New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB3)

Advanced @User Tagging Mod: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.
This version introduces several major new features that users have requested, and some others we were unable to fit in v1.0.

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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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Translations available @ [url="http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forums/91-Translations[/URL]
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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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

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by SighK

I had an idea. Would it be possible for the script to automatically Mention a user when someone quotes their post?

Example of a normal quote <quote=Username;131213>

Would it be possible to somehow make it <quote=@Username;131213> without breaking the Quote box?

Thanks!

That's a good idea, thanks
I've posted it on our forums, it'll be taken into consideration for future versions ^^


Fillip

[MjrNuT]

Thanks for the reply Dbyte.

I have disabled the Stats page from the ACP settings, however, the page still shows via Community Drop down.....?

Can you reproduce this?

[DragonByte Tech]

Yeah, I'll fix it for the next version
For now, you can manually disable the "Navbar Hook" template.


Fillip

[kimof911]

i am having a problem...

well, when i tag someone...he is just notified with links to his profile...and this is what in his profile



01:28 AM - out line mentioned kimof911 in post test
test @kimof911:





that is it....no link to the post nor the topic...just a a strande code test


so what is the problem...where is the topic or post link so that i can open the topic ??

[kimof911]

well....this is not shown like it is shown in my forum...

this is the code

[post=83396]test[/post]
test @kimof911:

[DragonByte Tech]

I don't understand the question, sorry
The "test" in your example is the link to the post. This is how it's intended to look and work.


Fillip

[kimof911]

solved....it was bbcode disabled in the profile page....thanks Fillip for the best mod i have ever seen really since i used vB 3.5.0

nominated

[DragonByte Tech]

Ooh I see, thanks for letting me know


Fillip

[Taurus1]

And once again you guys rock!! All errors are sorted out and it is working perfectly!

Man, I just love your mods!!

[Shai Gar]

Originally Posted by M.Kay

Hii
when I try to approve a post. I select the post and click on "approve post(s)". the inlinemode.php loads and come back to the thread. BUT the post isn't approved.

i also have this problem

i've tried it by disabling every other mod and loaded the default skin and still have the same approve/unapprove post problem as M.Kay.

approve/unapprove posts works normally if i disabled all plugins, and also if i have all the mods enabled except for the @user tagging.

i also noticed that while the post are being unapproved as you can approve them via the admin control panel(just not the inline way as M.Kay mentions) the little man icon that usually shows when a post is unapproved isn't being shown.