Add-On Releases - Advanced Report Post Management System

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Distances First Official vBulletin Release!!

THIS PRODUCT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH vBulletin 3.7.x and higher


What does it do?

This is better for forums which get alot of post reports, it allows staff to see the amount of post reports open and lets them review and leave appropiate comments.

Users can see there post reports made and can see the status of the report and the moderator dealing with the report.

Admins / SuperMods / Moderators can see the post reports

*Note Moderators will only see the post reports in the forums they moderate*


Moderators can see who reported the post and the time at which it was reported, and the comment given by the user. There are also links to the post itself, the thread the post is on, the forum the thread is in, the user who posted the post and the user who reported the post.

The user page can be linked anywhere you choose; I have included instructions for linking it on the quicklinks menu.


Moderators can update the status of the report, and add a comment. The user who reported the post can then see these changes reflected in their page - it will show the name of the moderator dealing with the report, the comment (if any) left by the moderator, and the time at which the report was last updated.

When a moderator sets the status of a report to 'closed', it is moved to another page in modcp called 'closed post reports'. Post reports that are in the pending state are still kept in the 'outstanding post reports' page.

See screen shots for more information


Installation

• Unpack the .zip file
• Upload the files in the upload directory to your forum root
• Install the product by uploading the product xml file into the product manager in Admin CP
• Make the two template changes specified in 'template changes.txt'

Upgrading

From v1.0

If you are upgrading from v1.00 please uninstall then install the new one.
Be sure to uninstall the original otherwise you will get 2x everything!

From v1.01 OR HIGHER

Simply upload the plugin and choose to overwrite.




Changes

• 2 php files to upload
• One xml file to upload
• Two templates to change (navbar)
• Installs 3 plugins

Screenshots



User reporting post:





User going onto quick links to open up there post reports:





User viewing the post report they just made, it is still open and not assigned to a moderator:





A moderator can see in the navbar there is one post report:





They click on it and change the status to pending:






The user can now see in there reported posts page its under investigation and has been assigned to a moderator:





The moderator has reviewed the post and now closes the report:






The user can now see the closed report:





Other:


Modcp links:






Admincp links:


Distance (me)
Spleasure (Jorrit) for bug fixing help



Other Notes

• Please note that since i didnt release the original i cannot give support for this modification, however i will help as best as i can
• I have permission to release this port of the original
• FULLY backup your site before installing this modification!! Im not responsible for any loss of data etc if you install this incorrectly or dont backup your database
• Uninstall any previous releases of this hack BEFORE installing this one, failure to do so will result in database errors. *Meaning previous releases, not previous versions of my release*
• This has only been tested on 3.6.4 and 3.6.5, i dont see why this wouldn't work on other versions of vBulletin 3.6.X
• See next post for updates and important notes!!

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Important notice: By default if BOTH

• Post Reporting Discussion Forum
• Post Reporting Email

Are turned off.. the post report system will disable itself. I haven't
figured out a way to get round this yet but this will be updated in v2.10

So for now make sure in: vBulletin Options -> User Infractions & Post Reporting Options

One of these two options are turned on.

Click Install if you like this modifcation



Thanks

Distance

[joe1989]

Some info:

Everything seems to work, as far as the scripting for loading each page. The only thing that doesn't work is the essential task of inserting the report into the table.

I'm guessing this is an easy fix, but I have little experience when it comes to VB coding, so I really don't want to try it, and then have nothing working!

Any experienced coder: all it needs to do is add the post reports into the proper tables! Everything else works!!

[joe1989]

I believe all this needs in order to be compatible is an edit to report.php

i keep looking at it, but i cant figure out what to change... can anyone help out?

Greatly appreciated!!

[EcoCav]

is there an update for 3.8? I would love to use this!

[joe1989]

Not at this time...

Will be updated for compatibility in the [hopefully near] future...

[Pedro!]

Edit:

Thought I'd fixed it but apparently not... just found out that vB 3.7/3.8 reduced reporting for PMs, social group messages, social group pictures, user profile messages, user gallery messages and user gallery pictures. It also throws errors when trynna report/move certain threads. CBA to sort all that out and work out where it's going wrong so I'm gonna set up a /testvb/ forum and try code my own reports system from the ground up. If you PM me I'll tell you when it's done.

[therogueforums]

Thanks! I'll try it out tomorrow, and report back.

[joe1989]

Haven't tried yet... I'm gonna wait a day or two until you finish like you said you would continue working on it...

Edit: There might be a way to reduce the template edits to 1 and the new plugins to 3 so it might be worth waiting a couple of days for me to update so you can reduce overheads.

Thanks for all your help, and I'll hope to see this completed and re-released in the near future!!

[Pedro!]

Sorry, I forgot to take the edit: comment out. I've made the change so that's as streamlined as it's gonna get for now I think.

I e-mailed the author asking him to re-release or let me re-release. If he doesn't get back in a while I might code my own from the ground up and release it because it is a very useful mod imo.

[joe1989]

Awesome. Haven't installed yet, but will be doing that this afternoon as time permits me to do so. If I were you, I would send a PM to the author (Distance) instead of an email... I tried emailing and didn't work - I had better luck with a PM to Distance. He'll get back to you eventually!! He was planning to re-release in the future, but he's currently busy with the real world life, so he just hasn't had time to get to it. But, I'm sure he'll get back to you quickly if you send him a PM about it!!

Thanks again for all your efforts...
Joe

[Pedro!]

Ah yeah, my mistake, I did PM him, that's what I meant, lol.

No worries, glad I could help. I've often had help/fixes from other members for other mods so just glad I can help and give something back myself

Maybe one day you'll fix something and help someone else and the cycle will complete