Geek Realtime Amporphic Modnotes Per-post System 1.0

From the makers of the colour green and purple comes the most exciting and fun way to moderate your forum: GRAMPS

In a nutshell, gramps simply allows you to keep 'inline' notes on a post by post basis viewable for admins, mods and/or whatever groups you define.

Its pretty self explanitory by the attachment pic and the acronymn GRAMPS (er - ok... the name sucks but who really cares? I always wanted to do a hack whose name sounded overly complicated, yet the acronymn was pants. Now I have done it!)

Please read the readme (there are vital install instructions buried in there!) and click the frickin install button. Ive wasted much of a sunny sunday doing this because I needed it for my forum.

nJoy

[Corriewf]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Wow, it seems that no one is using vb3.07 anymore!?

Everything I have been writing lately is with 3.5 in mind, for easy upgrades - but I didnt think so many people were running live with beta boards. huh!

Paul - thanks... I swear I did guess I didnt. Those boxes can be a bit funky sometimes

Corrie - I guess I forgot the gish folder in the install package though most people will have installed any of my other macks will have it or just add it themselves (ill stick the empty folder in the package today).
I didnt add the admincp changes as the only thing is the settings which is pretty much a one off, therefore I didnt see the need to put a permenant place in the admincp index. I guess it could always be an option though.

As for the pineapple - you may just have to wait and see. Ill shortly begin the extensive work to upgrade GAS. The adventures of the Pineapple may just be concluded there.

nJoy and thanks

Hell, im using 3.0.3 and plenty happy. I think ive invested too many eggs into this basket to upgrade. I was going to add it myself to the admin section but like you said, its more of a one time deal. Maybe an option to add to one of the options in vb options. :P , but thatas about as far as it would need to go. You did include the directory structure in the install read me so it wasnt hard to make it myself, but it was a little nerve racking at first trying to figure out if I had done something wrong.

Thanks for your hack and your help.

[Corriewf]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Not a bad idea. I was going to rename it to:

GRAMPS: The moderation system that lets you grumble at young whipper snappers without them knowing you are doing so

Damn youn punks. I remember back in the day when we used to have to create secret forums to make our notes, ten feet in the snow.

[Lionel]

I am using 3.07 and do not plan to upgrade for a long time.

Back to this hack, is there a way to prevent windows to remember the popup windows size? All subsequent browsers open with the same tiny size.

[The Geek]

Ill stick something in - The size is set in the template.

[Lionel]

It's not the size. It's the javascript itself. Using the resize function forces all subsequent pages that opens with a link to be like that, because Windows remembers the last size of a browser. Maybe a popup with no toolbar, no scroll etc...?

[The Geek]

Ah - gotcha Lionel. WIll sort that out.

[Mla7a6]

nice hack.. my moderators loved it.. but I have a small Q.
can you edit or delete any comment? and how?

thanks for the great installer.. its the BEST!!

[m0nde]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Woohoo. Looks like I have created a winner here!

*beats off crazy vB admins with a stick

Is there a way to view all of the notes in one go, with references to which threads they belong to?

If not, this would be a very useful addition...

- Sid

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by m0nde

Is there a way to view all of the notes in one go, with references to which threads they belong to?

If not, this would be a very useful addition...

- Sid

I was working on that before I left for vacation but havent gotten to release it yet. Ill finish it off when I get home and release the update

[m0nde]

It looks like there's a problem with the way I've integrated GRAMPS.

When a moderator leaves a note, people who are NOT moderators see that note instead of seeing the original message!

You can imagine the trouble I got into with the other administrators and moderators over this.

I'm using 3.07, by the way.

When I hover over the thread's link in the forum, the proper alt text shows up on the link, also, when I go to edit the message to fix it, the original text shows up, not the mod-note text.
If I resave the note after this, it looks fine and shows the moderator note as it's supposed to.

Is anyone else having this problem?

- Sid