Adv. Editing Options for Mods and Admins

I no longer support my hacks. Please feel free to update them and release new versions elsewhere as long as I get the credit for the original modification.

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|| Adv. Editing Options for Mods and Admins
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Co-Author(s) : Xenon
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Jun 01, 2009
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|| Time required to install: ~30 seconds
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

This hack gives your board staff a few advanced post editing options that are available in New Thread, New Post and Edit Post interfaces. Since this is a port of Xenon's Adv. Editing Options for Mods and Admins Hack, credits for the original idea (but not for the port cause it has a lot new features that were not present in the original ) belong to him.

Note that this hack may interfere with other hacks that make use of posting functions. If such problems appear, place the following code in the very beginning of the problematic script:

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define('BYPASS_AEO', true);
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This should eliminate whatever problem appears. If it does not, please feel free to mention it.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 1
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

Basics:

• Post Editing Hierarchy (available to mods, s-mods, admins and s-admins):
  Superadministrators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above), supermoderators (and above), admins (and above), or superadmins only.
  Administrators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above), supermoderators (and above) or admins (and above).
  Supermoderators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above) or supermoderators (and above).
  Moderators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above).
  
  
• Post Author (available to administrators only):
  Administrator can specify a custom author of any post. Guests (non-existing users) can also be specified.
  
  
• Post Date/Time (available to administrators only):
  Administrator can specify a custom date and time for any post.
  
  
• Post IP (available to administrators only):
  Administrator can specify a custom ip address for any post.

Advanced:

• A system-wide switch that defines the minimal editlevel required to use the hack.
  It can be found in vBulletin Options -> Advanced Editing Options for Mods and Admins.
  
• A per-user editlevel override, available via admincp user options.
  
• Color-coded listing of users to whom a custom editlevel has been applied.

Note:
To make the subject of the override clear for you, here is an example. If you turn you take a regular registered user and set the override to "Administrator" in that user's profile, then that user will be able to use hack options that would otherwise be available only to administrators.

VERSION HISTORY

2.1.0
[+] The hack is now compatible with vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x.
[+] Eliminated all template edits. The difference in template edits between different vBulletin versions is handled automatically.
[+] Added support for attachments for posts with custom user setting. These attachments are now saved, and their ownership is set to whatever custom user is specified.
[+] When a post is submitted with a custom user setting, that user's activity dates are updated if they are older than the post's date. The dates of the user's activities are never set to the future. If a new post is made with a date in the future, the user's activity dates are set to present time.
[+] When a post is submitted with a custom dateline, last post information in forum and thread is now rebuilt properly.
[+] If a post is submitted with a custom dateline, the thread's firstpostid and creation date are now set to match whatever posts is now the first one in the thread.
[+] In the event that you have installed "vS-Hide Hack Resurrection," and you are changing the ownership of a post that has been thanked, the ownership of thanks is updated automatically, and so are the users' thanked counts.
[+] Removed a lot of redundant code, so the hack should now work faster than it did before.

2.0.2
[+] The hack is now officially compatible with vBulletin 3.6.
[+] Added a workaround for hacks that use new post functions. See description for details.
[+] Unlike before, adv_editform form elements now use vbulletin styles.

2.0.1
[F] Removed extra queries from showthread and showpost.
[F] "adv_editform" is now cached.

2.0.0
[+] A "superadministrator" editlevel.
[+] A system-wide switch that defines the minimal usergroup required to use the hack.
[+] A user-level override of system permissions that defines the editlevel associated with any particular user.
[+] A listing of users for whom an override was defined (with color key). Located under "Users" in the control panel navigation menu.

1.0.2
[+] When you make a post, you have a new checkbox available. That checkbox is off by default, and it allows you to choose whether to use the custom dateline in your post.

1.0.1
[F] Lastposters were not updated on newthread and newreply when replied by admin.

1.0.0
First Release

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[carolem]

We are also having the issue of a new post does not show up on forumhome in the "Last Post" column.

Any suggestions?

Carolem

[MJM]

As per Carolem, my partner, last post details on forum index was not being updated even when replying to a thread and not making any username/time changes.

After uninstalling it's working right.

Will try it out again later tonight ...

Anyone else having this problem of replying to a thread and not showing last post details on forum index?

~ Mark

[akanevsky]

I am not able to verify the problem on my board. Can some PM me their access info plz so that I can look? Thx.

[akanevsky]

Bugfix release:

1.0.1
[F] Lastposters were not updated on newthread and newreply when replied by admin

To update, simply reload the product XML (two new plugins added).
Thanks to MJM for providing an access to a board on which the problem was evident.

[SnowBot]

Thanks for the update, atleast now i know i wasnt going mad

[Snake]

Yeah thanks for the update, works like a charm now.

[theArchitect]

I am having a minor problem with this hack in that it does not seem to play well with Xenon's Message Editing Hierarchy hack.

Everything works fine, unless a Mod tries to edit a post of someone of similar rank or higher.

ie If a Mod tries edit a registered users everything works fine. But if they try and edit the post a another Mod or an Admin then they get a plain white screen with the plain text of the post they were trying to edit.

If I disable Xenon's hack then I have no problems.

I would like to keep Xenon's hack so a workaround would be apprecaited.

[akanevsky]

I could just integrate his hack into this one.

[SoftWareRevue]

I've had this hack running for a couple weeks and love it.

However, there is a small problem that was just brought to my attention today.

When a user presents a new post and has the advanced editing options available to them, the time of the post is set according to when they started writing.

So, if it takes them a while for something lengthy, they post and then notice an error, the get the Last Edited By because it "appears" that the post was started some time sooner.

So, is there a way to have this hack display only when a post is edited?

[silurius]

Could you please provide screenshots? Thanks!