New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB4)

Advanced @User Tagging: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.

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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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 NoMatt3r

Hello.

Just installed this mod and whenever i click any buttons (http://puu.sh/kln9R/060a1be59a.png), it wants me to put in my password (http://puu.sh/klnbH/3f4c46e628.png). But does not accept any. Search wasn't able to help me, am i truly the only one with this problem?

Regards!

This means your forum is infected with a PHP Shell, I suggest you contact a security expert to help you clean your forum.


Fillip

[soccerman2015]

How do i find that top stats page? Where is that.

Admin panel DBtech user tagging settings:

Enable Statistics Page

With this setting you can control whether the "Top Tags / Tagged / Mentions / Mentioned" page should be available.

[jimnyc]

Just installed. The footer info, for whatever reason, is all the way to the left, and brought the vB footer with it. Is there a way to center this addon?

[DragonByte Tech]

Try it in a default (unmodified) skin, as this doesn't happen in the default skin. It sounds like an incompatibility with your customised skin.

Fillip

[jimnyc]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Try it in a default (unmodified) skin, as this doesn't happen in the default skin. It sounds like an incompatibility with your customised skin.


Fillip

Awesome, that was it, it lines up perfectly in my default style. If I want to figure out how to center it properly (dbtech copyright), where would I go? I tried wrapping center tags in the footer template for my style, but no luck. Additionally, my footer and default footer are the same, leading me to believe the copyright stuff on mine off to the left is stored elsewhere?

Thanks much!!

-Jim

[DragonByte Tech]

My guess is it's some surrounding HTML or CSS class that does it. If you use the F12 developer tools to inspect the CSS differences, that may give you an indication.

Fillip

[spillage]

I just noticed an occurrence of a miss identified member, using @member tagging.
The tag was @bricknell, but the mod tagged @Bricknell, tagging the member name "Bri", not "bricknell".

Any thoughts on why this occurred?

Thanks,

[Alan_SP]

Well, sometimes I had problems with some characters, they look the same, but system (vB and/or) AUT sees them differently. If I copied name, it works, but if I type user name with such characters on my keyboard, it doesn't work.

So, for the start, try to c&p name and see what happens. AUT is made so it looks for longest possible name, not shortest. So, @12345 would always be selected, even if there is user with name 123.

[spillage]

I'm suspicious of it being the capitalization of the "B" causing the problem.
Whilst typed in all lowercase, it is capitalized when posted.
The intended UN is lowercase so "Bri" is then the longest correct match with the uppercase "B" is in place.

So the question is now what is capitalizing the entry?

[Alan_SP]

AUT automatically writes out name of the user after @ exactly as it is written. On the other hand, when writing user name yourself, you don't need to know exact capitalization, but you need to know exact characters.

For example, if there's user MAX, you can mention him with @max and it will work, but output would look @MAX.