Staff can Post Hidden Posts

Alright, this Modification is a port of my 3.0.0 Version here.

Short description:

This mod allows you and your moderators, to post hidden posts, which will be visible just to your staff, but not to the users, which will allow you to have comfortable conversations about an issue directly within a thread, withoput users noticing.

There is no more to say. The modification is installed here since a long time and no problems appeared, but i still consider it as a beta version, right now, until usertest have approved it as well

Enjoy

[Shahed]

Originally Posted by tspepper

THANK YOU! With the changes below, I am able to have this run perfectly in 3.6!

[rms-2004]

Hello,
I will pay for the editpost modification (make it visible/invisible). Anyone can help me? PM me if you can. Thank you.

[Shahed]

Originally Posted by rms-2004

Hello,
I will pay for the editpost modification (make it visible/invisible). Anyone can help me? PM me if you can. Thank you.

what's problem?

[rms-2004]

There is no "Make this Post Visible/Invisible" radiobutton in editpost so the users can not edit visibility of the post like in Hidden Posts advanced.txt for vB 3.0. How to add this feature?

[Nilsd]

Originally Posted by Pyrix

Anyone had any luck getting this to work with 3.6.0?

Anyone had any luck getting this to work with 3.7.0?

[davidw]

This works in at least 3.7.0 beta 6. With a basic install, and minor modifications, it works fine. The only thing out of place is I see a notification upon posting that says

This post is a duplicate of a post that you have posted in the last five minutes. You will be redirected to that thread.

The changes I made were as in post 97 above and I've modified the install instructions (this works for my site, but may or may not work on yours.

edit Template showthread
FIND:

					<fieldset class="fieldset" style="margin:$stylevar[formspacer]px 0px 0px 0px">
						<legend>$vbphrase[options]</legend>
						<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
							<if condition="$bbuserinfo['signature']">
								<div style="float:$stylevar[right]"><label for="cb_signature"><input type="checkbox" name="signature" value="1" id="cb_signature" tabindex="5" checked="checked" />$vbphrase[show_your_signature]</label></div>
							</if>
							<label for="qr_quickreply"><input type="checkbox" name="quickreply" value="1" id="qr_quickreply" accesskey="w" tabindex="4" />$vbphrase[quote_message_in_reply]</label>
						</div>
					</fieldset>

Replace with:

					<fieldset class="fieldset" style="margin:$stylevar[formspacer]px 0px 0px 0px">
						<legend>$vbphrase[options]</legend>
						<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
							<if condition="$bbuserinfo['signature']">
								<div style="float:$stylevar[right]"><label for="cb_signature"><input type="checkbox" name="signature" value="1" id="cb_signature" tabindex="5" checked="checked" />$vbphrase[show_your_signature]</label></div>
							</if>
							<label for="qr_quickreply"><input type="checkbox" name="quickreply" value="1" id="qr_quickreply" accesskey="w" tabindex="4" />$vbphrase[quote_message_in_reply]</label>
						</div>
						<if condition="can_moderate()">
							<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
							<div style="float:$stylevar[right]"><label for="cb_openclose"><input type="checkbox" name="openclose" value="1" id="cb_openclose" /><if condition="$threadinfo['open']">Close<else />Open</if> Thread</label></div>
							<label for="cb_hidepost" style="float:$stylevar[left]"><input type="checkbox" name="hidepost" value="1" id="cb_hidepost" />Hide Post?</label>
							</div>
						</if>
					</fieldset>

edit navbar template:
find:

<if condition="$show['member']">
	<td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap">
	<div class="smallfont">
		<strong><phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]" 2="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$bbuserinfo[userid]">$vbphrase[welcome_x_link_y]</phrase></strong><br />
		<phrase 1="$pmbox[lastvisitdate]" 2="$pmbox[lastvisittime]">$vbphrase[last_visited_x_at_y]</phrase>

		<if condition="$show['notifications']">
			<div><span id="notifications"><a href="usercp.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[your_notifications]:</a> <strong>$notifications_total</strong></span></div>
			<script type="text/javascript"> vBmenu.register("notifications"); </script>
		<else /><if condition="$show['pmstats']">
			<div><phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase></div>
		</if></if>

add under

		<!-- Hidden posts -->
		<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 5,6,7)">
		<div class="smallfont">
			<a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=findhiddenposts&special=getnew">View $newhiddenposts New Hidden Posts</a>
		</div>
		</if>
		<!-- Hidden posts -->

[Boofo]

I get no db error with it. The error you see about being redirected to the thread is an ajax issue. You get the error when you try to submit the post more than once. If you refresh the page after submitting the post the first time you will see the post is there.

Any idea who to center the text for the postbit on the date info line?

[Boofo]

Do you have ajax turned off then? I was using the quick reply.

Actually, the correct fix would be:

PHP Code:

if ($post['hidepost'] AND can_moderate())
{
 // remove entry of moderation queue
 $vbulletin->db->query_write("
  DELETE FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "moderation
  WHERE postid = " . $post[postid] . "
 ");
} 


[davidw]

It is set to Enable All AJAX Features and tested using quick reply.

[Boofo]

Then how it your post showing without refreshing the page? Share the fix, sir.

My post above has the correct fix for your error.