Show Thread Enhancements - Who has read a Thread

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This displays who has read a thread, and the time they last looked at it.

Hovering over a name will show when the member last viewed the thread, and (optionally) what IP address they viewed it from (Note: as of v3.34 you can only view the ip addresses in the 'View-All' display).

There is now an option to allow a thread author to view who has read their thread when they are not in one of the allowed usergroups. The IP and number of days restrictions still apply.

A new time set/reset facility has been added. Members allowed to use this facility can click on the 'set' link and it will set a personal 'cutoff' time - only showing who has read the thread after that time. The time can be reset as many times as you want, and also completely cleared again. When using this facility there is also a link to allow you to view a seperate list of all readers of the thread.

A cron job has now been added that can (optionally) delete records from the whoread table that are over a certain age - this is provided for large forums where the number of table entries can start to reach a million or more after 12 months. The delete age is a setting in the ACP.

Warning: When using the set/reset option - there is only a limited capacity of entries per thread (several thousand) - therefore you should only allow this feature to be used by a limited number of people - typically Staff usergroups. Allowing all members to use it will probably slow down your forum and cause errors if more than about 3000 members set a date on one thread.


There are settings for the following (in vBulletin Options > Who Has Read a Thread) ;

1. Turn the system on/off.
2. Restrict the display to certain usergroups
3. Restrict the IP display to certain usergroups.
4. Restrict the display to a set number of days.

New in v3.28

5. Option to allow thread author to view who read information.
6. Option to turn on the who read cutoff date (reset) function
7. Restrict use of reset function to certain usergroups.
8. Option to set whoread data records to be cleaned out after xxx days.

New in v3.39

9. Clicking on a user will display a page of their thread viewing history, most recent first.


Note: When using option 4 or the set/reset facility, the data is still kept beyond this limit, so they can be changed at any time.

Download the zip, extract the XML file and import using the vb Product Manager.


History:

v3.20 : First Release for vb 3.6, a few code changes.
v3.21 : Dependancies updated for 3.6.0 Gold.
v3.22 : Updated for Version Checking.
v3.23 : Internal Development version.
v3.24 : Internal Development version.
v3.25 : Internal Development version.
v3.26 : Internal Development version.
v3.27 : Private release.
v3.28 : Public release of new features.
v3.29 : Fixed bug in clean-up, the setting was hours, not days.
v3.30 : Added options to disable/change auto template insert (not released).
v3.31 : Internal Code Changes, Settings Group renamed.
v3.32 : Minor template change.
v3.33 : SQL Changes to use slave.
v3.34 : Added new template for username display code, made 'View-All' always available.
v3.35 : Added last post marker to 'View-All' display.
v3.36 : Fix uncached templates.
v3.37 : Fixed missing date/time display when 'set' function is used.
v3.38 : Moved auto-template options to mods main settings group.
v3.39 : Version infomation added, display of user thread reading activity added.
v3.40 : Bugfix : Correct bugs reported in posts #308 & #318.
v3.41 : Minor changes to install code only.

[Paul M]

There is no such facility atm and it's doubtful I will add anything to this anytime soon.

[rasun]

Originally Posted by Paul M

There is no such facility atm and it's doubtful I will add anything to this anytime soon.

OK thank you for your answer.

[cbiweb]

Love this mod, just installed it, and noticed that the list isn't showing up in private forums? (see screenshot) Is this intentional or is something wrong?

I can see the list in every other forum but private ones.

[Paul M]

Has anyone actually read it (according to that they haven't). What exactly do you mean by a "Private" forum - it's fine in all our staff forums.

[cbiweb]

People have definitely read the thread, because they also posted replies.

The list doesn't show in any of my staff forums, nor the forums for a specific usergroups.

EDIT: Just checked again, now it's working. *scratches head* All is well, sorry about the false alarm. (*scratches head again*)

Excellent mod!

[BadgerDog]

Hi Paul ...

Installed and it seems to work fine for forums that are read/write....

We use reference library forums where users can view "canned" threads, but not respond to them. In those, it says "0" users, even though the number of reads of the thread indicate high amounts. ie: 50+

Any suggestions? Does it start building the database from the time I install, so those threads that haven't been read in a while will show "0" until people start reading them after your mod has been installed?

Regards,
Badger

ps: I'm also not getting IP addresses displayed (Display ALL), even though I have the option turned ON for 5,6,7 and I'm an administrator. It just shows the IP address for myself?

[Paul M]

Sadly, as time travel has not yet been invented, it cannot tell you who read something before it was installed.

I think the ip address function probably only works on primary usergroup (I don't have time to start checking that atm, as I'm off out).

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Sadly, as time travel has not yet been invented, it cannot tell you who read something before it was installed.

Thanks Paul ...

I thought that might be the case, but apparently with some forums it has been invented.

I'm able to read threads in our general discussions forum and at the bottom with the mod installed and truned on, they show doezens of user entires with dates that go back weeks, even immediately after the install.

Regards,
Badger

ps: Paul, I forgot to ask.... does this mod impact system performance greatly? Thanks...

.... and I've also just noticed that IP addresses have started appearing. It looks like they started recording sometime after the mod was installed....

[Paul M]

Actually, it can sort of go back in time - I forgot that if you have been using the vb database thread marking system, it will read that data and use it to populate it's own database - however, for performance issues on installation, it only reads the first 10,000 marking records.

[BadgerDog]

Thanks .... nice work ... as with all of your modes....

Regards,
Badger