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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* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

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* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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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

[literatestylish]

Any way to have a user be PM'ed when they get a notification? A lot of forums remove the top notifications bar due to style issues (such as mine).

[DragonByte Tech]

Not currently, no. There might be email notification in the future, but that may also be a Pro feature.

Also, if users turn off the PM Popup, your removal of stock vBulletin functionality will render PM notifications equally useless won't it?


Fillip

[NoKSouLz]

Warning: require_once([path]/dbtech/usertag/hooks/cache_templates.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(1269) : eval()'d code on line 281

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/***/***/public_html/forums/dbtech/usertag/hooks/cache_templates.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /***/***/public_html/forums/includes/class_bootstrap.php(1269) : eval()'d code on line 281

Currently receiving this error on the main domain path, using vbulletin 4.03. We also use vCMPS and also mentions don't seem to be notifying users?

[DragonByte Tech]

Please upload the files that came with the zip file as per the Readme.txt instructions


Fillip

[NoKSouLz]

Thanks,

Although the notifications seem to appear, there are no actual mentions retrieved into the mention log. Any assistance?

[DragonByte Tech]

Mentions and User Tags will only show up if the user has permission to view the forum, view threads, and if the user has successfully entered the forum password.

Fillip

[NovoCiv]

It seems I can't be tagged. I think it may be because of the space in my name, whereas users with no spaces in their name are tagged just fine.

[DragonByte Tech]

Usernames with spaces work fine, it's possible that you can't be tagged if you have some form of special character in your name (like a quote or something) but that will be resolved in the next maintenance release


Fillip

[PreciseDemise]

Originally Posted by PreciseDemise

Thanks for the update.

I'm having problems with people with short user names, We have 2 admins with 3 letter user names, and they never get picked up by mentions. I know the lower limit for user names is 5 is that the problem or is it a min length in vBA@UT1.2.1?

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I'm not sure, it could very well be that.

Fillip

Ya, this was the problem, reduced the Min. Username length to match and works great again, sorry to bother =)

[Michlerish]

I'm still getting this error at the very top of the page:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/ribecom/public_html/includes/class_bbcode.php(482) : eval()'d code on line 15

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')' in /home/ribecom/public_html/includes/class_bbcode.php(482) : eval()'d code on line 16

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/ribecom/public_html/includes/class_bbcode.php(482) : eval()'d code on line 15

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')' in /home/ribecom/public_html/includes/class_bbcode.php(482) : eval()'d code on line 16

and this one inside the vBulletin Message:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/ribecom/public_html/includes/class_bbcode.php(482) : eval()'d code
Line: 15

And it stays on the vBulletin Message page, without returning to the thread. If I go back to the thread, I just see:

[MENTION=369]Username[/MENTION]

With no link.

This only happens when product is enabled. Yes, all the files have been uploaded as per the zip file, and vb 4.0 XML imported while allowing overwrite.