Private Messages Enhancements - Private Message Quote Formatting

What is it?
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This mod arranges quotes in a PM to be in a "conversational" order instead of being nested. This solves the problem of displaying deeply-nested quotes. This mod also has an option to add a date/time stamp to quoted PMs.

Note: I'm marking this "beta" because it hasn't been tested very much. If you try this, please let me know if you have any problems or would like it to work differently.

Also, I'm not much of an html/css person - this mod mostly provides variables which can be checked in the template, and a bare-bones css file. If anyone comes up with css for a better looking format and wants to share it, please do (and maybe I'll put it in a later version).

(vb3 version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=292996)


Installation:

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Just import the product XML file from the Product Manager. This doesn't change stored PMs in any way (unless you enable the date/time stamp - see below), so you can uninstall or disable the product at any time to go back to the original PM template.

If you'd like to customize the format, you can edit the kh99_pm_quote, kh99_pm_quote_bit, and/or the kh99_pm_quote.css templates.

If you want to add date/time tags to PM quotes, go to the adminCP options under "Private Messaging Options" and set "Add Date and Time to Quotes" to yes. Note that if you later uninstall this mod, any messages quoted while this option was on will still contain a date/time tag, but it will display after the name in a default format and timezone. If this is a concern, it's probably better that you don't enable this option.

Also note that the date/time option only adds the timestamp to newly quoted messages - it will not add one to quotes in existing messages.


History:
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0.91 (Dec 22, 2012)

• Fixed conflict with at least one mod that adds default text formmating
• Fixed problem with html in pm notification email
• Option to show only N newest quotes and hide the rest
• Optional Date/Time tag added to quotes in PMs
• Added enable/disable option for the entire product, in admincp
• Templates are now cached
  

0.9 (Dec 14, 2012)

• Initial Release

[kh99]

Hmm...I looked over the code and couldn't see why a custom style would make any difference, but I may have missed something. Do you have any other PM related mods installed? There could be a conflict with something else.

When you look at the bbcode for your pm, do the quotes look like

Originally Posted by kh99

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I'm sorry it's not working for you. I'd like to help you figure it out but the truth is that I can't think of why it wouldn't work.

...oh, I guess you could go to the Private Message Options in the settings and make sure the mod is enabled, but it should be enabled by default so I can't think why it wouldn't be.

[CAG CheechDogg]

I have a custom style and it's working ..did you make sure you set it to Yes enabled in the settings ....for some reason when I installed it the first time it didn't installed with the "yes" enabled on ...

[CAG CheechDogg]

Originally Posted by kh99

...oh, I guess you could go to the Private Message Options in the settings and make sure the mod is enabled, but it should be enabled by default so I can't think why it wouldn't be.

This was my issue the first time I installed it kh99...weird right?

[kh99]

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg

This was my issue the first time I installed it kh99...weird right?

That is strange. I just double checked the xml and it has a default of on, but who knows, maybe something's going on that I don't understand.

[Gadget_Guy]

It was on.

I turned it off, then on again... just to see.

I enabled the date/time thing and that is working.

I even changed all the execution times for the hooks to be "1" instead of "5"

The PM e-mail that is being sent is formatted differently than before so something is happening.

But the output on the site looks the same as before.

Attached are screen shots of my settings, all my installed plugins, and what my PM back and forth looks like.

D.

[kh99]

OK, the settings look good, and you're getting the date/time stamps so at least part of the mod is running. You have quite a few products installed so I'm afraid there isn't any way I'm going to be able to test all those. A couple of them have something to do with PMs but they don't sound like they should interfere. I see you have DBTech vB Optimise - I don't know what that does but I'll bet it touches a lot of things.

Still don't know.

BTW, it shouldn't change the way the PM emails are formatted. It had a problem with that in an earlier version but I put in a check so that the emails should be getting the default handling.

[Gadget_Guy]

Okay.

No worries.

I completely understand that my situation and setup may not be idea for the mod.

In no ways does it reflect poorly on you or the mod....

Keep up the good work.

D.

[Alan_SP]

Just to ask, did you flush cache in vBOptimise? This could affect mod not changing how PMs look.

[Gadget_Guy]

I did flush cache.

D.

[Alan_SP]

I took a look at mods you have, we have very similar setup. Of course there's difference. Can't tell why it doesn't work for you.