Add-On Releases - Advanced Report Post Management System

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Distances First Official vBulletin Release!!

THIS PRODUCT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH vBulletin 3.7.x and higher


What does it do?

This is better for forums which get alot of post reports, it allows staff to see the amount of post reports open and lets them review and leave appropiate comments.

Users can see there post reports made and can see the status of the report and the moderator dealing with the report.

Admins / SuperMods / Moderators can see the post reports

*Note Moderators will only see the post reports in the forums they moderate*


Moderators can see who reported the post and the time at which it was reported, and the comment given by the user. There are also links to the post itself, the thread the post is on, the forum the thread is in, the user who posted the post and the user who reported the post.

The user page can be linked anywhere you choose; I have included instructions for linking it on the quicklinks menu.


Moderators can update the status of the report, and add a comment. The user who reported the post can then see these changes reflected in their page - it will show the name of the moderator dealing with the report, the comment (if any) left by the moderator, and the time at which the report was last updated.

When a moderator sets the status of a report to 'closed', it is moved to another page in modcp called 'closed post reports'. Post reports that are in the pending state are still kept in the 'outstanding post reports' page.

See screen shots for more information


Installation

• Unpack the .zip file
• Upload the files in the upload directory to your forum root
• Install the product by uploading the product xml file into the product manager in Admin CP
• Make the two template changes specified in 'template changes.txt'

Upgrading

From v1.0

If you are upgrading from v1.00 please uninstall then install the new one.
Be sure to uninstall the original otherwise you will get 2x everything!

From v1.01 OR HIGHER

Simply upload the plugin and choose to overwrite.




Changes

• 2 php files to upload
• One xml file to upload
• Two templates to change (navbar)
• Installs 3 plugins

Screenshots



User reporting post:





User going onto quick links to open up there post reports:





User viewing the post report they just made, it is still open and not assigned to a moderator:





A moderator can see in the navbar there is one post report:





They click on it and change the status to pending:






The user can now see in there reported posts page its under investigation and has been assigned to a moderator:





The moderator has reviewed the post and now closes the report:






The user can now see the closed report:





Other:


Modcp links:






Admincp links:


Distance (me)
Spleasure (Jorrit) for bug fixing help



Other Notes

• Please note that since i didnt release the original i cannot give support for this modification, however i will help as best as i can
• I have permission to release this port of the original
• FULLY backup your site before installing this modification!! Im not responsible for any loss of data etc if you install this incorrectly or dont backup your database
• Uninstall any previous releases of this hack BEFORE installing this one, failure to do so will result in database errors. *Meaning previous releases, not previous versions of my release*
• This has only been tested on 3.6.4 and 3.6.5, i dont see why this wouldn't work on other versions of vBulletin 3.6.X
• See next post for updates and important notes!!

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Important notice: By default if BOTH

• Post Reporting Discussion Forum
• Post Reporting Email

Are turned off.. the post report system will disable itself. I haven't
figured out a way to get round this yet but this will be updated in v2.10

So for now make sure in: vBulletin Options -> User Infractions & Post Reporting Options

One of these two options are turned on.

Click Install if you like this modifcation



Thanks

Distance

[Distance]

Originally Posted by josh_B

Worked fine on my 3.6.4, although I did have to relocate the navbar code to get it to work..

Thanks

I will check over my installation instructions tonight.

Originally Posted by Neo_obs

My users are saying that there is a 5 minute wait time between reports... Not sure if its your hack or VB but can you please help me decrease this time. maybe 1 minute or less.

This is changeable in your vBulletin settings.

Please go to

http://yoursite.com/admincp/options.php?do=options&dogroup=email

(Or vB Options -> Email options)

Then change the Email Flood Check to whatever you wish

[LouiseDM]

oo thanks i better post

[Distance]

Thanks.

There are no problems with my template instructions.

[yaworski]

I wonder if this would be possible, to split the closed state for report to closed (accepted) and closed (rejected). It would be also great to have a status page with ranking of users' reports (for example: top100 accepted reports, top100 rejected reports etc).

----edit----

Oh and I found that this is not XHTML friendly. You forgot to close <option> tags in postreports.php.

[Burley]

Great hack, will most definitly click install when my new board is up&running.

I installed it on my test board (3.6.5) which went fine, but when a user clicks on "your post reports" link and it takes you there, the table is much wider then the actuall width of my board.

I'm not sure if this has something to do with your hack or with my settings, but none of the other seem to cause this problem.

edit: added a screenshot

[Paul Janowitz]

Burley, it's most likely because your comment has no line break

[Burley]

But still, is there a way to make sure that that never happens?

[rowlandc]

@ Paul : I'm pretty sure you can't. If you just break the link it should be fine.

I've got one question before I install. Is it already implemented that when the topic is closed after a certain amount of days it will delete itself?

[Distance]

Originally Posted by Burley

Great hack, will most definitly click install when my new board is up&running.

I installed it on my test board (3.6.5) which went fine, but when a user clicks on "your post reports" link and it takes you there, the table is much wider then the actuall width of my board.

I'm not sure if this has something to do with your hack or with my settings, but none of the other seem to cause this problem.

edit: added a screenshot

That is because you have no line break.

Originally Posted by rowlandc

@ Paul : I'm pretty sure you can't. If you just break the link it should be fine.

I've got one question before I install. Is it already implemented that when the topic is closed after a certain amount of days it will delete itself?

No, why would this delete a topic?

If you mean delete the report then no, although I have noted the suggestion.

Originally Posted by yaworski

I wonder if this would be possible, to split the closed state for report to closed (accepted) and closed (rejected). It would be also great to have a status page with ranking of users' reports (for example: top100 accepted reports, top100 rejected reports etc).

----edit----

Oh and I found that this is not XHTML friendly. You forgot to close <option> tags in postreports.php.

I am not going to be extending this hack.

I have not forgotten to close any tags.

[Burley]

Distance, when I turn the email function off, the mods disables itself as well.
Didn't you fix this? I thought you said you did.