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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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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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

[pete_brady]

i can see instant email notification being complained about on high volume boards... might it be possible to have an hourly or daily digest instead?

[pete_brady]

oh and: thank you.

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Could you please type the full post they posted here?


Fillip

I think it was this

@Hippy I got the email notification , nice. Thanks, I like it. Where you been Hippy ? You're not hanging out at bars boozin' are you? ;)

Where can I get this mod and the thanks mod you add for us? I need one for a G+ like button  per post, too.

kthxbye! :t

the next post seem to be

Tagging is blown up, don't use it. If I tag Hippy it dies.

the thread name is" I finally had time to install the user mentioned mod for you
thats about all "

I just help out there I'm in and out now and again to fix stuff over the past few years
as soon as Life gives in for me and I can get back online more I'll pop it back up to try and get more info for you.

Thanks Fillip

[Hippy]

sorry fillip
Just received a email
this was the original post

I got one, nice. I like it. Where you been @Hippy ? You're not hanging out at bars boozin' are you? 

Where can I get this mod and the thanks mod? I need one for a G+ like button per post, too.
 
kthxbye!

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by pete_brady

hmm not working for me - other forum emails are fine

edit: working for some, not for others. probably those with admin emails switched off....

That's correct, it obeys the "Receive emails from administrators" and "Receive emails from other users" setting as it should

Originally Posted by pete_brady

i can see instant email notification being complained about on high volume boards... might it be possible to have an hourly or daily digest instead?

That would subvert the purpose of the notifications, which is to be instant in order to quickly carry on a conversation

Originally Posted by Hippy

sorry fillip
Just received a email
this was the original post

I got one, nice. I like it. Where you been @Hippy ? You're not hanging out at bars boozin' are you? 

Where can I get this mod and the thanks mod? I need one for a G+ like button per post, too.
 
kthxbye!

It's got nothing to do with your name, it's the ?. I've made some internal changes to my code that will correct this in the upcoming Beta 5.


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Advanced User Tagging v3.0.0 (Beta 5):
Fix: Question marks and forward slashes could cause errors with Mentions

Fillip

[Hippy]

Fillip thanks for the update
seems to work..

I was thinking the extra ' in the error was something to do with it..
From the error message
the one in bold was what I was looking / thinking

'Hi',
'Hip',
'Hipp',
'Hippy''',
'post' Y',

but you guys know your stuff

thanks again for your hard work

[Bundle]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

dbtech_usertag_mentioncount, _tagcount, _quotecount I believe are the names You can look for them in the user table to verify

Thankyou, these variable names are what I was looking for!

However, I have encountered a second problem... the button notifying of new tags works, and links to "{vb:link member, {vb:raw bbuserinfo}}?tab=mentions" which goes to the intended page showing mentions... however, viewing that page doesn't reset the counters for the conditionals above to zero as it does when using the dropdown notifications menu on the full forum (so it will always show the alert for new notifications even when they've been viewed, unless the user returns to full forum mode and views them that way).

Is there something I need to include, either in the link or the page linked to, to reset the counters to zero?

Thanks again!

[pete_brady]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

That would subvert the purpose of the notifications, which is to be instant in order to quickly carry on a conversation

well, while i love the feature, i'm getting complaints about the volume of individual notifications. a digest option would be a really good extra.... one that included a list of mentions, quotes & thanks received would be even better...

[JulianD]

First of all, thank you for this great modification.

One question though. Is there any posibility to implement an auto complete feature? Or is this feature already included in the pro version?