Chat Modifications - [DBTech] vBShout v6 (vB4) [AJAX]

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present vBShout v6: The most advanced, Most feature-rich and most professional shoutbox ever.


Uses

vBShout is the ideal way to keep members on your forum while they wait for replies to their posts. It can be used in many ways - as a chat room for members, for staff to discuss issues in realtime, as a live-update feed of new posts and threads, as a way to track member milestones... Best of all, you can have multiple boxes in use for multple purposes!

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Major Lite Features

Advanced Shout Control: You have the ability to post shouts, edit your shouts, PM shouts to other users, Ignore other users, insert /Me commands, insert smilies, Bbcode, change font, text colour etc.

Advanced Staff Control: Give your staff members customised permissions to allow them to do certain actions, on all or selected instances and chat rooms. Permissions include: Silencing users, banning users, editing user shouts, Creating/Editing "Sticky Notices", Pruning shouts and much more.

Resource Optimisation: vBShout implements an Advanced Optimisation Protocol to save your forum resources. Enabling this will further reduce the amount of resources consumed by the shoutbox. AOP was originally featured in Inferno vBShout, and DBTech vBShout takes it to the next level by ensuring that all your chats are always up-to-date without taking up needless amount of resources.

Customisable New Post / Thread Notifications: Allows you to make the shoutbox post when a new thread is created, or a new post is made. You can make this happen with all threads (Which will take user permissions into account) or only threads/posts from certain forums.

Shoutbox Tabs: New PM's or User Chat Rooms create Tabs. Tabs will highlight to let you know something new has happened, and you can even set them to make sounds to alert you.

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.

Context Menus: Many places now make use of context menus ? less having to remember /commands, one click access to the most useful and commonly used functions, and the ability for users to access their shoutbox settings directly from the shoutbox itself.

Custom Chat Rooms: Your users can now set up their own Chat-Tabs, where they get to set who can come and chat. Perfect for clubs, guilds etc. Admins can also create permanent Chat rooms for specific usergroups etc. ? perfect for a staff only chat room for instance, or to reward loyal members!

Custom Shoutbox Instances: Ever wanted a separate shoutbox just for your admin forum? Got a part of your board only for VIP members? Now you can set a shoutbox specific to those areas.

Shoutbox Sounds: You asked for it, we delivered. Customisable sounds now available on receiving shouts, Invites, PM's and more. (Requires QuickTime Plugin)

Archive: View all the shouts posted since the last pruning, Also shows you the top X shouters, a variety of interesting and useful shoutbox statistics, and allows you to search previous shouts.

Logging: Worried about staff members pruning the shoutbox to cover their tracks? Don't worry, with our advanced logging options, you can make sure a hard copy is kept of every action taken.

Revamped Thread / Reply Notices: Do you have a massive board with 100+ forums? With the revamped New Thread / Reply Notices page, you can edit exactly what forums show what notices in what instance all from one page.

Downloadable Shoutbox Archives: You and your shoutbox admins can download a complete dump of the Shoutbox' archive for all instances. With 3 supported formats (tab-delimited CSV, XML and TXT), there's something for everyone whether your purpose is review or programming.

Easy Shoutbox Notice Editing: You and usergroups with the "Can Set Sticky" permission can now edit the notice by double-clicking the Sticky in the shoutbox. Quickly fix typos or rapidly update with new turn of events, editing it is never more than two clicks away.

Shoutbox Report System: Members can now report offensive shouts by using the shout context menu. When a report has been submitted, those with the "Can Moderate Chat" permission will see how many reports need their attention via a new chat tab in the Shoutbox.

Easy User Infractions: The context menu also adds a quick link to infract users, for those who can access vBulletin's infraction system. This lets you quickly punish members who are overstepping your bounds.

Blog Integration: Give blogs a more prominent place on your forum by having the Shoutbox post notifications when someone posts a new blog or comments on a blog.


