mod. Of course we could be talking about different things?

Just uploaded 1.1.0
Adds reputation
Adds Threads with link to search for user threads
Adds ACP option to disable reputation
Adds ACP option to set max width and height of Avatar
Adds ACP option to display below navbar or below Active Users
Will only display most active forum if user has permissions to view, will hide field if user can't view any of the forums
Also fixes a custom avatar stored on filesystem location problem.

Installed this, but it seems to only be showing the same member no matter how many times I refresh the screen. Does this change on a daily basis?

yep. Read the description! Come on it's not hard to read everything...

Sorry, must have missed that.

Lost at the bottom of the forum doesn't seem like such a "spotlight" to me...

You can also have it up at the top above the forums.

It would be nice to have the ability to enter how often it changes.

I would like to make it a spotlight for the week for example, so it would change once a week rather than every day.

I was actually thinking about adding that :)
I'm going to add an option to run the new user selection hourly/daily/weekly

I wouldn't mind to have something like this in my sidebar. What would I need to do for this?

I fixed a problem with some forums scheduled task on vB3. I also added the ability to specify the usergroups that can view the spotlight and if it will run hourly, daily or weekly.

Awesome!

I'm going to try it out.

Thanks for sharing. I marked this as Installed and I also Nominated it. It would be nice to make the Username bold (italic, etc.) and be able to select what stats to display, etc.

Another nice option would be to have the ability to select a check box to show other profile information in the user spotlight. Like signature, location or other added profile fields.

Be able to select Custom Fields would be awesome.

At the bottom of the DBTech AdminPanel says something like:

WARNING !!! This field is set by a scheduled task

(twice)

and the value is 1, if I change it, returns to 1. So ALWAYS show on forumhome user ID 1 (administrator)...

Forget it, works perfect!

It's changing daily form me although it is set for weekly.

Sorry about that, there was an error in the cron file. The new package I just uploaded fixes it.

Are you talking about custom profile fields or something else? If it's the profile fields I think I can work that in, I'll try it out.

Thanks I'll update it.

Yes I think the ability to select standard profile fields like the signature would be nice, custom profile fields would be good too.

It would be nice if we could get the same markups as their current usergroups instead of just the small black text. It doesn't really stand out at all.

Works great. Thanks.

but

how can i change direction to - right to lift ( rtl )

now already changed frome

dbtech_spotlight_userinfo Template

thanks dude : )

New version has ability to select to display:
Signature
Occupation
Location
Reputation

You can also display any number of custom profile fields

Switched plain username with musername (usergroup colored markup username)

Let me know if there are any problems.

Everything is working fine except for images. This is what I get for users with images:
Some small images do show. :)

Please please please make an option to display only members that have uploaded a profile image (not avatar)

and then use the profile image as the image in your spotlight section.

Most my members use profile pics and not avatars anymore.

It would be great if it was really a spotlight to emphasize the username even more than it is now. Overall fun mod. Thanks for creating.

It must not be parsing the signature image, I'll check the code.

I'll see what I need to do for that

What are you thinking? Like having the username larger?

How about being able to style the user name with css like the user title? (<span color=, etc. </span>)

Thanks for sharing this mod with us!

I could add the span tag in here with a variable for the style variables. Good idea :)

Thanks, I'm glad you got what I wrote. Looking forward to heard from you again. :p lol