End-User Options - Panic Button - Postbit

Please click Mark as Installed if you are using this hack.


What Does This Hack Do?[hr]hr[/hr]
This is an update to my 3.7.x version of this 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 of the postbit in each post, so your members can quickly click themselves to the safety of legitimate url if the boss turns up, while your members are at work.

I have created a custom button for this hack, you can use another button if you like, just remember to rename it panic.gif. You can have a different button for each style, as long as each one is named panic.gif.

NOTE: Any Panic Button you see in a thread is tied to your profile, even if it is in someone else's postbit (to prove it, disable the Panic Button in the your UserCP)

This hack was created because of a requested here.

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]hr[/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]hr[/hr]
This hack can be used with vBulletin versions 3.6.0 - 3.8.8.

For the v4.0.x version of this hack - check here.


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


Install/Uninstall Instructions[hr]hr[/hr]
The Panic Button Installation Instructions 3.8.xxx.pdf instructions file is included in attached .zip (includes instructions and pictures)


Version History[hr]hr[/hr]
v3.8.002 - Friday 27th March 2009
-- Fixed: Uncached Template
-- Added: Uninstall Instructions

v3.8.001 - Friday 9th January 2009
-- Initial Release


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


Show Your Appreciation [hr]hr[/hr]
Although not required, if you have enjoyed the benefits of this hack, and would like show your appreciation for my efforts, then please feel free to click on the Support Developer link and donate any amount you feel is appropriate.

[Mosh]

The vBulletin v4.0.x version of this hack is available here.

[Mosh]

Hi all,

It is with regret that after over 4 years (and thousands of hours) spent providing free support for my free hacks released here, as of today I will no longer be able to provide support for free.

This is due to being unemployed for a while, being strapped for cash and unable to rely on the virtually non-existant donations from here to help to pay the bills or put food on the table for my family. I am now providing all support for my free hacks released here over at Wolfshead Solutions via an annual support subscription (for a small fee).

It does not mean I will be no longer release free hacks, I will, but I will just no longer be supporting them for free.

My free hacks have and always will remain free to download and use. And so will updates/bug fixes.

I will be releasing more free hacks, but if you require any support at all for those free hacks, you will need to purchase an annual support subscription over at Wolfshead Solutions to receive support.

I am really sorry I have to do this, but revenue generated by my programming gigs are now my only source of income, and I can no longer afford the luxury of providing free support here, when that time can be spent creating new commerial products, doing paid work requests or providing paid support to pay the bills.

Thank you for the understanding.

Regards,

Mosh.

[ppatil007]

I need help with 2 issues
1) the radio button by default is "no" and that makes none of my new members even bother to change the default button to yes to activate the feature , please let me know who to make the default as yes
2) how does the user edit the hype link of the website ? after he has created the account
i tried user cp i dont find any place for the panic button feature

help will be much appreciated please not i am no code so please be as details as viable

[hardboiled]

Installed, LOVE this addition. Great job.

[vijayninel]

Thanks. Installed.

[Mosh]

Hi all,

I have now released my Panic Button - Global hack for vBulletin 3.8.x at Wolfshead Solutions, and is now available to download for all vBulletin.org Hacks Support subscribers.

This hack will be released here at vBulletin.org on Saturday 20th March 2010.

Panic Button - Global is a variation to this hack (which only displays the Panic Button in the postbit).

Panic Button - Global gives your members their own vBulletin Boss Key (i.e. Panic button), which when enabled is displayed at the bottom right of every page including the CMS, blog and your own custom pages (as long as the headinclude 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 will always float at the bottom right, even when you scroll down the page.

Panic Button - Global has been tested on Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4.0.249.89, Internet Explorer 8.0.7600.16385, Safari 4.04 and Opera 10.50. This should work with most other browsers and versions, but is not guaranteed, as the positioning is controlled by CSS.

Panic Button - Global 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.

Panic Button - Global is installed at Wolfshead Solutions. To see a demonstration of this hack in action, all you need to do is be registered at Wolfshead Solutionsand logged in, then click on Settings in the header, then click General Settings on the left. At the bottom are the settings to turn this hack on. I know my forum is vBulletin 4.0.x but it shows what the panic button will look like (looks the same regardless of version).

Regards,

Mosh Shigdar, Wolfshead Solutions.

[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.