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[DBTech] vBShout v6 (vB4) [AJAX] · **Released**: 02-25-2010

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present vBShout v6: The most advanced, Most feature-rich and most professional shoutbox ever.

Uses

vBShout is the ideal way to keep members on your forum while they wait for replies to their posts. It can be used in many ways - as a chat room for members, for staff to discuss issues in realtime, as a live-update feed of new posts and threads, as a way to track member milestones... Best of all, you can have multiple boxes in use for multple purposes!

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Major Lite Features

Advanced Shout Control: You have the ability to post shouts, edit your shouts, PM shouts to other users, Ignore other users, insert /Me commands, insert smilies, Bbcode, change font, text colour etc.

Advanced Staff Control: Give your staff members customised permissions to allow them to do certain actions, on all or selected instances and chat rooms. Permissions include: Silencing users, banning users, editing user shouts, Creating/Editing "Sticky Notices", Pruning shouts and much more.

Resource Optimisation: vBShout implements an Advanced Optimisation Protocol to save your forum resources. Enabling this will further reduce the amount of resources consumed by the shoutbox. AOP was originally featured in Inferno vBShout, and DBTech vBShout takes it to the next level by ensuring that all your chats are always up-to-date without taking up needless amount of resources.

Customisable New Post / Thread Notifications: Allows you to make the shoutbox post when a new thread is created, or a new post is made. You can make this happen with all threads (Which will take user permissions into account) or only threads/posts from certain forums.

Shoutbox Tabs: New PM's or User Chat Rooms create Tabs. Tabs will highlight to let you know something new has happened, and you can even set them to make sounds to alert you.

Active Users Shout-bit: Shows the users active in the tab/instance you are, with the option to view everyone who can enter/exit the room at will (and thus see any shouts posted) in a pop-up to save resources. Perfect for seeing what's going on and who's around at a glance.

Context Menus: Many places now make use of context menus ? less having to remember /commands, one click access to the most useful and commonly used functions, and the ability for users to access their shoutbox settings directly from the shoutbox itself.

Custom Chat Rooms: Your users can now set up their own Chat-Tabs, where they get to set who can come and chat. Perfect for clubs, guilds etc. Admins can also create permanent Chat rooms for specific usergroups etc. ? perfect for a staff only chat room for instance, or to reward loyal members!

Custom Shoutbox Instances: Ever wanted a separate shoutbox just for your admin forum? Got a part of your board only for VIP members? Now you can set a shoutbox specific to those areas.

Shoutbox Sounds: You asked for it, we delivered. Customisable sounds now available on receiving shouts, Invites, PM's and more. (Requires QuickTime Plugin)

Archive: View all the shouts posted since the last pruning, Also shows you the top X shouters, a variety of interesting and useful shoutbox statistics, and allows you to search previous shouts.

Logging: Worried about staff members pruning the shoutbox to cover their tracks? Don't worry, with our advanced logging options, you can make sure a hard copy is kept of every action taken.

Revamped Thread / Reply Notices: Do you have a massive board with 100+ forums? With the revamped New Thread / Reply Notices page, you can edit exactly what forums show what notices in what instance all from one page.

Downloadable Shoutbox Archives: You and your shoutbox admins can download a complete dump of the Shoutbox' archive for all instances. With 3 supported formats (tab-delimited CSV, XML and TXT), there's something for everyone whether your purpose is review or programming.

Easy Shoutbox Notice Editing: You and usergroups with the "Can Set Sticky" permission can now edit the notice by double-clicking the Sticky in the shoutbox. Quickly fix typos or rapidly update with new turn of events, editing it is never more than two clicks away.

Shoutbox Report System: Members can now report offensive shouts by using the shout context menu. When a report has been submitted, those with the "Can Moderate Chat" permission will see how many reports need their attention via a new chat tab in the Shoutbox.

Easy User Infractions: The context menu also adds a quick link to infract users, for those who can access vBulletin's infraction system. This lets you quickly punish members who are overstepping your bounds.

