Major Additions - Product Review Forums ? Research, Review & Compare Items

Version 1.4.0 has been released to remove the giftery / list it integration of the addon now that service has been discontinued. No upgrade is needed though there have been a few other bug changes since 1.3.5.

Finding Feedback Can be Like a Needle in a Haystack

The more your forum grows, the more of a challenge it becomes to sort through the history and get the full story.

Product Review Forums Brings Structure to the Chaos

As a full-featured product management addon, PRF sits on top of your forum allowing you to create defined products which, unlike individual posts, stay relevant over time. Each comment, review and even product updates filter back into this one spot allowing for a quick and comprehensive overview while the individual discussions rage on as always.

Here's just a few of the many features you'll find in PRF:

• Bring structure to products with established pages & reviews
• Reduce the number of repetitive posts from members looking up the same info
• Increase your traffic with content-rich, seo friendly, product listings
• Drive revenue by adding your own affiliate links to product listings
• Increase the activity stream's value with review integration
  
• Engage visitors with integrated wishlists from Giftery.me

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Installation is not upload & go... individualized settings are required. Read the install file.

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Enabling Product Forums: To show product details and ratings, each product-forum must be enabled in the forum manager.

Adding Products: You may upload products one at a time through the admin [includes an image uploader using GD] or you can bulk import through XML. You can also enable users to add moderated products through a global and usergroup option.

Product Review Index: To access your forum's product overview go to www.yoursite.com/productforums.php - You may want to add a link to this to your navbar or as a tab.

Customization: This addon is made to be customized. To change the color schema see clientscript/vbulletin_css or dive right on in to the templates and phrases.

Powered by Giftery.me: This mod is maintained includes two integrations you should know about. Both can be controlled through the mod options.

[Ricsca]

In my forum is on the box for quick response.
Is there a way to disable it in the forum to display the reviews?
The quick answers are not counted as votes.

[Kirk Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by Ricsca

In my forum is on the box for quick response.
Is there a way to disable it in the forum to display the reviews?
The quick answers are not counted as votes.

The quick reply box is removed in the latest version, which version are you using?

[Ricsca]

excuse is true

[RPSmedia]

Originally Posted by Ted S

1.3+ gives admin photo uploading and resyncing user submitted images.

You add fields through your AdminCP. Expand the first PRF option group on the navbar.

Sorry for being a pain. I'm running 1.3.0 beta 2.

I'm guessing you're talking about adding fields in the Custom Ratings Field? When I do that, nothing shows up.

** edit - I just upgraded to 1.3.1 but still can't get the extra options to show up. Thanks.

[Kirk Fitzgerald]

Hi Ted,
found a bug, when searching for products in the admincp, when I select a specific category (Pipes) I get a page saying 151 results and the first 10 results, when i click next page the search result returns 'all' 366 products not just the remainder of the 151 from Pipes that I searched for.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by qpurser

Sorry if my explanation was a little complicated to follow.
I went through all the steps again and I found the issue. I had something wrong in my URL settings for the image folder.

Really sorry I have wasted your time to follow up on this while it was my mistake. Feel so stupid right now.

Michael

No problem!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Ricsca

Now it works, really nice component ...

you can upload images to the users?

End users can not upload images. They can however add a url for an image which the admin can either upload or import via the image sync script.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by RPSmedia

Sorry for being a pain. I'm running 1.3.0 beta 2.

I'm guessing you're talking about adding fields in the Custom Ratings Field? When I do that, nothing shows up.

** edit - I just upgraded to 1.3.1 but still can't get the extra options to show up. Thanks.

Have you upgraded from a past version? If so, check that your templates are all reverted.

If not, what are the settings on your custom groups?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Kirk Fitzgerald

Hi Ted,
found a bug, when searching for products in the admincp, when I select a specific category (Pipes) I get a page saying 151 results and the first 10 results, when i click next page the search result returns 'all' 366 products not just the remainder of the 151 from Pipes that I searched for.

Thanks. We'll get this tackled in 1.3.2

[Kirk Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Thanks. We'll get this tackled in 1.3.2

Excellent, look forward to it.