Professional Only benefits:

Personal User Shoutbox Options: Integrated with User CP, User gets to decide which things show on their shoutbox, PM's, notifications etc. Even what editor options show up for them. They also get to decide where their text input area goes for TOTAL customisation.

Ignore List: Allows users to keep track of who they are ignoring, and control this option via a list.

Custom Commands: Lets you and your users create their own commands for use. For example, create pre-set warning comments ? Staff member types /firstwarning, Text appears saying "This is your first warning for breaking the shoutbox rules. You can view these rules at [link] If you have a question about this warning, please PM myself. Thanks.

Extra Tab Options: The ability to set separate tabs for system notifications and notices is available in the PRO version, fantastic for keeping your chat tab uncluttered.

Detach Shoutbox: Lets you and your users have the shoutbox open in a seperate browser window/tab for easier use etc.

Additional Moderation Commands: The ability to add/edit the sticky notice through the shoutbox.

Advanced Archive Searching: Ability to search by any combination of username, Last X Hours, Start/End date, as well as keyword. Filter searches, sort by criteria etc.

Extended Instance Options: Allows you to have separate notices per instance, set usergroup settings for individual instances, and even set unique staff permissions for each individual instance.

Expanded Context Menus: Lets your member/staff use the context menu to add/update the sticky note, Ban and Unban users, Ignore/Unignore users and prune individual user shouts.

Extra User Chat Room Moderation: Shows a page displaying every use-created chat room, who made it, how many active members/total members it has etc, and options to close it etc.


Complete Feature List
Lite

• Shoutbox
  • Post Shouts
  • Edit / Delete Shouts
  • Shouts played using HTML5 <audio> tags
  • PM other users
    • PM tabs for convo between two users
  • View Active Users
    • Separate context-aware block that shows the people active in your specific tab.
• Smilies
  • Integrates with vBulletin smilie popup for easy overview of all available smilies.
• Update text styles
  • Bold
  • Italic
  • Underline
  • Font
  • Colour
• Slash commands
  • Built-in commands in a drop-down list
  • /banlist for a list of all users banned from the shoutbox
• Context menu for available actions
  • View Profile
  • Send PM
• Create chat room
  • Invite / Manage users that can access this chat room
  • Inviting an user sends them a pop-up asking them to join the room.
• Tabs
  • Highlights when you're not viewing them but they have new messages.
  • Chat Rooms get tabs added as you join them.
• Logging
  • Default logging logs all administrative slash commands.
• Archive
  • View list of all Shouts in the system
  • Top X Shouters
  • Shoutbox Statistics
  • Search Archive
    • Search by
      • Phrase
• AdminCP
  • Instance Manager
    • Different instances on different pages
  • Chat Room Manager
    • Assign usergroups to chat rooms
  • Edit Settings
    • Which commands to log
    • Log level
    • Shouts to display
    • Shouts to display (Archive)
    • Shoutbox Height
    • Shout display order
    • Shoutbox Refresh Rate
    • Smilies on / off
    • PMs on / off
    • Allowed BBCode controls
    • Enabled Editor Tools
    • Maximum [SIZE]
    • Max characters per shout
    • Max images per shout
    • Archive "Top X Shouters" count
    • Active Users block on/off
    • Auto-Delete Shouts
    • Max chat rooms per user
    • Global sound switch
    • Play sounds while idle
    • Per-Usergroup display of moderator actions (like pruning shouts)
    • Ability to disable the "Chat Access" list
    • Project Tools integration
    • Ability to disable Blog notifications
    • Alternating Shout Background Colours
    • Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
      • Every X Posts
      • Every X Threads
      • Every X Members
  • Show command log
  • Show banned users
  • Show shout log
  • Maintenance
    • Reset all style customisations
  • Ban / Silence management in Edit User

Shoutbox Sessions

• Shoutbox activity is tracked separate from users' shouts
• Only shows people who perform an action as active
• "Active Indicator" on the toolbar shows whether the user is active in the SB or not
• Doesn't flag users generating automatic notices as active