Blog Integration: Give blogs a more prominent place on your forum by having the Shoutbox post notifications when someone posts a new blog or comments on a blog.

Professional Only benefits:

Personal User Shoutbox Options: Integrated with User CP, User gets to decide which things show on their shoutbox, PM's, notifications etc. Even what editor options show up for them. They also get to decide where their text input area goes for TOTAL customisation.

Ignore List: Allows users to keep track of who they are ignoring, and control this option via a list.

Custom Commands: Lets you and your users create their own commands for use. For example, create pre-set warning comments ? Staff member types /firstwarning, Text appears saying "This is your first warning for breaking the shoutbox rules. You can view these rules at [link] If you have a question about this warning, please PM myself. Thanks.

Extra Tab Options: The ability to set separate tabs for system notifications and notices is available in the PRO version, fantastic for keeping your chat tab uncluttered.

Detach Shoutbox: Lets you and your users have the shoutbox open in a seperate browser window/tab for easier use etc.

Additional Moderation Commands: The ability to add/edit the sticky notice through the shoutbox.

Advanced Archive Searching: Ability to search by any combination of username, Last X Hours, Start/End date, as well as keyword. Filter searches, sort by criteria etc.

Extended Instance Options: Allows you to have separate notices per instance, set usergroup settings for individual instances, and even set unique staff permissions for each individual instance.

Expanded Context Menus: Lets your member/staff use the context menu to add/update the sticky note, Ban and Unban users, Ignore/Unignore users and prune individual user shouts.

Extra User Chat Room Moderation: Shows a page displaying every use-created chat room, who made it, how many active members/total members it has etc, and options to close it etc.

Complete Feature List
Lite

Shoutbox
- Post Shouts
- Edit / Delete Shouts
- Shouts played using HTML5 <audio> tags
- PM other users
  - PM tabs for convo between two users
- View Active Users
  - Separate context-aware block that shows the people active in your specific tab.
Smilies
- Integrates with vBulletin smilie popup for easy overview of all available smilies.
Update text styles
- Bold
- Italic
- Underline
- Font
- Colour
Slash commands
- Built-in commands in a drop-down list
- /banlist for a list of all users banned from the shoutbox
Context menu for available actions
- View Profile
- Send PM
Create chat room
- Invite / Manage users that can access this chat room
- Inviting an user sends them a pop-up asking them to join the room.
Tabs
- Highlights when you're not viewing them but they have new messages.
- Chat Rooms get tabs added as you join them.
Logging
- Default logging logs all administrative slash commands.
Archive
- View list of all Shouts in the system
- Top X Shouters
- Shoutbox Statistics
- Search Archive
  - Search by
    - Phrase
AdminCP
- Instance Manager
  - Different instances on different pages
- Chat Room Manager
  - Assign usergroups to chat rooms
- Edit Settings
  - Which commands to log
  - Log level
  - Shouts to display
  - Shouts to display (Archive)
  - Shoutbox Height
  - Shout display order
  - Shoutbox Refresh Rate
  - Smilies on / off
  - PMs on / off
  - Allowed BBCode controls
  - Enabled Editor Tools
  - Maximum [SIZE]
  - Max characters per shout
  - Max images per shout
  - Archive "Top X Shouters" count
  - Active Users block on/off
  - Auto-Delete Shouts
  - Max chat rooms per user
  - Global sound switch
  - Play sounds while idle
  - Per-Usergroup display of moderator actions (like pruning shouts)
  - Ability to disable the "Chat Access" list
  - Project Tools integration
  - Ability to disable Blog notifications
  - Alternating Shout Background Colours
  - Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
    - Every X Posts
    - Every X Threads
    - Every X Members
- Show command log
- Show banned users
- Show shout log
- Maintenance
  - Reset all style customisations
- Ban / Silence management in Edit User

Shoutbox Sessions

Shoutbox activity is tracked separate from users' shouts
Only shows people who perform an action as active
"Active Indicator" on the toolbar shows whether the user is active in the SB or not
Doesn't flag users generating automatic notices as active

