[DBTech] Follow User v1 (vB4)
 

What is Follow User?
Follow User from DragonByte Tech is a modification designed to allow members to follow one another in different social aspects of the forum. When a followed user completes an action such as a new post or a new thread, the followers receive either an email and/or PM updates based on their preference.

Follow User allows users to follow one another and get notifications when the member they follow complete certain actions.

Email and private messaging notifications, usergroup permission controls, and privacy options are all included in this product.

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Major Features
Ability for users to follow each others posts / threads with a pm or email notification.

Privacy: Users can make it so their following is private.

General Settings:

• Option to toggle the Navtab on/off for vB v4.1.x
• Option to toggle the Quick Links and Community menu links on/off for vB v4.1.x
• Option to toggle plugin on or off.
• Ability to enter the closed reason if you turned the mod off via the above option.
• Option to hide the version number in the footer.
• Option to define who sends the PM notice.
• Option to show the PM senders signature in the pm sent to followers.
• Ability to choose which usergroups are allowed Private Follows.
• Option to show the users follow/following stats in the postbit.
• Ability to choose seven different locations to show the follow/following stats in the postbit.
• Option to show the users avatar on the Follow User settings page in the usercp.
• DBTech Affiliate ID support.

Usergroup Permissions:

• Can Be Followed
• Can View User Follow
• Can Follow

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of Show Thread and product pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

I think it would be good to have an option to have it added to the user profile, and instead get a notification and when you click on your notification you get sent to your profile tab for it instead of having a pm.

1+ =D

So a visitor message notification? Or where you think of something else?

- Jon

No I think what we want is a new tab for those notification =D

Or a small "follow me" icon in the postbit legacy (what redirect to the settings page...)...!

+1
This icon would be perfect either in the postbit legacy or the post footer etc

Ah! It's so clear to me now. Definitely a "will add" feature.

This is great idea!
The only thing stopping me from downloading/installing it right now is that for my forum's purpose's, as users are part of particular groups, it would be awesome if the 'group' itself could be followed in this way. So any member in GroupZ, which is subscribed to to follow, when they post a new thread, those followers are alerted.

Any chance of a feature like this being added? :)

If you post it in our support forums here: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=200 it'll get recorded in our system and taken into consideration :)


Fillip

Will do / done.

v1.0.1 is now released which is a bugfix release.

Bug Fixes And Issue Fixes:
Fixed: References to wrong product in the readme file.
Fixed: Missing phrase in Admin Permissions page for Can Administer Follow User.
Fixed: Missing navigation links, including Quick Links, Community and a NavTab, is supported in 4.1.x and 4.2.x
Fixed: Removed unnecessary Manage Content Types link in the ACP.
Fixed: The footer for the product as it was not there and none of the settings to control it did nothing.
Fixed: Uncached templates in the usercp.
Fixed: Display issue on the Followers Block that added a space in between the blockhead and block subhead.
Fixed: Display issue on the Followers Block where the Content Type was showing the date instead of the Content Type.
Fixed: The size of the Notifications column in the Following block.
Fixed: A display issue in IE with the contents of the Following block going outside the block.

Chris

Great work. Thanks a lot. :)

Thanks, glad ya like it, enjoy.

Chris

Great mod, thanks! Some suggestions...

1. Add a link to follow or unfollow a member to postbit and member profile.
2. Add a "follower" and "following" count to postbit and member profile.
3. Create a page with a table of top members being "followed" or "following" including links to follow or unfollow each, and make it sortable (e.g: most / least followers, etc).
4. Add content types for creates album, posts visitor message, creates calendar entry, etc.

Uncached templates in the usercp does not fixed ? Can you add option ? Show Tab On Second Navbar ? (second navbar enabled with vBNavtabs (Pro)

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In the settings shown on the Usergroup Edit page, there is a setting "Is Manager". What exactly does it mean? Does it grant access to part of the settings for this plugin?

Ohh very nice plugin!

Hope my question in post #17 can be answered.

We've installed this and like it! Time will tell, but so far it's working! We have it set up so that only staff know about it, so that staff can 'follow' problem users to keep track of them better.

