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

[DreadsUK]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I'm seeing a few posts saying "it doesn't work", those of you who want to report problems; Could you please provide more details as to what issues you're running into?

I can't help when all I have to go by is "I'm having a problem." or "This doesn't work for me!"

The general install instructions: Drag and drop the contents of the "upload" folder to the folder your forum files reside in


Fillip

i did already post this but i'll post it again as perhaps you overlooked it...

i'm having problems i uploaded the 'upload' folder to httpdocs

then
ControlPanel Home > Plugins andProducts > Manage Products > Add/Import Product
Choose file > Product-dbtech_usertag.xml

/var/www/vhosts/dreadsuk.com/httpdocs/dbtech/usertag/includes/class_install.php appears to be missing!

[btedition]

Originally Posted by DreadsUK

i did already post this but i'll post it again as perhaps you overlooked it...

i'm having problems i uploaded the 'upload' folder to httpdocs

then
ControlPanel Home > Plugins andProducts > Manage Products > Add/Import Product
Choose file > Product-dbtech_usertag.xml

/var/www/vhosts/dreadsuk.com/httpdocs/dbtech/usertag/includes/class_install.php appears to be missing!

There goes your problem sir, upload the files to (htdocs/forum)

Then import the XML file

[DreadsUK]

Originally Posted by btedition

There goes your problem sir, upload the files to (htdocs/forum)

Then import the XML file

I uploaded the 'uploads folder' to htdocs but there were a bunch of files that needed to me moved into the right places manually.

Its now installed but a few issues..

When user gets a mention notification, and user clicks
Notifications > New Mentions
it goes to 404 error

same with taggin statistics
/usertag.php?do=statistics



Its also not clearing the mentions notifications counter.

Have 404 errors everywhere now

[btedition]

You do not need to upload some files manually to locations. Just upload the contents of the "UPLOAD" folder to your "htdocs/forum" destination. It will automatically overwrite the older files and replace them.

On the forum, you have to tag the users with their exact name being case-sensitive. @Abc and then afterwards @Abc should take you to their profile.

Check this post for instance, that's my board.
LINK

[DreadsUK]

Originally Posted by btedition

You do not need to upload some files manually to locations. Just upload the contents of the "UPLOAD" folder to your "htdocs/forum" destination. It will automatically overwrite the older files and replace them.

i did that but it didn't work. Moving folders manually did.

Just putting the uploads folder to htdocs didn't put the right files in the right places hence it looking like the file was missing when it was actually in the folder, just in the wrong place.

Originally Posted by btedition

On the forum, you have to tag the users with their exact name being case-sensitive. @Abc and then afterwards @Abc should take you to their profile.

Thats not the issue. the actually taggin works fine in terms of the tag itself. user is notified, its the notification link in notifications that isn't working

[DreadsUK]

OK, i fixed it. The issue for anyone else that has a similar problem is that the file usertag.php stayed in the folder 'uploads' when it needed to be moved out of that folder and place in the root folder, same as forum.php

I'll mark as installed now and offer help anywhere i can with anyone else struggling.

Still pretty new to vb, but starting to get the hang of it.

Massive thanks to all the contributions from everyone and i hope to 'pass it on'

[DreadsUK]

one thing i can't find is admincp/index.php

It doesn't seem to be in the folder anywhere

[Disco_Dave]

Originally Posted by DreadsUK

one thing i can't find is admincp/index.php

It doesn't seem to be in the folder anywhere

Have you renamed your ACP?

[DreadsUK]

Originally Posted by Disco_Dave

Have you renamed your ACP?

Not to my knowledge. how would i check this?

[Disco_Dave]

What is the name that appears in your browser when you are in the ACP