Version: 1.1.0, by akanevsky
Developer Last Online: Feb 2016
Version: 3.5.x
Rating:
Released: 05-06-2006
Last Update: 07-02-2009
Installs: 86
DB Changes Uses Plugins Auto-Templates
Additional Files Translations
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I no longer support my hacks. Please feel free to update them and release new versions elsewhere as long as I get the credit for the original modification.
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|| Quick Account Switch
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Jul 03, 2009
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|| Time required to install: ~30 seconds
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION
This modification gives users the ability to easily switch between linked accounts. Accounts can be linked by administrators via admincp or by users via usercp as long as these users know the passwords for both accounts. Optionally, you can disallow users to link and unlink accounts from the usercp.
STATISTICS
File Uploads: 1
Products to Install: 1
FEATURES
Adds AdminCP and UserCP controls to link and unlink accounts.
Allows to easily switch between linked accounts from the navbar.
Allows to disable the public UserCP controls and leave just the AdminCP part.
VERSION HISTORY
1.1.0 [+] Compatible with vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x. [+] Removed all template modifications. [+] Added option to disable usercp controls for linking accounts.
1.0.1 [+] The modification is now officially compatible with vBulletin 3.6. [+] The hack has been optimized and now performs much less queries than before. [+] Users now can link accounts without an administrator as long as they know the passwords for both accounts.
I still don't get it. The Nav bar has User CP, FAQ, etc., my name isn't there.
If I go to a post with my name in the "postbit"(?), there isn't an option to switch anything.
But, how do you link a name? I don't see anything in the Admin CP at all for this. The directions don't say HOW to use it, how to find it...
I've done the install correctly (I've done lots of them), but this one has me baffled.
still need help.
Once you've uploaded the files to their proper place (see Psionic's response above,) done the product install and template changes, make sure you go to the user's profile in AdminCP and actually LINK them to another user.
That's when the pulldown will appear next to their name:
Welcome Tralala! -v-
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Tralala,
That is intended behavior, you can only have one session per browser instance.
If I do not clear old session on switch and have two sessions, the results are undefined.
Furthermore, as vBulletin only has one login/pass pair per browser instance, you cannot have more than one logged in user.
If you want more than one logged in user, you'll have to open two different browsers.
Tralala,
That is intended behavior, you can only have one session per browser instance.
If I do not clear old session on switch and have two sessions, the results are undefined.
Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation. I figured it was a browser/vB session limitation like that. So when this hack says the accounts are linked... they really and truly are LINKED!
It is working as intended, then. Works great for me as an admin with some Bot and tester accounts.
With this caveat, I think I will offer this as a convenience to the members on my forum, too, who share a computer (it's a small social and family-oriented forum.) As long as they understand that it gives each member full access to the other's account, they might appreciate this QuickSwitch over having to log out and log in all the time.
Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation. I figured it was a browser/vB session limitation like that. So when this hack says the accounts are linked... they really and truly are LINKED!
It is working as intended, then. Works great for me as an admin with some Bot and tester accounts.
With this caveat, I think I will offer this as a convenience to the members on my forum, too, who share a computer (it's a small social and family-oriented forum.) As long as they understand that it gives each member full access to the other's account, they might appreciate this QuickSwitch over having to log out and log in all the time.
Correction: Not full access. Each linked person would still require the knowledge of current password for any of the accounts in order to change the password or the e-mail to something new.
Correction: Not full access. Each linked person would still require the knowledge of current password for any of the accounts in order to change the password or the e-mail to something new.
Hello Psionic Vision, I talk about to give this option to some groups (Premium, more active, etc), perhaps with a setting in ACP, not necessarily in Usergroups properties. Naturally, they would need to write the password of the linked account to can add it.
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05-09-2006, 11:03 PM
What usergroup option are you talking about?