Anonym.To Integration

Ability to anonymise any URL entered in the Shoutbox per-instance with Anonym.to
Works with BBCode URLs
Displays regular URL while editing shouts

Disallow "ALL CAPS"

Ability to disallow all caps per-instance
Uses vBulletin's "Prevent SHOUTING" setting to de-caps the shout

New Slash Command: /resetshouts

Resets all users' "Lifetime Shouts" counter to how many shouts they currently have in the system
(Pro) /resetshouts user to reset an individual user's "Lifetime Shouts" counter
Great way to put spammers in their place

Context Menu Improvements

Dedicated context menu item for editing shouts (if user has permission to edit that shout)
Dedicated context menu item for deleting shouts (if user has permission to delete that shout)
JavaScript performance for menu closure operations has been improved

"Invisibility" Toggle

Click the activity status icon to toggle invisibility
Uses the status icon from your vBulletin skin
Hides the user from all activity displays in the entire instance
Great for surprising friends with shouts out of the blue!

Pro

Context Menu Options
Moderation actions
- Add / Update Sticky Note
- Ban / Unban users
- Ignore / unignore users
- Prune user's shouts
Slash commands
- /silencelist for a list of all users silenced in the shoutbox
Separate tab for Notifications
- Lets you hide them from the main view but still have them accessible.
Separate tab for System Messages
- Lets you hide them from main view but still have them accessible.
Detach shoutbox
- Shows a dedicated shoutbox browser window.
Shoutbox Options
- Integration with UserCP
  - General Shoutbox Settings
    - Enable / Disable PMs
    - Enable / Disable Notifications
    - Enable / Disable System Messages
    - Override shout styles
    - Sounds on/off
      - Shout
      - Invite
      - PM
    - Hide alternating shoutbox background colours
    - Hide user avatars
  - Display Settings
    - Hide/Display individual Editor settings (Font, text colour etc)
    - Control shout area location
  - Tab Reordering
    - Re-order chat tabs
Custom Commands
- Add / Edit custom commands
Ignore List
- Add / Remove users
High-level logging logs everything
vBActivity & Awards integration (Award, Achievement, Promotion)
Filter archive shouts by chatroom
Create threads from archive shouts
Search Archive
- Search by
  - Username
  - Last X Hours
  - Start Date
  - End Date
- Sort order for search results
- Shouts per page
Filter archive shouts
Edit/Delete shouts in archive
Separate Sticky notices per instance
Separate usergroup permissions per instance
Assign chat room to any / all instance(s)
Shoutbox Refresh Rate
- While idle
PMs on / off
Archive "Top X Shouters" count
Play sounds while idle
Maintenance
- Reset all style customisations
Ban / Silence management in Edit User
Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
- Every X Blogs
- Every X Shouts
- Every X [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like button clicks received
- Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging thread tags received
- Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging quotes received
- Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging mentions received
- Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed created
- Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed completed
Adjust time stamp format
Per-Usergroup "Can PM" permission

(Pro) Global Custom Commands

Create custom commands that anyone can use via the AdminCP
Prevents users from creating commands with the same shortcut
Great for "canned responses"

(Pro) Per-User Shoutbox Toggle

New UserCP option to turn off the entire shoutbox
Hides it completely from all pages

(Pro) Per-Instance Activity Triggers

Choose what actions trigger new activity
- Create Chat
- Delete Shout
- Fetch Sticky
- Join Chat
- Leave Chat
- User Lookup
- Save Sound Settings
- Save Shout Styles
- User Management
- Chat Tab Switching
- Un-idling
- Toggle "Invisible Mode"

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DragonByte Tech · #**1452** 09-06-2011, 10:46 AM

The menu position is determined by YUI, via the following function:

