Mini Mods - [DBTech] Staff Only Hidden Posts v1 (vB4)

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present Staff Only Hidden Posts v1: Staff Only Hidden Posts allows Administrators, Super Moderators, Forum Moderators, and any additional usergroups that has moderation privileges, to post/view hidden posts.


Why Staff Only Hidden Posts?

It is a neat tool for staff to post in a thread but not allow everyone to see what they posted. These posts are only viewable by the aforementioned usergroups. This Mod uses the vBulletin moderation feature to achieve this. The post however will not show up in the Moderation Queue in the Admincp or Modcp. It is fully phrased so you can edit it to your languages.

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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.

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* 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 for this version is handled at http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/

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Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Complete Feature List

• General Settings
  • Toggle plugin on or off
  • Option to show notification in header
  • Option to display version number in footer
  • DBTech Affiliate ID support

To have a different background color for hidden posts follow this.

In postbit_legacy find:

<div class="postbody">

Change to:

<div class="postbody <vb:if condition="$show['moderated']">moderated</vb:if>">

Then add some CSS to additional.css like:

.postbitlegacy div.postbody.moderated {
background: {vb:stylevar sohp_background};

Then to set the background color go to stylevars, under DragonByteTechMods look for sohp_background and you can set the color there.


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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]

Tick the box next to the post id, the go to moderation tools and select Approve Posts that should take care of that.

Chris

[LLent]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Tick the box next to the post id, the go to moderation tools and select Approve Posts that should take care of that.

Chris

worked like a charm thanks

[DragonByte Tech]

Good, glad it worked.

Chris

[AURFSCAN]

awesome mod.. works great

[DragonByte Tech]

Thanks, glad you like it.

Chris

[Mukashi]

Hmmm. So is there any way for these posts to be marked as having been read (per individual staff member), or will that notifications bar just show the total amount of these in existence?

[DragonByte Tech]

If you click on "Mark Forums Read" in the Forum Actions dropdown or above the footer the message bar then will show 0.

Chris

[Alan_SP]

Moderators who couldn't read hidden posts receive information about them. Is there a way that moderators get notification only when they could see hidden posts?

And, there's one dot (.) after my username after I installed hidden posts. Is there are way to remove it?

[DragonByte Tech]

Where are the moderators getting the information from?

Where is the (.) showing up at?

Chris

[Alan_SP]

For dot (.):



Notice this dot between my name and start of phrase (in Croatian) Novi skriveni postovi... which is in header, on top right position.

I use vBNotifications (Pro) also, that may influence it.

And one my moderator reported (so far, I just installed it) that she see new hidden posts. Actually, she sees notice about new hidden posts, all of them, but can actually see only posts she could see.

So, if you could make somehow that notice isn't shown if there's no hidden posts that moderators couldn't see? That they see notice only about hidden posts they actually could see?

EDIT: Just to add html code that causes dot:

<li class="welcomelink">
Dobrodošli, 
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://slobodni.net/users/4/">Alan_SP</a>
.
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://slobodni.net/sohp.php?do=viewposts&type=moderated">Novi skriveni postovi: 2 </a>
</li>

Dot is obvious here, but don't know where it comes from.