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DragonByte Technologies are proud to present InfoPanels v2: The most feature-packed Welcome Panel system for vBulletin, and the first Welcome Panel system for vBulletin 5!

Why InfoPanels?

Info Panels is another product from DragonByte Technologies, creators of vBActivity and vBShout. Info Panels allows you to display useful and interesting information in a much more user friendly way, allowing your members to access important areas of the forum, and important information, without having to go through different menu screens.

The Welcome Panel displays all the information your users may want to see instantly when they log on, without having to go searching for it. A handy Module format means you don't have to fiddle with complex code in order to drop it on ANY page, you simply use the Site Manager natively in vBulletin 5!

The Top X Stats portion of the software allows your users to keep track of whats going on in the forum almost in real time - perfect for boards with many forums which are hard to keep track of!

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Complete Feature List

Welcome Panel

• The user's picture with link to the profile where they can edit their User Picture
• New posts and threads since the user's last visit
• Time and date
• # unread PMs (# total PMs)
• Forum Stats: Total Members / Total Threads / Total Posts
• Top Poster with link to their profile, showing number of posts and threads they have
• Own Posts / Threads
• # Posts Per Day (# Posts Today)
• % of forum's total posts
• What forum the user is most active in (# posts and # threads)
• Latest News ticker with fade between news items (settable in vBulletin Options)
• Link to User Settings page

Top X Stats

• Choose "X"
• Disable each individual block
• Set various options per block
• Create new blocks with different options based on each Block Type
• User Stats
  • Newest Members
  • Top Posters
  • Top Thread Starters
• Forum Statistics
  • Newest Replies
  • Most Viewed Threads

Caching

• Fully integrated with vBulletin 5's new Cache functionality using the "Standard" cache type
• Settable Time-To-Live in vBulletin options to balance stale content with resource savings
• "Global" stats such as the Forum Stats in the above list are cached user-agnostic
• Per-user stats like # Posts Per Day are cached per-user

Easy Setup

• A hassle-free Module setup lets you drop the Welcome Panel on literally any page via vBulletin 5's Site Builder!
• Configurable Module title lets you rename the "Welcome Panel" header should you choose
• Fully integrated with the Site Builder under the "Display" grouping

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This mod displays a copyright notification on all pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[shimei]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Hi there,

At this time, I'm not aware of any issues with the latest version of vB5. Are you guys experiencing a problem just now?


Fillip

Yes, I have 5.1.9 patch 3 currently operating with infopanels pro/full version. I attempted to upgrade to 5.1.10, the infopanels had not displayed. I reverted back to 5.1.9 patch 3, and will wait until your products are updated (as well as another company's products). None of the 3rd party products I have working on 5.1.9 patch 3 function with 5.1.10.

[DragonByte Tech]

Hi there,

I'll look into compatibility issues on vB 5.1.10 as soon as I can. Thanks


Fillip

[shimei]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Hi there,

I'll look into compatibility issues on vB 5.1.10 as soon as I can. Thanks


Fillip

Any word yet? I see that other products were not compatible with 5.2.0. Will this be?

Thanks,
Shim

[DragonByte Tech]

No. The same thing applies to ALL our vB5 products.

Fillip

[shimei]

I don't know what to say. I decided to upgrade and just trash Infopanels. However, after upgrading completely to 5.2.1 patch 1 the infopanels work except for admin controls (won't save).

Shim

[bigbear83]

Originally Posted by shimei

I don't know what to say. I decided to upgrade and just trash Infopanels. However, after upgrading completely to 5.2.1 patch 1 the infopanels work except for admin controls (won't save).

Shim

^^ This. Works for me on 5.2.1

The only issues that I'm seeing as far as this mod is concerned are the stats in the "Welcome Panel" are completely wonky and incorrect. You also having this dilemma there @shimei? However the "Top Stats" are in fact correct. Weird.

And yes as I'm seeing with just about all of @DragonByte Tech mods here on vB.org, the admincp settings absolutely do not save!

Keeps taking me to a page that says -> "Invalid Page URL. If this is an error and the page should exist, please contact the system administrator and tell them how you got this message."

Otherwise all is good here.

[DragonByte Tech]

I put out a hotfix that should resolve ACP issues.

Fillip

[lenny_h]

I'm noticing a problem with the "newest replies" list in the Top X Stats block. We have a hidden forum restricted for a custom usergroup (and higher) to be able to see only and it works for that purpose, but the "newest replies" makes this forum's activity visible to all users, even those not logged into the site at all! (Guests/visitors). We've gone over the permissions very carefully to make sure the error wasn't ours, even taking away all permissions to that forum temporarily from all but super admins and its replies still get listed in the block. This looks like some issue that cropped up in the past with this add-on, no? Any thoughts? Running 5.2.2 and newest infopanels from your site.

[Ashlar217]

Works like a charm on 5.2.4

[mdawg]

I installed on my 5.2.4 test forum - seemed okay. But when I installed on my actual forum, some issues:


It does work, however Welcome Panel statistics aren't correct. (1) At my forum for example it says that I have 5 unread PMs, but I don't show any new messages.

I had a different user check, your app showed that he had 2 unread messages - of total of 10, also incorrect as he had 0 unread of 6 total in his inbox.

(2) No matter WHEN the last time was that you logged into the forum, the mod always says that the last time was ".....your last visit at Today 12:00 AM." Always Today at midnight no matter what.

(3) Also, error:


So, the app needs some modification/updates it is still buggy.


P.S. As far as "hot fixes" - my suggestion is to just update the version number anytime you make changes. I run multiple forums and trying to figure out whether each has the latest of your various softwares is problematic otherwise.