New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB4)

Advanced @User Tagging: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.

The @user Tagging mod is designed to increase activity on your forum by allowing members to mention each other in posts when talking about them.
This is done in a very easy way, very similar to how Twitter mentions people. We use @ ; as the tags, so for instance you could say:
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This new mod from @Dragonbyte Tech; is pretty cool.
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The ?@DragonByte Tech;? Will become a link to the DragonByte Tech users profile, it will also inform DragonByte Tech they had been mentioned, and link to the relevant thread/post via a new area in the profile section, as well as a new tab in the shoutbox.

It also allows members to ?tag? the thread for specific other members by inputting their usernames in the tag box above the posts of the thread.

This is a great way to increase your forum activity with no extra admin input required ? people will start to mention posts/threads to their friends, which will increase the amount of posting. This is especially useful of forums which have an international contingent (so threads posted in during the night for some of your members don't go overlooked) or forums which have a lot of posts/threads each day ? again to make sure that a post a person might want to read doesn't get lost in the crowd.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.

Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.

Profile Integration: Displays Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile tabs for quick overview of a member's activities within the mod.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Emails:

• Email alerts for all features
• Globally disable emails for any of the features

General Features:

• Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
• Globally disable any of the features

General:

• Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
• "Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
• Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
• Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
• View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
• Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags
• Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
• Control how many users to display in inline tag list
• Turn statistics page on & off
• Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
• Control [DBTech] vBShout integration
• Turn features on & off per category
• Globally disable email alerts
• Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)

Pro

• Hash Tags:
  • One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
  • Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar widget with Recent and Trending hash tags
  • Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
  • Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
  • Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
  • Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score
  • Deny usergroups access to sidebar block
  Emails:
  • Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features
  General Features:
  • Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.
  General:
• Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
• Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
• Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
• Hide forum notifications for individual features
• Turn off email alerts for individual features
• Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
• (vB4) Forum Sidebar block with Recent & Trending hash tags
• (vB4) Works with the Mobile Style (4.1.12+)
• Turn tag list off
• Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
• Hide "@" on mentions
• Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
• Exclude usergroups from features
• Exclude users from features

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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

[buffaloscooby]

I'm having an issue where it looks like there are 2 tabs between Mentioned: and the # of posts.

For example:



I can't seem to find where I would adjust that spacing though. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[Conehead555]

This needs an option to not get notifications from your ignore list.

[KiltedCodeNinja]

I just installed this on VB 4.1.8, and then mentioned myself and another user in a test post. I can see the mentions on the User CP for myself, but did not receive an email notification. Is that supposed to be immediate, or is it a batch process?

Other than that, liking the mod. FYI, our admincp is in a custom folder, so if there is code that references the default location, I will need to know where to change it.

[KiltedCodeNinja]

Just received this error message after enabling the mod and clicking on the main Forum link in the menu:

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: Display_Visitors_User in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4293

It repeats many times and goes away when I disable this mod, so something related to it.

[ForceHSS]

Originally Posted by KiltedCodeNinja

Just received this error message after enabling the mod and clicking on the main Forum link in the menu:

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: Display_Visitors_User in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4293

It repeats many times and goes away when I disable this mod, so something related to it.

You have an invalid redirect url somewhere on your site going by that line in the functions.php but wait for the coder as he will know better if you need help right away post on his site for support

[creative-friend]

how to turn off Email notification?

[ForceHSS]

Have you checked the settings?
DragonByte Tech: Advanced User Tagging - General Options/Disabled Emails

[ifitsmedia]

Thanks for the excellent mod.

Any chance you could implement autocomplete for usernames, similar to what VB core has for composing a PM?

[Mr Morningstarr]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

This is because you have changed the character set of some of your database tables without setting the global default for the entire database.

Please also perform those changes for the User Tagging tables. You should also bring such errors to your system administrator before posting them to us, as we are unable to resolve issues in the configuration made by your system administrator.


Fillip

Have you any idea which tables need to be compatible. I've tried changing the character sets of my database tables, and some won't change without causing further errors.

[Danny M]

Is there any way to edit the re-direct problem?

On my forum when you go to the Mentions tab on the user's profile and click a link, it shows like this:

http://www.[forumurl].com/[id]-[thread-title]-post1301443.html#post1301443

But then it redirects to this:

http://www.[forumurl].com/[id]-[thread-title]-10.html

And because of this, it only takes you to the page you are mentioned on, not the actual post.

I'm looking for a fix? Thanks