New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3 (vB5) [AJAX]

What it is: Advanced Thanks/Like mod is designed to cut down on spam and increase useful content in your forum by using a peer encouragement system - users thank/like each others posts, which can encourage the thanked person to post more great content.

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Translations available @ our forum.

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

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Feature List: Lite

Postbit stats: Shows how many button clicks a person has given, received etc in the postbit. Admins can determine what statistics can show in the postbit to control sizes etc.

Admin Permissions: Control things such as who can click buttons, require button clicks, what shows in postbit, what options can run concurrently, per forum permisions etc.

Notifications: Receive alerts when a member clicked on one of the buttons for one of your posts.

Feature List: Pro

Infinite Buttons: Ability to create new buttons to press! No longer do you need to be limited by Thanks / Like / Dislike.

User Postbit Config: Lets users decide what postbit stats they want to see.

Additional permissions: Un-click a button. Control how many stats show on the statistics page, set permissions per subforum.

Buttons in First Post Only: This allows you to only make the first post thankable. If you forum is based around news, releases or anything similar this will allow your users to easily see the quality of the thread in question.

Button Click Anonymity: This feature will be extremely helpful to forums who like the idea of a "dislike" button, but don't like the drama it brings. Now you can set certain buttons to be anonymous - no one will see who clicked.

Missing Feature List: Lite

Require a Button Click: Allows you to hide the content of a post, or hie an attachment, until the person clicks a button on the post.

Statistics: Shows the top 5 people for; Giving / Receiving button clicks.

Import Thanks: Import script to import "thanks" from Abe's [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack on vBulletin.org. It will work with both vB3 and vB4 versions of this mod.

Missing Feature List: Pro

Auto Collapse Posts: Collapses a post so it doesnt show up by using a formulae for button clicks of your choosing.

Post Colour Thresholds: Ever wanted an easy way for members to tell if a post is helpful or trash? Colour thresholds let you change the colour of posts depending on how many clicks of a button they receive. Members can now see at a glance whether or not a post is helpful, interesting or pointless.


Complete Feature List
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Thanks / Like / Dislike Buttons

• Fully integrated into the vBulletin 5 postbit footer
• Same style / functionality as the vBulletin Reputation / "Like" controls
• On-demand list of people who clicked a certain button
• Fully AJAX driven

Button Control

• Edit name and action text
• Turn off "Given" stats
• Turn off "Received" stats
• Ability to turn off buttons per Category

Notifications

• Forum notification
• Notifications contain direct link to the post in question

Maintenance

• Cleanup, removes any thanks / likes / dislikes from posts that no longer exists
• Recalculate, recalculates how many thanks / likes / dislikes a user should have
• Rebuild Statistics, ensures the Statistics table is correctly populated and its values are correct.

Search

• Filter entries by username, button, start date, end date
• Change number of entries per page
• Change sort order

Repair Cache

• Ensures the button / page router caches are updated

Front-End

• Profile tabs integration

Pro

UserCP Settings

• Hide postbit items per-button
• Turn off notifications

Button Control

• Create unlimited buttons to click
• Minimum posts required to click a button
• Per-usergroup setting to become immune to clicks of a button
• Per-usergroup setting whether who clicked a button is displayed
• Per-usergroup setting to allow disabling clicks of a specific button for a post
• Per-usergroup setting to allow removing a click of a button
• Limit button clicks per day
• Per-forum ability to set each button to only display in the first post
• Per-forum toggle of what buttons are enabled
• Turn off "Given" and "Received stats on a per-button basis

Search

• Ability to delete entries found in the Search interface
• Change number of entries per page
• Change sort order

Notifications

• Email notification, respects the receiving user's email settings
• Can be disabled on a per-button basis

Missing Feature List
Lite

• Front-End
  • Require button clicks to see content (whole post is hidden)
  • Require button clicks to see attachments
  • Each button can be set as "Default" for Attachments and Content. When posting via Quick Reply, the default button(s) will be set as Required
  • Top 5 Given / Received statistics for each button
  • Widget for recent Button Clicks
  • Hottest Threads / Posts page showing most clicked posts and threads

