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[DBTech] vBShout v6 (vB4) [AJAX] · **Released**: 02-25-2010

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present vBShout v6: The most advanced, Most feature-rich and most professional shoutbox ever.

Uses

vBShout is the ideal way to keep members on your forum while they wait for replies to their posts. It can be used in many ways - as a chat room for members, for staff to discuss issues in realtime, as a live-update feed of new posts and threads, as a way to track member milestones... Best of all, you can have multiple boxes in use for multple purposes!

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Major Lite Features

Advanced Shout Control: You have the ability to post shouts, edit your shouts, PM shouts to other users, Ignore other users, insert /Me commands, insert smilies, Bbcode, change font, text colour etc.

Advanced Staff Control: Give your staff members customised permissions to allow them to do certain actions, on all or selected instances and chat rooms. Permissions include: Silencing users, banning users, editing user shouts, Creating/Editing "Sticky Notices", Pruning shouts and much more.

Resource Optimisation: vBShout implements an Advanced Optimisation Protocol to save your forum resources. Enabling this will further reduce the amount of resources consumed by the shoutbox. AOP was originally featured in Inferno vBShout, and DBTech vBShout takes it to the next level by ensuring that all your chats are always up-to-date without taking up needless amount of resources.

Customisable New Post / Thread Notifications: Allows you to make the shoutbox post when a new thread is created, or a new post is made. You can make this happen with all threads (Which will take user permissions into account) or only threads/posts from certain forums.

Shoutbox Tabs: New PM's or User Chat Rooms create Tabs. Tabs will highlight to let you know something new has happened, and you can even set them to make sounds to alert you.

Active Users Shout-bit: Shows the users active in the tab/instance you are, with the option to view everyone who can enter/exit the room at will (and thus see any shouts posted) in a pop-up to save resources. Perfect for seeing what's going on and who's around at a glance.

Context Menus: Many places now make use of context menus ? less having to remember /commands, one click access to the most useful and commonly used functions, and the ability for users to access their shoutbox settings directly from the shoutbox itself.

Custom Chat Rooms: Your users can now set up their own Chat-Tabs, where they get to set who can come and chat. Perfect for clubs, guilds etc. Admins can also create permanent Chat rooms for specific usergroups etc. ? perfect for a staff only chat room for instance, or to reward loyal members!

Custom Shoutbox Instances: Ever wanted a separate shoutbox just for your admin forum? Got a part of your board only for VIP members? Now you can set a shoutbox specific to those areas.

Shoutbox Sounds: You asked for it, we delivered. Customisable sounds now available on receiving shouts, Invites, PM's and more. (Requires QuickTime Plugin)

Archive: View all the shouts posted since the last pruning, Also shows you the top X shouters, a variety of interesting and useful shoutbox statistics, and allows you to search previous shouts.

Logging: Worried about staff members pruning the shoutbox to cover their tracks? Don't worry, with our advanced logging options, you can make sure a hard copy is kept of every action taken.

Revamped Thread / Reply Notices: Do you have a massive board with 100+ forums? With the revamped New Thread / Reply Notices page, you can edit exactly what forums show what notices in what instance all from one page.

Downloadable Shoutbox Archives: You and your shoutbox admins can download a complete dump of the Shoutbox' archive for all instances. With 3 supported formats (tab-delimited CSV, XML and TXT), there's something for everyone whether your purpose is review or programming.

Easy Shoutbox Notice Editing: You and usergroups with the "Can Set Sticky" permission can now edit the notice by double-clicking the Sticky in the shoutbox. Quickly fix typos or rapidly update with new turn of events, editing it is never more than two clicks away.

Shoutbox Report System: Members can now report offensive shouts by using the shout context menu. When a report has been submitted, those with the "Can Moderate Chat" permission will see how many reports need their attention via a new chat tab in the Shoutbox.

Easy User Infractions: The context menu also adds a quick link to infract users, for those who can access vBulletin's infraction system. This lets you quickly punish members who are overstepping your bounds.

Blog Integration: Give blogs a more prominent place on your forum by having the Shoutbox post notifications when someone posts a new blog or comments on a blog.

Professional Only benefits:

Personal User Shoutbox Options: Integrated with User CP, User gets to decide which things show on their shoutbox, PM's, notifications etc. Even what editor options show up for them. They also get to decide where their text input area goes for TOTAL customisation.

