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

[fjeans1]

how to change the color for the text header
Top Mentioned Top quoted Top tagged etc

by default is black and i using a dark theme so it very hard for our member to see the top
static header text

[DragonByte Tech]

You can edit the <legend> font colour in this template: dbtech_usertag_statistics_statisticbit

Fillip

[ZacFields]

Hello - I read through several pages and didn't see this suggestion (though I'm sure someone has suggested it) so I thought I would address it.

Is there any way (in a future release) to have a username list pop up when you type "@" and start to type a username? Kind of like the way Facebook does where it makes suggestions?

I don't know if that would be too resource-intensive but it would be a cool touch.

OUTSTANDING modification, BTW. This is really great!

[MattGarner]

Hi,

We have a "Post Reports" account and when a user reports another users posts then the account posts the "Reported Post" in a hidden forum. I believe this all default to vbulletin can changed around. Anyway we have started to notice recently that users are getting notification about the Post Reports account quoting the rule breaking post. It's never happened before - Has something changed in the plugin?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by ZacFields

Hello - I read through several pages and didn't see this suggestion (though I'm sure someone has suggested it) so I thought I would address it.

Is there any way (in a future release) to have a username list pop up when you type "@" and start to type a username? Kind of like the way Facebook does where it makes suggestions?

I don't know if that would be too resource-intensive but it would be a cool touch.

OUTSTANDING modification, BTW. This is really great!

Unfortunately that's not currently possible, sorry

Originally Posted by MattGarner

Hi,

We have a "Post Reports" account and when a user reports another users posts then the account posts the "Reported Post" in a hidden forum. I believe this all default to vbulletin can changed around. Anyway we have started to notice recently that users are getting notification about the Post Reports account quoting the rule breaking post. It's never happened before - Has something changed in the plugin?

There are notifications added yeah, you can turn them off via vBulletin Options.


Fillip

[justicechick]

I am using 4.2.2 and upgraded and running the lastest version of this mod but when enabled I still get this. Fatal error: Call to undefined function can_administer() in /home/cafeflir/public_html/usertag.php on line 33

[DragonByte Tech]

That means the files are not uploaded correctly, you've accidentally uploaded /upload/admincp/usertag.php to your forum root folder.

Please upload the contents of the "upload" folder to your forum root folder exactly as they are (Ctrl+A then drag and drop the files over).

Fillip

[justicechick]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

That means the files are not uploaded correctly, you've accidentally uploaded /upload/admincp/usertag.php to your forum root folder.

Please upload the contents of the "upload" folder to your forum root folder exactly as they are (Ctrl+A then drag and drop the files over).


Fillip

Thank you much all is good!

[juzz86]

Hi Fillip,

Justin here from Australia. Thanks for all your hard work!

Mate, I'm having a lot of trouble getting this to install. I have the contents of the 'upload' folder copied over to my root directory (checked several times now) as instructed:



But every time I go to install, I get the following:

/home/celluieo/public_html/dbtech/usertag/includes/class_install.php appears to be missing!

I was able to replicate my steps and get a working install on my test site, but I cannot for the life of me get it to go on the site proper.

This isn't my first mod install mate, but I am by no means well-versed. Any help greatly appreciated. I'm sure it's just a file copy thing, but I don't see why it isn't picking it up!

Cheers,

Justin

EDIT: Apologies, vB 4.2.1!

[Cerbero1000]

It is possible to have mentions working in social groups, album comments and visitors messages?
Thanks