A feature request for a future release: I personally feel that a seperate tab on your profile for following would be better than sending PM's or emails. So to clarify, have lt similar to the Friends tab. So you get a notification (like you do for a friends request), you click on that notification and it takes you to your following tab on your profile (that only you can view).

Those will be taken into consideration in future updates of the mod. :)

None of those template have anything to due with Follow User, but I will see what I can do if anything.
For the tab on second navbar, it will be taken into consideration in future updates of the mod. :)

If I understand the file structure correctly, no all that does is over rides all the other settings, like having them all Yes.

Thanks, glad ya like it.

It will be taken into consideration in future updates of the mod. :)

I get this, but the class_install.php is there....
http://gyazo.com/da64a454cb5135519cdf3f4a50c3dca6 - What it says when I try to upload it.

What's the url to your site, if you don't want to display it publicly pm me the url.

Chris

good idea ... :up:

Thanks for your help and consideration. Keep making awesome mods! :-)

Hi everyone,

This update is basically a bugfix / performance release, with a few requests added as well.

If you like the product you can show your support by nominating it for mod of the month and also please rate it to help cancel out the users who 1 star our mods.

As always, please make sure you revert any templates you may have changed in order to take full advantage of the update.

Also report any issues you find asap so I can get them sorted quickly. ;)

Well without further ado here is the list of stuff.

Bug Fixes And Issue Fixes:

• Fixed a issue where you would get a notification on posts when type is set to thread.
• Fixed a issue when you updated your following settings, you would not get a re direct message informing you of successful changes.
• Fixed a issue where users could be followed if they were in a usergroup that was not allowed follows.

Changes To Existing Features:

• Removed the setting Is Manager from Usergroup Permissions as it was really a defunct setting.
• Added html markup support for usernames on the Follow User settings page.

Additions To Product From Feature Requests Or Just Something Else Added:

• Option to show signature in the pm sent to users who are following someone.
• Option to show users avatars now show on the Follow User settings page.
• Clicking on users name on the Follow User settings page, will now re direct you their profile.
• Ability to select which usergroups can have "Private" follows.
• Ability to show the users follow / following count in the postbit.
• Option to choose seven different locations in the postbit to display the users follow / following count.

Chris

Oooh! Will be checking out the usergroup's portion tomorrow hoping this is what I was needing! Awesome Chris.

If you are talking about what you requested here, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....99&postcount=9 then that has not been added yet.

Chris

another idea for content type to add: attachments

I don't know if that one is possible, but if you follow posts or threads and they post attachments, you would still get the notice.

Chris

true, but a follower may not be interested in the post if it doesn't contain new attachments ... I know this probably only applies to certain types of forums
To complete it, it would also need to be able to track new attachments in an album.

Well just thinking out loud, this mod is actually pretty cool the way it is :)

It will be looked into during a future update of the mod. :)

Chris

Aww I misread the notes then. Still here is to hoping!

Thanks for the update! For the update is all we need to do to upload the xml file again? Or the other stuff to the server as well?

Upload the new files to your server just as you did on initial install, then import the new xml allowing overwrite.

Chris

Where To Show In PostBit > User Info Right After Posts (Legacy & Horizontal)

Does not show correctly , conflict with [DBTech] vBActivity & Awards v3 (vB4) ? Please can you check and fix on this issue ? Also try to add locations to show "Postbit Controls Area (Legacy & Horizontal)"

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Then you would have to manually place it in the template and prefix the code with a <br /> or two depending on how it lines up.

As for Postbit Controls Area I don't believe I will be adding it there as a option, cause it will cause to many alignment issues in that area, but I will test it out during the next feature update and see if it will work there.

Chris

Can't get this to e-mail. I select it, it reverts back to PM.

Also am I the only one who isn't getting a redirect or is it not built in? Every time I submit anything on this, it just goes to a blank page (my board is there just the spot where the submit and form was just goes away). It saves everything (except if I chose e-mail) but just seems off.

The redirect was addressed in the latest version, as far as the email issue, I'll look into it and report back when there is a fix.

Chris

It worked when the owner tried adding it. I think it required FTP.
The product is great. Thanks for it. :)

Yeah it requires ftp, or cpanel access as you have to load files to the server. Thanks for reporting back.

Chris