Ignore List: Allows users to keep track of who they are ignoring, and control this option via a list.

Custom Commands: Lets you and your users create their own commands for use. For example, create pre-set warning comments ? Staff member types /firstwarning, Text appears saying "This is your first warning for breaking the shoutbox rules. You can view these rules at [link] If you have a question about this warning, please PM myself. Thanks.

Extra Tab Options: The ability to set separate tabs for system notifications and notices is available in the PRO version, fantastic for keeping your chat tab uncluttered.

Detach Shoutbox: Lets you and your users have the shoutbox open in a seperate browser window/tab for easier use etc.

Additional Moderation Commands: The ability to add/edit the sticky notice through the shoutbox.

Advanced Archive Searching: Ability to search by any combination of username, Last X Hours, Start/End date, as well as keyword. Filter searches, sort by criteria etc.

Extended Instance Options: Allows you to have separate notices per instance, set usergroup settings for individual instances, and even set unique staff permissions for each individual instance.

Expanded Context Menus: Lets your member/staff use the context menu to add/update the sticky note, Ban and Unban users, Ignore/Unignore users and prune individual user shouts.

Extra User Chat Room Moderation: Shows a page displaying every use-created chat room, who made it, how many active members/total members it has etc, and options to close it etc.

Complete Feature List
Lite

Shoutbox
- Post Shouts
- Edit / Delete Shouts
- Shouts played using HTML5 <audio> tags
- PM other users
  - PM tabs for convo between two users
- View Active Users
  - Separate context-aware block that shows the people active in your specific tab.
Smilies
- Integrates with vBulletin smilie popup for easy overview of all available smilies.
Update text styles
- Bold
- Italic
- Underline
- Font
- Colour
Slash commands
- Built-in commands in a drop-down list
- /banlist for a list of all users banned from the shoutbox
Context menu for available actions
- View Profile
- Send PM
Create chat room
- Invite / Manage users that can access this chat room
- Inviting an user sends them a pop-up asking them to join the room.
Tabs
- Highlights when you're not viewing them but they have new messages.
- Chat Rooms get tabs added as you join them.
Logging
- Default logging logs all administrative slash commands.
Archive
- View list of all Shouts in the system
- Top X Shouters
- Shoutbox Statistics
- Search Archive
  - Search by
    - Phrase
AdminCP
- Instance Manager
  - Different instances on different pages
- Chat Room Manager
  - Assign usergroups to chat rooms
- Edit Settings
  - Which commands to log
  - Log level
  - Shouts to display
  - Shouts to display (Archive)
  - Shoutbox Height
  - Shout display order
  - Shoutbox Refresh Rate
  - Smilies on / off
  - PMs on / off
  - Allowed BBCode controls
  - Enabled Editor Tools
  - Maximum [SIZE]
  - Max characters per shout
  - Max images per shout
  - Archive "Top X Shouters" count
  - Active Users block on/off
  - Auto-Delete Shouts
  - Max chat rooms per user
  - Global sound switch
  - Play sounds while idle
  - Per-Usergroup display of moderator actions (like pruning shouts)
  - Ability to disable the "Chat Access" list
  - Project Tools integration
  - Ability to disable Blog notifications
  - Alternating Shout Background Colours
  - Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
    - Every X Posts
    - Every X Threads
    - Every X Members
- Show command log
- Show banned users
- Show shout log
- Maintenance
  - Reset all style customisations
- Ban / Silence management in Edit User

Shoutbox Sessions

Shoutbox activity is tracked separate from users' shouts
Only shows people who perform an action as active
"Active Indicator" on the toolbar shows whether the user is active in the SB or not
Doesn't flag users generating automatic notices as active

Anonym.To Integration

Ability to anonymise any URL entered in the Shoutbox per-instance with Anonym.to
Works with BBCode URLs
Displays regular URL while editing shouts

Disallow "ALL CAPS"

Ability to disallow all caps per-instance
Uses vBulletin's "Prevent SHOUTING" setting to de-caps the shout

New Slash Command: /resetshouts

Resets all users' "Lifetime Shouts" counter to how many shouts they currently have in the system
(Pro) /resetshouts user to reset an individual user's "Lifetime Shouts" counter
Great way to put spammers in their place

Context Menu Improvements

Dedicated context menu item for editing shouts (if user has permission to edit that shout)
Dedicated context menu item for deleting shouts (if user has permission to delete that shout)
JavaScript performance for menu closure operations has been improved

"Invisibility" Toggle

Click the activity status icon to toggle invisibility
Uses the status icon from your vBulletin skin
Hides the user from all activity displays in the entire instance
Great for surprising friends with shouts out of the blue!

