Major Additions - Product Review Forums ? Research, Review & Compare Items

Version 1.4.0 has been released to remove the giftery / list it integration of the addon now that service has been discontinued. No upgrade is needed though there have been a few other bug changes since 1.3.5.

Finding Feedback Can be Like a Needle in a Haystack

The more your forum grows, the more of a challenge it becomes to sort through the history and get the full story.

Product Review Forums Brings Structure to the Chaos

As a full-featured product management addon, PRF sits on top of your forum allowing you to create defined products which, unlike individual posts, stay relevant over time. Each comment, review and even product updates filter back into this one spot allowing for a quick and comprehensive overview while the individual discussions rage on as always.

Here's just a few of the many features you'll find in PRF:

• Bring structure to products with established pages & reviews
• Reduce the number of repetitive posts from members looking up the same info
• Increase your traffic with content-rich, seo friendly, product listings
• Drive revenue by adding your own affiliate links to product listings
• Increase the activity stream's value with review integration
  
• Engage visitors with integrated wishlists from Giftery.me

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Installation is not upload & go... individualized settings are required. Read the install file.

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Enabling Product Forums: To show product details and ratings, each product-forum must be enabled in the forum manager.

Adding Products: You may upload products one at a time through the admin [includes an image uploader using GD] or you can bulk import through XML. You can also enable users to add moderated products through a global and usergroup option.

Product Review Index: To access your forum's product overview go to www.yoursite.com/productforums.php - You may want to add a link to this to your navbar or as a tab.

Customization: This addon is made to be customized. To change the color schema see clientscript/vbulletin_css or dive right on in to the templates and phrases.

Powered by Giftery.me: This mod is maintained includes two integrations you should know about. Both can be controlled through the mod options.

[imported_dfmafia]

makes sense now. working now. i didnt have my product display forum enabled for the review system. all good now.

thanks again ted!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by imported_df+++++

makes sense now. working now. i didnt have my product display forum enabled for the review system. all good now.

thanks again ted!

If you had just looked at the whiteboard in the conference room it's all mapped out and explained with flawless logic. Except I suppose you can't quite see that

Glad it's working out. Still digging into prefixes however...

[zakonline]

Excellent Mod, Installed and using it Thanks a lot. Just a small question how do i allow Registered users to Add the Product?

[imported_dfmafia]

Originally Posted by zakonline

Excellent Mod, Installed and using it Thanks a lot. Just a small question how do i allow Registered users to Add the Product?

Usergroup permissions. about 1/3 from the bottom of the option list

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by zakonline

Excellent Mod, Installed and using it Thanks a lot. Just a small question how do i allow Registered users to Add the Product?

Looks like I got beat to the answer but please be sure to review the install guide if you have not done so already. I know it's long but there's a few critical settings required to actually make this work.

[mickknutson]

Review item categories?

Is it possible to create separate categories such as:

Product Reviews
|--> Parachute gear
|--> Rock climbing gear
|--> Surfing gear

This way I can have some sort of organization...?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mickknutson

Review item categories?

Is it possible to create separate categories such as:

Product Reviews
|--> Parachute gear
|--> Rock climbing gear
|--> Surfing gear

This way I can have some sort of organization...?

Sounds like I need to clean up the introduction a bit... Let's try this:

PRF has two elements: products and reviews. Products are the master to which reviews are made, thus there needs to be a product before there can be a review.

You can structure product forums literally however you want with 3 even levels
- Gear 1
- Gear 2
- Gear 3

Or you could nest levels to be even more specific

- Gear 1
--- Gear 1 subset a
--- Gear 1 subset b
- Gear 2
- Gear 3
--- Gear 3 subset a

Reviews will always be appended to product threads as posts plus you can optionally elect to have them create a new thread to just one forum.

Does that make sense? Does it accomplish your goal?

p.s. I'm an avid climber, diver, etc so if that's a real example shoot me over your forum url, I'd love to check it out.

[angeljs]

Please can you tell me where to look to change the product image size in the thread listing page in the forums?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by angeljs

Please can you tell me where to look to change the product image size in the thread listing page in the forums?

Are you using image uploads or external urls?

[Kirk Fitzgerald]

Hey Ted,

can you tell me how to fix this problem please chap.

In the Products listings content that got imported through xml's all of the ' have been replaced with this ?€™.

See here: http://www.pipesmokerscubby.com/show...r-Smoking-Pipe