Adv. Editing Options for Mods and Admins

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|| Adv. Editing Options for Mods and Admins
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Co-Author(s) : Xenon
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Jun 01, 2009
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|| Time required to install: ~30 seconds
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

This hack gives your board staff a few advanced post editing options that are available in New Thread, New Post and Edit Post interfaces. Since this is a port of Xenon's Adv. Editing Options for Mods and Admins Hack, credits for the original idea (but not for the port cause it has a lot new features that were not present in the original ) belong to him.

Note that this hack may interfere with other hacks that make use of posting functions. If such problems appear, place the following code in the very beginning of the problematic script:

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define('BYPASS_AEO', true);
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This should eliminate whatever problem appears. If it does not, please feel free to mention it.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 1
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

Basics:

• Post Editing Hierarchy (available to mods, s-mods, admins and s-admins):
  Superadministrators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above), supermoderators (and above), admins (and above), or superadmins only.
  Administrators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above), supermoderators (and above) or admins (and above).
  Supermoderators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above) or supermoderators (and above).
  Moderators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above).
  
  
• Post Author (available to administrators only):
  Administrator can specify a custom author of any post. Guests (non-existing users) can also be specified.
  
  
• Post Date/Time (available to administrators only):
  Administrator can specify a custom date and time for any post.
  
  
• Post IP (available to administrators only):
  Administrator can specify a custom ip address for any post.

Advanced:

• A system-wide switch that defines the minimal editlevel required to use the hack.
  It can be found in vBulletin Options -> Advanced Editing Options for Mods and Admins.
  
• A per-user editlevel override, available via admincp user options.
  
• Color-coded listing of users to whom a custom editlevel has been applied.

Note:
To make the subject of the override clear for you, here is an example. If you turn you take a regular registered user and set the override to "Administrator" in that user's profile, then that user will be able to use hack options that would otherwise be available only to administrators.

VERSION HISTORY

2.1.0
[+] The hack is now compatible with vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x.
[+] Eliminated all template edits. The difference in template edits between different vBulletin versions is handled automatically.
[+] Added support for attachments for posts with custom user setting. These attachments are now saved, and their ownership is set to whatever custom user is specified.
[+] When a post is submitted with a custom user setting, that user's activity dates are updated if they are older than the post's date. The dates of the user's activities are never set to the future. If a new post is made with a date in the future, the user's activity dates are set to present time.
[+] When a post is submitted with a custom dateline, last post information in forum and thread is now rebuilt properly.
[+] If a post is submitted with a custom dateline, the thread's firstpostid and creation date are now set to match whatever posts is now the first one in the thread.
[+] In the event that you have installed "vS-Hide Hack Resurrection," and you are changing the ownership of a post that has been thanked, the ownership of thanks is updated automatically, and so are the users' thanked counts.
[+] Removed a lot of redundant code, so the hack should now work faster than it did before.

2.0.2
[+] The hack is now officially compatible with vBulletin 3.6.
[+] Added a workaround for hacks that use new post functions. See description for details.
[+] Unlike before, adv_editform form elements now use vbulletin styles.

2.0.1
[F] Removed extra queries from showthread and showpost.
[F] "adv_editform" is now cached.

2.0.0
[+] A "superadministrator" editlevel.
[+] A system-wide switch that defines the minimal usergroup required to use the hack.
[+] A user-level override of system permissions that defines the editlevel associated with any particular user.
[+] A listing of users for whom an override was defined (with color key). Located under "Users" in the control panel navigation menu.

1.0.2
[+] When you make a post, you have a new checkbox available. That checkbox is off by default, and it allows you to choose whether to use the custom dateline in your post.

1.0.1
[F] Lastposters were not updated on newthread and newreply when replied by admin.

1.0.0
First Release

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[D.Ilyin]

Psionic Vision installed
btw how can i restrict acces to this form to moders and groups who have rights to edit post of others peoples?
May be it's future request?
And another sugestion
на дефолтном скине все нормально но если скин не дефолтный то общий вид полей ввода отличается..... Вобщем то мелочь но не приятно

[akanevsky]

Читать умеешь?

Post Editing Hierarchy (available to mods, s-mods and admins):
Administrators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above), supermoderators (and above) or admins only.
Supermoderators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above) or supermoderators (and above).
Moderators: Can restrict editing to moderators (and above) only.
Post Author (available to admins only):
An administrator can specify a custom post author (it can even be a non-existent user, or in other words - a guest).
Post Date/Time (available to admins only):
An administrator can specify a custom date and time for the post.
Post IP (available to admins only):
An administrator can specify a custom IP for the post.

[D.Ilyin]

хм.... но ведь это можно только для конкретного поста или я ошибаюсь?
Хотелось бы дать определенным группам права допустим на изменение автора темы.
Например: админы\супермоды могут менять все
Модераторы: авторов и дату.
Т.е. чтобы устанавливать данные права вручную для групп.
Я это имел ввиду.
Сори что ввел в заблуждение.

[Snake]

What the hell...

[akanevsky]

Nothing, calm down
The guy just gave me some feature suggestion in Russian. That's all.
I am not accepting that suggestion though.

[theArchitect]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Nothing, calm down
The guy just gave me some feature suggestion in Russian. That's all.
I am not accepting that suggestion though.

I kind of see where he is coming from.

I trust my mods and am happy for them to have full editing capabilities, but I also like the Post Edit Hierarchy. So for me I would like to see that incorporated in this hack so a SuperMod can't edit an admins post by default.

But I agree that it is not necessary to have different permissions for different staff ranks (unless I misunderstood his comments, which is possible as my Russian is almost non-existant).

[akanevsky]

But I agree that it is not necessary to have different permissions for different staff ranks (unless I misunderstood his comments, which is possible as my Russian is almost non-existant).

You understood it correctly

I trust my mods and am happy for them to have full editing capabilities, but I also like the Post Edit Hierarchy. So for me I would like to see that incorporated in this hack so a SuperMod can't edit an admins post by default.

I would also like Post Editing Hierarchy be integrated into this, but for that I need Xenon's permission. Which, he won't give

[Boofo]

Anthony, would there be a way to allow only SuperAdmins access to be able to use this? That would calm the fears of the member that posted he didn't really trust his other Admins if someone was out of town or whatever.

I could use this if that was possible.

[akanevsky]

Yes, it is possible.
However, I need you to specify, whether you want to let only superadmins use the hack,
or you want to let only superadmins have the extra features of the hack, having regular admins as only mod/smod rights?

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Yes, it is possible.
However, I need you to specify, whether you want to let only superadmins use the hack,
or you want to let only superadmins have the extra features of the hack, having regular admins as only mod/smod rights?

I would like the option of ONLY allowing SuperAdmins use this hack and then be able to allow Admins and on down like you have it now. Like you go from Mod to SuperMod to Admin for permissions. I want to take it one step higher to include SuperAdmin instead of stopping at Admins. Does that make any sense at all? Sorry if it is confusing.

What would you propose as the ideal solution?