Pro

Context Menu Options
Moderation actions
- Add / Update Sticky Note
- Ban / Unban users
- Ignore / unignore users
- Prune user's shouts
Slash commands
- /silencelist for a list of all users silenced in the shoutbox
Separate tab for Notifications
- Lets you hide them from the main view but still have them accessible.
Separate tab for System Messages
- Lets you hide them from main view but still have them accessible.
Detach shoutbox
- Shows a dedicated shoutbox browser window.
Shoutbox Options
- Integration with UserCP
  - General Shoutbox Settings
    - Enable / Disable PMs
    - Enable / Disable Notifications
    - Enable / Disable System Messages
    - Override shout styles
    - Sounds on/off
      - Shout
      - Invite
      - PM
    - Hide alternating shoutbox background colours
    - Hide user avatars
  - Display Settings
    - Hide/Display individual Editor settings (Font, text colour etc)
    - Control shout area location
  - Tab Reordering
    - Re-order chat tabs
Custom Commands
- Add / Edit custom commands
Ignore List
- Add / Remove users
High-level logging logs everything
vBActivity & Awards integration (Award, Achievement, Promotion)
Filter archive shouts by chatroom
Create threads from archive shouts
Search Archive
- Search by
  - Username
  - Last X Hours
  - Start Date
  - End Date
- Sort order for search results
- Shouts per page
Filter archive shouts
Edit/Delete shouts in archive
Separate Sticky notices per instance
Separate usergroup permissions per instance
Assign chat room to any / all instance(s)
Shoutbox Refresh Rate
- While idle
PMs on / off
Archive "Top X Shouters" count
Play sounds while idle
Maintenance
- Reset all style customisations
Ban / Silence management in Edit User
Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
- Every X Blogs
- Every X Shouts
- Every X [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like button clicks received
- Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging thread tags received
- Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging quotes received
- Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging mentions received
- Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed created
- Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed completed
Adjust time stamp format
Per-Usergroup "Can PM" permission

(Pro) Global Custom Commands

Create custom commands that anyone can use via the AdminCP
Prevents users from creating commands with the same shortcut
Great for "canned responses"

(Pro) Per-User Shoutbox Toggle

New UserCP option to turn off the entire shoutbox
Hides it completely from all pages

(Pro) Per-Instance Activity Triggers

Choose what actions trigger new activity
- Create Chat
- Delete Shout
- Fetch Sticky
- Join Chat
- Leave Chat
- User Lookup
- Save Sound Settings
- Save Shout Styles
- User Management
- Chat Tab Switching
- Un-idling
- Toggle "Invisible Mode"

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DragonByte Tech · #**1672** 12-10-2011, 01:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by betts02

Installation Failed
Sorry, the product encountered an error during installation. More information is provided below to help address the issue.

bitfield_dbtech_vbshout.xml not found in directory /home/nextgen6/public_html/forums/includes/xml/

Please drag and drop the contents of the upload folder into your forums/ folder in your FTP program

Quote:

Originally Posted by wat3v3r

We recently uninstalled your shoutbox from our forums but once in a while we get this mysql error emailed to us:

Code:

SELECT
                       userfield.*, usertextfield.*, user.*, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(passworddate) AS passworddate, user.languageid AS saved_languageid,
                       IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid,
                       language.phrasegroup_global AS phrasegroup_global,
                       language.phrasegroup_dbtech_vbshout AS phrasegroup_dbtech_vbshout,
                       language.phrasegroup_user AS phrasegroup_user,
                       language.phrasegroup_posting AS phrasegroup_posting,
                       language.phrasegroup_album AS phrasegroup_album,
                       language.phrasegroup_messaging AS phrasegroup_messaging,
                       language.phrasegroupinfo AS lang_phrasegroupinfo,
                       language.options AS lang_options,
                       language.languagecode AS lang_code,
                       language.charset AS lang_charset,
                       language.locale AS lang_locale,
                       language.imagesoverride AS lang_imagesoverride,
                       language.dateoverride AS lang_dateoverride,
                       language.timeoverride AS lang_timeoverride,
                       language.registereddateoverride AS lang_registereddateoverride,
                       language.calformat1override AS lang_calformat1override,
                       language.calformat2override AS lang_calformat2override,
                       language.logdateoverride AS lang_logdateoverride,
                       language.decimalsep AS lang_decimalsep,
                       language.thousandsep AS lang_thousandsep

