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]

Just a note for everyone else...

If you've never downloaded and installed this before, you won't be able to import the product through AdminCP until you make one easy change:

Open the xml product in an editor (notepad, etc) and search for "maxversion=" ... it's near the top, in line 10. The default sets the maxversion to 3.6.99 (or close to it). But, the newest vbulletin version is higher than this. So, change that to 3.8.99 (or something higher than your vbulletin version) and save it! Then it will import normally!

[joe1989]

Well I've tried this twice now, and I think there's a mistake somewhere along the line. I did everything listed in Pedro's directions, and I'm still having the same problems encountered before doing anything. Nothing posts to the post reports table. Therefore, I can see all the pages (in CP's, quick links, etc) but nothing writes to the database when I report a post on my forum. And yes, I do have the 'create new thread' option enabled, because the threads are being created like they should...

[Pedro!]

Try it with the e-mail option enabled, I'll see what happens on mine if I disable options in the meantime...

[joe1989]

ok now it works since i've set it to email

however, i do not want it to be email, i want a discussion thread

what can we change so it works that way?

EDIT: I have it set for email and discussion thread, which is acceptable, but I really do not want to leave the email option enabled; I just want the discussion thread if at all possible!

[Pedro!]

Hmmm, yeah, I'll try suss it out...

Edit:

For some reason I no longer seem to be receiving e-mails, I haven't being able to confirm if this is the same for my moderators yet though. You can try and open up the plugin editor for the save reports to database plugin and then paste the following code in there at the start of the Plugin PHP Code box:

PHP Code:

foreach ($mods AS $userid => $moderator)
{
    if (!empty($moderator['email']))
    {
        $moderator['email'] = '';
    }
} 


I think it will work but I am unable to test it at the moment.


Ugh: it looks like Jelsoft have introduced PM reporting with this version. We've also had a couple of problems with merging threads, there seems to be some kind of conflict with. I think I'm just gonna code my own mod from the ground-up because it's hard working with someone else's code and I there's a couple of areas I'd like to improve upon which I just can't do without adding new database tables etc. also there's no way to notify people if I'm just posting here.

[Pedro!]

In relation to this post. I'd advise you uninstall the product.

Edit: argh! wtf! I uninstalled it and still get the error when trynna delete a thread. Good job we move our threads to a 'recycle bin'. Gonna have to work this out though

[joe1989]

OK - I am having the same problems, so I have uninstalled the product fully.

However, Pedro, please do what you said and create a new one from the ground up! I really, really want to see this mod functional!!

Thanks so much!

[EcoCav]

I would love to use this on 3.8!

Let me know when its working guys.

[Pedro!]

Originally Posted by joe1989

OK - I am having the same problems, so I have uninstalled the product fully.

However, Pedro, please do what you said and create a new one from the ground up! I really, really want to see this mod functional!!

Thanks so much!

Uninstalling it should do the trick, I only had thread move/deletion problems cos I accidentally edited the wrong product's plugin when I was farting about trynna find a fix, lol. I've started work on my own now, hopefully it won't take too long, lol.

[Hannan]

Is it works with vb 3.8.1?!
thanks