Anonym.To Integration

• Ability to anonymise any URL entered in the Shoutbox per-instance with Anonym.to
• Works with BBCode URLs
• Displays regular URL while editing shouts

Disallow "ALL CAPS"

• Ability to disallow all caps per-instance
• Uses vBulletin's "Prevent SHOUTING" setting to de-caps the shout

New Slash Command: /resetshouts

• Resets all users' "Lifetime Shouts" counter to how many shouts they currently have in the system
• (Pro) /resetshouts user to reset an individual user's "Lifetime Shouts" counter
• Great way to put spammers in their place

Context Menu Improvements

• Dedicated context menu item for editing shouts (if user has permission to edit that shout)
• Dedicated context menu item for deleting shouts (if user has permission to delete that shout)
• JavaScript performance for menu closure operations has been improved

"Invisibility" Toggle

• Click the activity status icon to toggle invisibility
• Uses the status icon from your vBulletin skin
• Hides the user from all activity displays in the entire instance
• Great for surprising friends with shouts out of the blue!

Pro

• Context Menu Options
• Moderation actions
  • Add / Update Sticky Note
  • Ban / Unban users
  • Ignore / unignore users
  • Prune user's shouts
• Slash commands
  • /silencelist for a list of all users silenced in the shoutbox
• Separate tab for Notifications
  • Lets you hide them from the main view but still have them accessible.
• Separate tab for System Messages
  • Lets you hide them from main view but still have them accessible.
• Detach shoutbox
  • Shows a dedicated shoutbox browser window.
• Shoutbox Options
  • Integration with UserCP
    • General Shoutbox Settings
      • Enable / Disable PMs
      • Enable / Disable Notifications
      • Enable / Disable System Messages
      • Override shout styles
      • Sounds on/off
        • Shout
        • Invite
        • PM
      • Hide alternating shoutbox background colours
      • Hide user avatars
    • Display Settings
      • Hide/Display individual Editor settings (Font, text colour etc)
      • Control shout area location
    • Tab Reordering
      • Re-order chat tabs
• Custom Commands
  • Add / Edit custom commands
• Ignore List
  • Add / Remove users
• High-level logging logs everything
• vBActivity & Awards integration (Award, Achievement, Promotion)
• Filter archive shouts by chatroom
• Create threads from archive shouts
• Search Archive
  • Search by
    • Username
    • Last X Hours
    • Start Date
    • End Date
  • Sort order for search results
  • Shouts per page
• Filter archive shouts
• Edit/Delete shouts in archive
• Separate Sticky notices per instance
• Separate usergroup permissions per instance
• Assign chat room to any / all instance(s)
• Shoutbox Refresh Rate
  • While idle
• PMs on / off
• Archive "Top X Shouters" count
• Play sounds while idle
• Maintenance
  • Reset all style customisations
• Ban / Silence management in Edit User
• Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
  • Every X Blogs
  • Every X Shouts
  • Every X [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like button clicks received
  • Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging thread tags received
  • Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging quotes received
  • Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging mentions received
  • Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed created
  • Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed completed
• Adjust time stamp format
• Per-Usergroup "Can PM" permission

(Pro) Global Custom Commands

• Create custom commands that anyone can use via the AdminCP
• Prevents users from creating commands with the same shortcut
• Great for "canned responses"

(Pro) Per-User Shoutbox Toggle

• New UserCP option to turn off the entire shoutbox
• Hides it completely from all pages

(Pro) Per-Instance Activity Triggers

• Choose what actions trigger new activity
  • Create Chat
  • Delete Shout
  • Fetch Sticky
  • Join Chat
  • Leave Chat
  • User Lookup
  • Save Sound Settings
  • Save Shout Styles
  • User Management
  • Chat Tab Switching
  • Un-idling
  • Toggle "Invisible Mode"

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[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by d3vilfish666

Hi just updated to version 4.2 and it is showing as 4.1 in the archive but 4.2 in the products manager and still unable to place the shoutbox in the cms page using {vb:raw show.vbshout_instance1} but can on any forum page.