Code:

    this.toggle_menu = function(menuid, uniqueid)
    {
        var divObj = YAHOO.util.Dom.get('menu' + menuid + '_' + this.instanceid);
        var aObj = YAHOO.util.Dom.get('click' + uniqueid + '_' + this.instanceid);
        
        if (!divObj)
        {
            // Just to prevent errors
            return false;
        }
        
        if (divObj.style.display == 'none' && menuid != this.menuid)
        {
            if (this.menuid)
            {
                // Turn off the previous menu
                this.toggle_menu(this.menuid);
            }
            
            // Set the new menu id
            this.menuid = menuid;
            
            // Hack the menu to show            
            divObj.style.display = 'inline';
            divObj.style.position = 'absolute';
            divObj.style.top = (YAHOO.util.Dom.getY(aObj) + parseInt(aObj.offsetHeight)) + 'px';
            divObj.style.left = YAHOO.util.Dom.getX(aObj) + 'px';

            right = (parseInt(divObj.style.left) + divObj.offsetWidth);

            if (right >= YAHOO.util.Dom.getViewportWidth())
            {
                divObj.style.left = (YAHOO.util.Dom.getViewportWidth() - divObj.offsetWidth) + 'px';
            }
        }
        else
        {
            // Hide the open menu
            divObj.style.display = 'none';
            this.menuid = 0;
        }
        
        return false;        
    }

"aObj" is the link a member clicks on. Your custom skin is somehow breaking the YAHOO.util.Dom.getY(), YAHOO.util.Dom.getX() and offsetHeight variables. YUI cannot correctly detect the absolute position of the link object (that opens the menu), whereas it can in skins that are closely based on the default skin.

If you happen to find the solution for this problem, please do post it as a number of other custom skins also suffer from this problem (mostly Skinbox skins).

Fillip

Erica1977 · #**1453** 09-08-2011, 12:02 AM

How do i change the sound for the shout i would like to put my own is there anyway to do this!

DragonByte Tech · #**1454** 09-08-2011, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erica1977

How do i change the sound for the shout i would like to put my own is there anyway to do this!

Drop the sound file in the /dbtech/vbshout/sounds directory.

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v5.4.7
Change: Changed display code to work around display issues with the new update to APTL and other future DBTech mods. Install this update to ensure the Shoutbox doesn't stop displaying when you update other DBTech mods.

Fillip

BaanFarsang · #**1455** 09-08-2011, 12:17 PM

After upload new ver 5.4.7 to host, there are error following

Code:

Erica1977 · #**1456** 09-08-2011, 12:19 PM

Ok ive notice something on my brothers site i was helping him out and his pro i have been looking on how to disable the part where users can go to settings and change stuff i cannot find where to turn that off my brother doesnt want them messing with turning sound on in there settings or font colors etc etc i do know lite they dont have that option in changing there settings so is there a option for pro that i can turn that off for users.

bandare · #**1457** 09-08-2011, 12:22 PM

Probably a stupid question, but how can I select which usergroups can see the shoutbox and which can't? If I go to admin/settings, i see the options box but that basically just gives me the option to turn the box off/on. In a usergroup option, I can only select manager or not. Just wondered where all the general options are please.

DragonByte Tech · #**1458** 09-08-2011, 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BaanFarsang

After upload new ver 5.4.7 to host, there are error following

Code:

Please disable hooks via config.php and then import the XML file.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erica1977

Ok ive notice something on my brothers site i was helping him out and his pro i have been looking on how to disable the part where users can go to settings and change stuff i cannot find where to turn that off my brother doesnt want them messing with turning sound on in there settings or font colors etc etc i do know lite they dont have that option in changing there settings so is there a option for pro that i can turn that off for users.

Please have him post this in the Pro support forum on our site

Fillip

DragonByte Tech · #**1459** 09-08-2011, 12:31 PM

Instance Management -> Edit

Fillip

bandare · #**1460** 09-08-2011, 12:37 PM

thanks for the prompt reply Mr Dragon but where is that?

DragonByte Tech · #**1461** 09-08-2011, 12:41 PM

Under DBTech - vBShout in the AdminCP side menu.

If you don't see it, set yourself to Super Admin in the config.php file

Fillip

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