Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Zoints Private Thread Comments for Staff

This modification is a fantastic means for staff members to efficiently communicate within a thread without normal members being able to see what is said. It has been tested extensively by quite a few different forums.

This box appears in showthread.php for staff members. Only staff can see it.




The admincp options:




Official support for this modification will take place at http://network.zoints.com in this specific forum.

Enjoy and be sure to check out our other modifications

CHANGELOG:

2008/05/01 - 1.2.1
- Compatible with vB's CSRF protocol

[q8-star]

The mod is great, I'm installing it soon. also hoping that you add more features in the upcoming versions.

Maybe adding an indication or icon in FORUMDISPLAY to indicate there is a new comment, with indication of read and unread..

[SportsZone]

This hack is a great idea, but I think it would be better if this mod used BB code and it was coded in a way which only admin/mods could see. This way, you can add comments to posts, which only the site staff can see, instead of saying something above the first post, which imo, is quite inconvenient. I'm not sure if it's possible to create, but it would be a great hack

Just my 2c

[Illustrious]

Can you set it so that it only shows up in select forums? That'd be useful.

[Natalie@Club]

I have installed this and it installed beautifully, no template hacking, nadda. Excellent plugin, thank you

[ACIKillJoy]

How bout an option so that the actual input box could be user defined as far as its location within the thread. With either both at the top both at the end or the posted comments at the top with the actual editer at the end. (by the end i mean by the quick reply)
some options as to where these appear would be supurb.
Also having a per forum option would be great. I know that my site we will only really need it in 4 or so of the 49 dif forum and subforums and that it would make it easier to manage.
Also having an icon/image show in the thread header just like if there has been a deleted post would be supurb.

Installed

[Domenico]

Originally Posted by ACIKillJoy

How bout an option so that the actual input box could be user defined as far as its location within the thread. With either both at the top both at the end or the posted comments at the top with the actual editer at the end. (by the end i mean by the quick reply)
some options as to where these appear would be supurb.
Also having a per forum option would be great. I know that my site we will only really need it in 4 or so of the 49 dif forum and subforums and that it would make it easier to manage.
Also having an icon/image show in the thread header just like if there has been a deleted post would be supurb.

Installed

I agree!

I don't want it on top but I want it under the thread. I can't find the code to do it myself but that is my fault.

Can you please add this option or can someone lead me the way to do this?

Thanks!

[Twilkey]

I just installed this. Well is there a way to get the input boxes to the bottom of the page and also I have two input boxes for some reason and when I add a comment it adds it twice. Can you help please.

[AzH]

Originally Posted by Twilkey SRT

also I have two input boxes for some reason and when I add a comment it adds it twice. Can you help please.

the plugin automatically attempts to add the thread comments option. you might have done what i did which is add the $threadcomments to the relevant template when it wasn't necessary. Removing it fixed it.

[Zoints]

If someone would like to make a small icon for forumdisplay.php that signifies that there is a staff comment in the thread, we'll look into making that request happen this weekend. Our graphic guy is on vacation.

We're also going to look into adding the option to make the box appear at the bottom of the thread.

[GSX-Racing]

Is there any way we could have a little text above the box saying 'Moderator Notes:" or something?