This will be fixed in 5.4.3


Fillip

[MortysTW]

GLITCHED. In the AdminCP>Instance Manager> In chat room setting, you used to be able to specify what pages it shows on. It even still says:

Auto-Display Shoutbox
This setting controls whether the Shoutbox will automatically be added to the pages you specify above.
Selecting "Disabled" means you need to add a variable to all relevant templates manually.
For more information, see Admin Help.

But there is no box or any options "above" to specify any pages. Or did my install just goof?

I can only get it to appear on my forums.php

[DragonByte Tech]

Will be fixed for 5.4.3.

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Thanks to your diligence in reporting vBShout issues, we've seen it fit to release v5.4.3.

It fixes the following issues:

• Suhosin users should no longer find the Permissions and BBCode Permissions erased upon saving the Instance Options form.
  Please note that it is still required to submit the 3 forms separately, the top form will simply not erase any previous changes you have made to the bottom ones anymore.
• The Shoutbox can now once again be placed on the vB CMS on vB4
• It is now once again possible to determine if you have been flagged Idle if the Shout Order is set to Oldest First
• If you had more than one instance per page, it was possible for the Shoutbox to be stuck on Loading. This has now been corrected.
• The Shoutbox will now properly display times for shouts made in a global chatroom
• Deleting or posting a shout in a chat room will no longer show the contents of the "Shoutbox" tab until the shouts refresh again
• BBCode parsing for notifications should now once again work as intended
• The Auto-Idle function should now function correctly

Thanks for your patience and assistance in tracking down these issues


Fillip

[In Omnibus]

vBulletin Version 4.1.3

BBCode parsing for notifications still showing taqs and breaking links.
Creating a missing plugin error requesting installation of Apple QuickTime.

Reverted to version 5.4.2

[DragonByte Tech]

Shame, I could have used your help in fixing it

Oh well.

As for the missing plugins, that's the shout sounds


Fillip

[d3vilfish666]

Thanks for the update, now sorted and on the cms thanks much.

[Lestat_]

installed on 4.1.2 (install version mod is 5.4.3), works great but I have one problem, when I turn on notifications of new threads, I get this :

*Ghostface has just posted the thread [thread = 29980]No Strings Attached [2011] 720p *Gereed*[/thread]!*

(i added spaces because thread bbcode is working here)
so bbcode for thread is not working

I checked permissions, bbcode & bbcode hyperlinks enabled for all users

Is there a way to fix this ?

[demo7up]

My admin panel wont work for it any item i click

DBTech - vBShout +
Instance Management Chat Room Management View Banned Users Command Log Download Archive Repair Cache Notifications Settings

i just get a notification on the main screen which says go back.

[DemoniK_AK]

Installed 5.4.3 on 4.1.1 (4.1.3 upgrade planned for this weekend) and have a few issues

1. URL BBCode is not being processed correctly. It just displays with the [URL] bbcode on the shout line, and not converting it into a <a href> as expected.
2. Notifications in ACP is blank like for demo7up above. I'm at a loss on how to enable notifications for the forums for new threads and replies.
3. Posting a shout into a chatroom results in the SB refreshing to the main chatroom and not the chatroom just posted in - however it seems I am still in that chatroom and all shouts are posted there and not the main chatroom. And should someone else post in the chatroom I'm automatically brought back to it.
4. The sounds system constantly issues a sound every refresh - not sure which one of the sounds is issuing yet - am doing some more work on that.
5. On selecting avatars for the detached page (I'm running Pro) the avatars won't display unless I enable the general avatars, and then I only get the size that I have for the normal display - I would like to increase them for the detached display.
6. Is it possible to remove the Active Users Tab when I have the Active Users block enabled? Doesn't make sense to have both...

And a Q - does the auto-delete of posts work across all chatrooms, or just the main one.. Am hoping the latter...