Pro

• Front-End
  • "Entry List" page; a browseable list of all button clicks
  • Hottest Threads / Posts has a date range filter
• AdminCP
  • Set more / less than 5 for the Given / Received statistics
  • Ability to auto-collapse posts using provided formula or input for your own using your custom buttons
  • Ability to create Post Colour Thresholds to highlight posts in different colours
  • (vB4) Choose what portions of the postbit should be coloured via the post colour thresholds.
  • Individual users now be excluded from using the mod

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

I put out a hotfix that should resolve ACP issues.

Fillip

[shimei]

Hello Fillip,

A couple of things. Throughout the line of dragonbyte's products, when cache template as files is enabled, multiple errors display.

Secondly, with this specific mod that I just tried to install, the post bit is too large to fit in its area. Is there a way to turn off the additional post bit information? I take it this is only a pro option?

[DragonByte Tech]

You can edit each button and turn off the Given and Received stats in postbit - once that has been done for every button, the menu should disappear.

Fillip

[mdawg]

I installed but disabled it for now. Running vb 5.2.1 None of the buttons work, although they do appear, and this is I assume because no buttons are enabled in the "DBTech - Post Thanks" control panel. When I go in to edit to make the buttons work for selected (or any, or all) user groups, when I go to save the settings, after a while I just get the Invalid Page URL error and nothing is saved, so the mod doesn't work at all for me.

Same deal with your other mod vbshout - unable to edit any control panel settings, and when try to save, get the invalid page URL error.

[shimei]

Originally Posted by mdawg

I installed but disabled it for now. Running vb 5.2.1 None of the buttons work, although they do appear, and this is I assume because no buttons are enabled in the "DBTech - Post Thanks" control panel. When I go in to edit to make the buttons work for selected (or any, or all) user groups, when I go to save the settings, after a while I just get the Invalid Page URL error and nothing is saved, so the mod doesn't work at all for me.

Same deal with your other mod vbshout - unable to edit any control panel settings, and when try to save, get the invalid page URL error.

Same here mdawg,

I disabled it, as many errors were showing up. Some of the errors resulted from having enabled cache in styles, when cached as files, multiple errors displayed on the webpage. In the Admincp, multiple errors too, like being redirected to the main home page when clicking an admincp option.

[mdawg]

shimei - thanks. But you were able to get this Post Thanks to work at all? because on my 5.2.1 forum I could never even save any settings to activate the buttons in the first place.

[shimei]

Originally Posted by mdawg

shimei - thanks. But you were able to get this Post Thanks to work at all? because on my 5.2.1 forum I could never even save any settings to activate the buttons in the first place.

I didn't even bother to test it. There were too many errors displaying on my front home page, and in the back admincp to even bother.

[MarkFL]

I know these issues can be frustrating, but please bear in mind that this is an extensive product and it will take some time (even for the professionals at DBTech) to iron out the issues related to the latest versions of vB.

From what I have seen, they have always provided top-notch support for their products, and I am certain they are working to resolve any issues reported here.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

I know these issues can be frustrating, but please bear in mind that this is an extensive product and it will take some time (even for the professionals at DBTech) to iron out the issues related to the latest versions of vB.

From what I have seen, they have always provided top-notch support for their products, and I am certain they are working to resolve any issues reported here.

Thanks for the kind works Mark, appreciated

The difficulty in this case lies in the fact that I can't even replicate any of the issues reported, which makes it a wee bit more challenging to resolve.


Fillip

[mrwillt]

Hey guys, Just upgraded our forum to this latest vb5 (o dear) and needed a thanks/like product. This seems perfect and the install goes smoothly, but when I go to edit a button and try and make it "active" I click save, and it just directs off to a page cannot be found page....

So this is from within vb admin, I click edit on "thanks" and click to make it active, click save, and have a page cannot be found page.

Version 5.2.1 - any ideas?