New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB4)

Advanced @User Tagging: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.

The @user Tagging mod is designed to increase activity on your forum by allowing members to mention each other in posts when talking about them.
This is done in a very easy way, very similar to how Twitter mentions people. We use @ ; as the tags, so for instance you could say:
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This new mod from @Dragonbyte Tech; is pretty cool.
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The ?@DragonByte Tech;? Will become a link to the DragonByte Tech users profile, it will also inform DragonByte Tech they had been mentioned, and link to the relevant thread/post via a new area in the profile section, as well as a new tab in the shoutbox.

It also allows members to ?tag? the thread for specific other members by inputting their usernames in the tag box above the posts of the thread.

This is a great way to increase your forum activity with no extra admin input required ? people will start to mention posts/threads to their friends, which will increase the amount of posting. This is especially useful of forums which have an international contingent (so threads posted in during the night for some of your members don't go overlooked) or forums which have a lot of posts/threads each day ? again to make sure that a post a person might want to read doesn't get lost in the crowd.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.

Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.

Profile Integration: Displays Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile tabs for quick overview of a member's activities within the mod.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Emails:

• Email alerts for all features
• Globally disable emails for any of the features

General Features:

• Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
• Globally disable any of the features

General:

• Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
• "Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
• Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
• Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
• View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
• Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags
• Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
• Control how many users to display in inline tag list
• Turn statistics page on & off
• Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
• Control [DBTech] vBShout integration
• Turn features on & off per category
• Globally disable email alerts
• Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)

Pro

• Hash Tags:
  • One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
  • Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar widget with Recent and Trending hash tags
  • Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
  • Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
  • Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
  • Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score
  • Deny usergroups access to sidebar block
  Emails:
  • Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features
  General Features:
  • Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.
  General:
• Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
• Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
• Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
• Hide forum notifications for individual features
• Turn off email alerts for individual features
• Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
• (vB4) Forum Sidebar block with Recent & Trending hash tags
• (vB4) Works with the Mobile Style (4.1.12+)
• Turn tag list off
• Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
• Hide "@" on mentions
• Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
• Exclude usergroups from features
• Exclude users from features

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

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

[DragonByte Tech]

If you use the iPhone app with your forum, could you please try disabling all plugins for the Advanced User Tagging product except "Global Initialisation", then re-enable them one-by-one until you find the one that breaks it?

If so, I will apply a fix that will ensure it works with the Mobile Suite

Unfortunately we do not use the Mobile Suite with our forum, so I am unable to test this myself


Fillip

[Quadronica]

when i try to enabled the "Render [MENTION] BBCode" the post is null

where i can disabled the quote notify?

[DragonByte Tech]

I'll get that fixed for the next version

Disabling individual notifications on a per-user basis is a Pro-only feature


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Advanced User Tagging v2.0.5:
Fix: Fixed an issue where posts viewed via the Mobile Suite applications would all be blank
Fix: Improved reliability of @mentions, specifically it should no longer mention users whose names happen to match email addresses

Fillip

[Quadronica]

the update work fine...

it's possibile to disabled the notify of quote?

[DragonByte Tech]

The Pro version lets you disable notifications for each individual type (mentions, tags and quotes)


Fillip

[Makaveli007]

I had to run the "rebuild post cache" maintenance tool today, and once complete, all posts lost the mentions. They are still there if you click edit on the post, but they do not show in the post itself. If you click save after clicking edit they do come back, but obviously I cannot go through and do that to all 500,000 posts. Is there a way to get them all back besides restoring to a backup?

EDIT, nvm figured it out. just open BBCode manager, click edit on mentions, and then click save without changing anything.

[cdoyle]

Hi,
I just installed this, and reading the description. I thought this would send a PM to a user if they are mentioned in a thread, to help bring in forum activity? But I'm not getting anything, is this normal? I was hoping to allow users to be able to tag other users, and they would get a PM notification. That way since my forums sends an email when you get a PM, users who have not been on the forum in awhile will know they were mentioned and hopefully it will bring them back.

Is this a feature of this mod?

Thanks
Chris

[Makaveli007]

After upgrading to vb 4.1.11, I have users who are getting issues in profile tabs for this mod. They get the words "document.write (")" written at the top of the screen when looking at the quotes/mentions etc tabs. In the error log in CPanel, I see:
/public_html/' + yuipath + ', referer: http://www.mywebsite.com/member.php?u=818&tab=thanks

It only effects a few users. I have had them clear their cache/cookies, but it still happens. I have reinstalled the mod already with no luck

Any ideas Fillip?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by cdoyle

Hi,
I just installed this, and reading the description. I thought this would send a PM to a user if they are mentioned in a thread, to help bring in forum activity? But I'm not getting anything, is this normal? I was hoping to allow users to be able to tag other users, and they would get a PM notification. That way since my forums sends an email when you get a PM, users who have not been on the forum in awhile will know they were mentioned and hopefully it will bring them back.

Is this a feature of this mod?

Thanks
Chris

Not currently, no They do receive a forum notification though.

Originally Posted by Makaveli007

After upgrading to vb 4.1.11, I have users who are getting issues in profile tabs for this mod. They get the words "document.write (")" written at the top of the screen when looking at the quotes/mentions etc tabs. In the error log in CPanel, I see:
/public_html/' + yuipath + ', referer: http://www.mywebsite.com/member.php?u=818&tab=thanks

It only effects a few users. I have had them clear their cache/cookies, but it still happens. I have reinstalled the mod already with no luck

Any ideas Fillip?

Can't say I can think of anything, document.write does not exist anywhere in my mod

Try it on a default (unmodified) skin and see if it works there


Fillip