Chat Modifications - Envolve Chat Integration Module

About the Envolve Chat Plugin
This module will connect your vBulletin forum to Envolve chat. Envolve is a chat toolbar similar to Facebook's chat bar that allows your users to have group and one-on-one chats with each other while browsing your forums.

This mod requires an API key from Envolve in order to function. Visit http://www.envolve.com to get one. A free version is available that provides a full feature set for up to 25 concurrent users. Higher numbers of chatters require a paid account.

This mod integrates your forum's account system with Envolve so that when users are logged into your vBulletin site it also logs them into the chat. In addition, it integrates your profile pictures / avatars and profile information. With the 2.0 release of the mod, other users can now view your profile information and get a link to your profile simply by placing their mouse over your name.

The Envolve chat system is a rich solution for community chat. Some of its features include group chat (both public and private), one-on-one chat, the ability to pop chats out into their own windows, moderation controls (boot / block / ban / timed ban), chat message translation, resizable chat windows, chat sharing, and drag-and-drop chat invitations. As a hosted solution, all chat traffic is handled by Envolve's servers and will not place any additional load on your server.

Installation:
Detailed installation instructions can be found here:
https://www.envolve.com/docs/vbulletin-chat-plugin.html. They are also provided in the Readme.txt file.
You can see and try out the chat at http://www.envolve.com.

This version of the mod will work for both vBulletin 4.x and vBulletin 3.8.x.

Screenshots:
Here the "People List" can be seen open in the lower right hand corner of the page. This shows all users who are currently viewing the forum. This site owner has chosen to only allow logged-in users to chat.


Here a public group chat has been opened, and the user has moused-over another user to see his profile information.


Here a user is creating a new group chat that will be shown to the other users on the site. He has also "popped-out" the "General" chat into its own window.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by sailnet

this may have been answered already - Like this and would signup for the pro plan but I'd like to try it out first just for my moderators. if there a way to expose the chat toolbar just for a certain group...i.e. my moderators?

thanks

There is an option, Restricted Usergroups, where you can block access to everyone but mods if you want.

[sailnet]

Originally Posted by cigrafix

Can you make it so we can choose usergrounps who can use the chat???

yes

[sailnet]

We just installed this mod and signed up for a paid account on envolve.

we have a few requests that we think are important.

1) is there any way to reduce the font size? - the font sizes you guys use are bigger than we'd like and we'd like to make the fonts smaller.
2) is there anyway to restrict our forum members from creating open chat rooms. we really only want the general members to chat with each other and we'd like to restrict the creation of general chat rooms to admins & moderators.

can these be done?

both items are very important to us.

[andrew.lee]

Thanks for signing up Sailnet! Happy to answer questions.

In regards to the fonts, you can have some limited control over font selection from our "Skinning" panel on our backend (http://www.envolve.com/admin). Font size is currently not an option, though we are intending to make this much more flexible in the future.

You can definitely disallow the creation of new chats by general members. This option, and many other options, are available from the Options tab on our backend (http://www.envolve.com/admin)

Hope that helps!

[Lee G]

Nice feature being able to turn it on and off, great little chat add on :up:

[Lee G]

For some reason, the only part on my forums this does not show is the forum index page
And the only person that can see it is me
Logged in from two accounts and it only shows on my admin account
For some reason it does not show on the normal users accounts

[Lee G]

Further testing with other skins on my forum and it looks like it dont add some code to my default skin. All the other skins work fine apart from the default one

[Lee G]

Looks like the skin I use as default is missing a hook in the footer

All I need is the code to add to the footer template

[Lee G]

Been through and sorted the code now.
It was the way completevb had coded the footer on the orange style.
Makes a change to be putting things right in one of their skins
The only place I cant get it to show, even on an untweaked default style is the forum index page page

[EddyMaxx]

Works on every page except the forumhome. Not sure why?

My members like it. I'm just trying to figure out why its not displaying on the home page. Even for a default theme. Maybe a plugin interfering?