               FROM user AS user
               LEFT JOIN userfield AS userfield ON (user.userid = userfield.userid)
               LEFT JOIN usertextfield AS usertextfield ON (usertextfield.userid = user.userid) LEFT JOIN language AS language ON (language.languageid = IF(user.languageid = 0, 1, user.languageid))

               WHERE user.userid = 115561;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'language.phrasegroup_dbtech_vbshout' in 'field list'
Error Number  : 1054

Any reason why this is happening ?

Delete the files that came with the product.

Fillip

wat3v3r · #**1673** 12-10-2011, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Delete the files that came with the product.

Fillip

Thanks am doing that now :erm:

Myth-Scape · #**1674** 12-11-2011, 07:40 AM

Any idea why I get the error (looks like a sticky) that says "error: not found"

forum is 4.1.7 i think (security patch # 2)

i used the second link

I have reloaded three times each time I made sure overwrite was checked.

It shouldn't make a difference but I have like four of the dbtech products on my forum is it possible they are like...glitching with each other or something?

DragonByte Tech · #**1675** 12-12-2011, 02:31 PM

That means vbshout.php doesn't exist in your forum folder. Please drag and drop the contents of the upload folder into your forum folder

Fillip

vBNinja · #**1676** 12-14-2011, 12:04 AM

@DBtech

back to the problem i had:

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivant

i have a problem with the little menu that pops up when you click on someone's name

it pops up under the chatbox ( i have to scroll down the forums) and not next to the name i clicked

any fix?

I got really annoyed by this so I looked for the problem and i guess i found it

when the style I bought updated to 4.1.5 they added a bunch of code on the additional.css, i deleted everything there, saved it, refreshed and the context menu was fine but my site layout was completely broken (relies on the additional.css code i deleted), can you please help me find the part in the additional.css file that is causing the problem, here it is:

Code:

http://pastebin.com/n4UFvB6L

Thank you, i really appreciate it

DragonByte Tech · #**1677** 12-14-2011, 12:38 AM

Sorry, I have no idea what specifically that causes it so I am unable to tell you

What you need to do is, take one bit by one (for instance,

HTML Code:

img {
border:0;
}

is one) and readd them to additional.css until you find the one that disrupts it

Fillip

vBNinja · #**1678** 12-14-2011, 12:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Sorry, I have no idea what specifically that causes it so I am unable to tell you

What you need to do is, take one bit by one (for instance,

HTML Code:

img {
border:0;
}

is one) and readd them to additional.css until you find the one that disrupts it

Fillip

thats alotttt of work :O
do you know what template/class you used to make the context menu hover?

DragonByte Tech · #**1679** 12-14-2011, 12:52 AM

As you can see in the dbtech_vbshout_shoutbox template:

HTML Code:

        <div class="popupmenu" style="display:inline; float:none;">
            <a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl">{vb:raw title}</a>
            <ul class="popupbody popuphover">
                <li><a href="vbshout.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=archive&amp;instanceid={vb:var instance.instanceid}" style="color: {vb:stylevar popupmenu_color};" rel="nofollow">{vb:rawphrase archive}</a></li>
                {vb:raw template_hook.dbtech_vbshout_popupbody}
            </ul>
        </div>

But that doesn't mean that any of the other classes can't be responsible, which is why I recommend taking it step by step

Fillip

vBNinja · #**1680** 12-14-2011, 01:55 AM

UPDATE:

I found the problem:

it is this block of code:

PHP Code:


			
.pageWrap {
    width:{vb:stylevar doc_width};
    margin:{vb:stylevar doc_margin};
    position:relative;
}

specifically this part:

Code:

position:relative;

I removed that line, and my banner as well as some other aspects of my page messed up, but the context menu worked D:

UPDATE: 2

did some research on positioning with css and changed "relative" to "inherit" and it worked like a charm; Fixed the context menu and didn't mess up my layout

ty Google

DragonByte Tech · #**1681** 12-14-2011, 09:09 AM

Good stuff, I wouldn't have had the faintest idea myself xD

Fillip

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