Forum Home Enhancements - [DBTech] DragonByte Forum Tabs v1 (vB4)

DragonByte Forum Tabs organizes the forum home page and it's forum content into Categories and AJAX Powered Tabs and includes a customizable Favourites Tab and a template editing free install.

Uses

Organizing the forums on the forum home into Tabs and those Tabs into Categories allows administrators to organize their content and reduce the length of the forum list. With AJAX powered Tabs as well as one click Favouriting of forums to add to a user's personal Favourites Tab, DFT makes navigating the forum home a more pleasant and customizable experience for users and admins alike.

Category Tabs can also have different styling allowing for very different looking sections to your forum home page. Tabs are remembered when coming back to the forum home page.

Installation is simple and includes no template edits.

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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

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

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Major Features

AJAX Powered Tabs: Dynamically loaded AJAX Powered Tabs each with a customizable list of forums, including setting Tabs to being global and visible on all Category Tabs.

Stylized Category Tabs: Each Category Tab organizes the AJAX Powered Tabs and can have individual styles attributed to them.

Personal Favourite Tab: Each user can manage and organize their own Favourites Tab to contain just the forums they want to see.


Complete Feature List

Lite

AdminCP

• Customizable Tabs and Category Tabs
• Per Category Style
• Usergroup controlled permissions for each Category and Tab
• Option to sticky Tabs and Categories to prioritise them in display
• Set default tab per Category to override global defaults
• StyleVars for customizing the Tabs and Categories
• Can choose between image, text or both image and text tab display

vBulletin Options

• Set how many columns hidden/unstickied Category Tabs are displayed in
• Set how many columns subforums are displayed in on the forum home
• Enable or Disable the 'More' tab that contains hidden/unstickied Category Tabs
• Tab Idle Timer setting
• Global Default Tab setting
• Option to display notifications to users or not
• Set Default Usergroups when creating new Tabs and Category Tabs
• Disable the display of the Category Tabs

Forum Home

• Tabs load using AJAX
• Category Tabs can use different styles
• Tabs and Category Tabs can use an image only, text only or both text and images
• Favourite Tab
• Add forums to Favourites tab by one click on Forum Home and Forum Display pages
• Add forums via User Control Panel
• Drop down menu to add favourite forums in Forum Display pages
• Unstickied/hidden Category Tabs toggled by 'More' button
• Dimissable notifications for users who have not set a favourite forum or a default ta
• Subforums organized into customizable columns.

Pro

AdminCP

• Optional default or forced forums for Favourites tab
• Choose which instance of vBShout to display for that tab, if any (requires vBShout)

vBulletin Notices

• Set whether a notice will appear above the forums list for a particular tab

Forum Manager

• Automatically add a forum to the Favourites list for all users

vBulletin Options

• Tab Refresh Timer setting
• Option to display Unread Threads Counters on Tabs
• Tab Refresh flood check to prevent excessive tab reload

Forum Home

• Tabs automatically refresh
• Tabs automatically idle
• Tabs automatically unidle
• Remove all favourites options in drop down menu on Forum Home and Forum Display pages
• Add and Remove all subforums from favourites list
• Set default tab to load in the User Control Panel
• Integration with vBulletin's default Notices system so that notices will appear above the forums only when set to
• Unread Thread count can be placed within the Tabs
• vBShout integration above forums per tab (requires vBShout)

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[ozzy47]

Discussions on the Pro versions of the mods need to be handles on their site, not here on vB.org.

[synseal]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Discussions on the Pro versions of the mods need to be handles on their site, not here on vB.org.

My apologies Ozzy, I wasn't aware that buying PRO got you no support in here. I will remember that when considering buying pro in the future.

Cheers.

[ozzy47]

It's not a DBTech policy, it is a vB.org policy.

[Alan_SP]

And just to add, probably all developers who have PRO versions in their portfolios would like opportunity to discuss much more about their pro version than that is allowed at the moment on vborg.

[ozzy47]

That may be true, but I doubt it will change. It has been that way for as long as I can remember.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by synseal

My apologies Ozzy, I wasn't aware that buying PRO got you no support in here. I will remember that when considering buying pro in the future.

Cheers.

Hi there,

We are unfortunately prohibited from discussing our PRO versions here on vb.org. Per vb.org rules we can only do so on our own site. Please post any questions/issues on the pro version there.

On another note we handle support at our site before vb.org support to ensure our customers get the best support experience. It is also easier for us to perform support there as we have a ticket system that allows us to track requests etc. As a result while support at our site is typically handled within a few hours, support here on vB.org is generally significantly more delayed as there is no good way for us to keep track of our 100+ product threads here on vb.org.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Iain

[Guardian Hope]

This is an excellent modification DragonByte Tech. It compliments the chatbox well though I had to change a few lines of code to get it so the chatbox appears with every tab selection. Minor issue because I had to position the chatbox below the forum notices.

Thanks so much!

[mikkel221095]

Just downloaded this, uploaded the required files to the server and imported the plugin via the XML file and it worked fine, but in the AdminCP I don't have the option for DBTech to add tabs? My forum only has the default ones..

[DragonByte Tech]

Changed Features:

• A fresh copy of the jQuery library is now only downloaded if one has not been downloaded previously. Requires updating of all other affected DBTech mods to take full effect.

Fillip

[RedHacker]

Install but why show this ? I use Default Theme of vBulletin in 4.1.7 Version

http://imgur.com/IBSdx21