End-User Options - Panic Button - Global

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What Does This Hack Do?[hr]Silver[/hr]
This is a variation to my vBulletin 4.0.x Panic Button - Postbit hack. If you have that hack installed, installing this one, will uninstall that hack.

Do your members ever view your site from work when they should not be doing so? Will they get in to trouble if they do get caught by their boss? If the answer is yes to both questions, then this hack is for you.

This hack gives your members their own vBulletin Boss Key (i.e. Panic button), which is displayed at the bottom right of every page including the CMS, blog and your own custom pages (as long as the headinclude_bottom template is being called by the custom page, which it should be), so your members can quickly click themselves to the safety of legitimate url if the boss turns up, while your members are at work.

NOTE: The Panic Button always floats at the bottom right, even when you scroll down the page.

This hack has been tested and works with Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 4+, Opera 10+, Safari 4+ and Internet Explorer 7+.

This should work with most other browsers and versions, but is not guaranteed, as the positioning is controlled by CSS.

This hack was created because I was inspired by the following two hacks:

• Panic Button 1.01 for vBulletin 3.5.x by yingyang.
• Panic Button 1.0.1 for vBulletin 3.0.x by dsboyce8624.

If your members report errors when clicking on the panic button, first thing to ensure is that they used the full url (including http://) when typing in the site their panic button will go to, ie http://www.google.com (will work) and not like this - www.google.com (will not work). The second thing to check for, is that the Panic Button - URL Jump box is not empty.


Limitation with this hack[hr]Silver[/hr]
People keep asking for usergroup permissions for this hack.

While this would easy to implement, what people fail to realise is that User Profile Fields are not controlled by usergroup permissions at all, and even if usergroup permissions were added to this hack, the User Profile Fields would still be viewable by members even if they do not have permissions to use them.

User Profile Fields are either viewable by all or viewable by none, this is how they were implemented in vBulletin by design, there is no in between with User Profile Fields.

So, I will not be adding usergroup permissions to this hack.


vBulletin Version Compatibility[hr]Silver[/hr]
This hack can be used with vBulletin versions 4.0.0 - 4.2.1.

For the v3.8.x version of this hack, which will also work with v3.7.x and v3.6.x - check here.


Hack Support/Feature Requests[hr]Silver[/hr]
IMPORTANT: This hack is no longer supported.



Install/Uninstall Instructions[hr]Silver[/hr]
The Panic Button - Global Installation Instructions 4.0.xxx.pdf instructions file is included in attached .zip


Version History[hr]Silver[/hr]
v4.0.2 - Saturday 5th February 2011
-- Changed: Version number formatting
-- Added: AdminCP exclude pages option

v4.0.001 - Saturday 20th March 2010
-- Released at Wolfshead Solutions on Saturday 13th March 2010
-- Initial v4.0.x Release


Thanks[hr]Silver[/hr]
Thanks go out to Paul M who gave me permission to use some of his install code.


Show Your Appreciation [hr]Silver[/hr]
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[OldSchoolDSL]

Installed & works in 4.1 PL2

[Mosh]

Hi all,

Free support has now been moved back to vBulletin.org.

Please see the first post for more information (and also this thread at Wolfshead Solutions).

Enjoy

Regards,

Mosh Shigdar - Wolfshead Solutions.

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by gpc10347

Knowing there's no support here for us free riders, I still need to ask:
I find that the panic button graphic appears during a pop up that appears on newattachment.php for a photo gallery... and it appears right on top of the 'Done' button.

Not a huge deal, the plug in works perfectly but it's a little confusing for users uploading pics into the gallery.

Thanks!

mmmmmm...... OK, it is a good idea. I will add an file exclusion list to the next version

[poita]

Just a newbie to forum mods, very easy to setup and install.

Installed and working fine on 4.0.8


Cheers

[Mosh]

Update: v4.0.2
-- Changed: Version number formatting
-- Added: AdminCP exclude pages option

[OldSchoolDSL]

Updated (allow overwrite, yes)

Seems to be working

4.1.1

Thank you for continuing this modification

Question: Is there away to move the panic button a little higher up? Not to much higher from its current point, but for those of us who may have something like Comet-chat installed... The panic button seems to be a little covered up.

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by Trevor Matthews

Hi
Great work. Excellent instructions until the bit about the additional.css, being a vbulletin newbie I struggled to find the file

What would I need to edit to make the button higher up so it doesn't clash with my CometChat button?

Would it be this.....

#panic {
position: fixed;
width: 60px;
bottom: 5px;
right: 5px;
z-index: 999;
}

Do I just make the bottom figure larger?

Thanks again.

regards
Trevor

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

Updated (allow overwrite, yes)

Seems to be working

4.1.1

Thank you for continuing this modification

Question: Is there away to move the panic button a little higher up? Not to much higher from its current point, but for those of us who may have something like Comet-chat installed... The panic button seems to be a little covered up.

You would need to alter the additional.css template in each style:

#panic {
position: fixed;
width: 60px;
bottom: XXpx;
right: YYpx;
z-index: 999;
}

And change the bottom (XXpx) and right (YYpx) settings to alter the location of the panic button.

[Merriweather]

Just upgraded from my old 3.8 to this one on my new 4.1.2. Excellent! Thank you.

[JasonP38]

I uploaded it and installed it following the instructions word for word but its not working....any suggestions?

[Mosh]

Originally Posted by JasonP38

I uploaded it and installed it following the instructions word for word but its not working....any suggestions?

If you did all the steps correctly..... especially Step 7, then I am not sure without looking at your site (I would need a test login for that, just a normal user would do for now).