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]

That is a feature of the Pro version


Fillip

[betts02]

I have just installed this and tested it by tagging myself in a thread but after the thread has been posted it does not show in my postbit
Also how do i know when i have been tagged/mentioned ?

Many thanks

[Alan_SP]

You get notification.

If you use vBNotifications (also by DByte) you receive it without reloading page, almost instantly (depending how you set it). If not, you need to reload page.

[GKPet]

I tried installing this modification multiple times but it always ends up timing out. During the xml importnig process, the forum goes down and after a couple of minutes, everythnig times out and installation doesn't go through. Any idea what's going on and how to fix this?

[Mukashi]

Originally Posted by clubvr4

Ah, excellent - I have had a similair problem for a couple weeks now, Unfortuntly the guys at dragon byte cannot connect to my host to investigate (security reasons).

Does any this thread ring a bell?

http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f51/m...-working-6828/

If it is the same then Hopefully you can provide access for the guys to investigate and resolve.

Well, I can't speak for the other guy here....but on my own forum, we've noticed since upgrading to 4.1.11 that mentions seem to only work sporadically (though oddly enough, trying to make the same mention multiple times in one post gets it to work every time).

At first, we thought it was a conflict with the Word Links addon by BOP5 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=263699), but uninstalling that made no difference. We're not seeing any options under the usergroup manager for this tagging addon on the Lite version we run, so if they're meant to be there, we're obviously having some sort of serious problem.

DragonByte guys, anything we can do to help diagnose this?

EDIT: Hmmm, another error we're noticing. The statistics page stays enabled, regardless of if we've changed the options to disable it.

[clubvr4]

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Well, I can't speak for the other guy here....but on my own forum, we've noticed since upgrading to 4.1.11 that mentions seem to only work sporadically (though oddly enough, trying to make the same mention multiple times in one post gets it to work every time).

At first, we thought it was a conflict with the Word Links addon by BOP5 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=263699), but uninstalling that made no difference. We're not seeing any options under the usergroup manager for this tagging addon on the Lite version we run, so if they're meant to be there, we're obviously having some sort of serious problem.

DragonByte guys, anything we can do to help diagnose this?

EDIT: Hmmm, another error we're noticing. The statistics page stays enabled, regardless of if we've changed the options to disable it.

Yeah, something similar is happening with us, do you see the permission settings in usergroups/users?

I also installed a fresh db and install of VB, then only installed this mod - we saw the same problem on a fresh board - is this maybe something you can try too?

I'm wondering if it's server config problem?

[Mukashi]

I'm not seeing those permission settings, no.

These errors were *not* present in the old version that we upgraded from, but we're not sure if that's due to the vBulletin upgrade or to the upgrade to this addon. I'm quite certain however it's nothing to do with server configuration. If it was, the old version would've had the same fault, and it did not.

[clubvr4]

Are you in a position to install a fresh copy of vb 4.1.11 and see what happens then? For me it was the same problem.

[Mukashi]

Not really at this point in time, no. In any case, since I know for a fact it was working when we were on 4.1.10 and version 2.0.4 of this mod, I'm confident that the cause was a change either in vBulletin, or in this mod, between those versions.

[betts02]

Same here, NOT seeing any user permissions