CommBull (Community Bulletin)

vb3.5 Commbull
vb3.6 Commbull

Note:
The 3.6 version is a commercial product, any queries on it should be submitted to: vb3.6 Support Site

THIS THREAD IS FOR SUPPORT FOR 3.0 VERSIONS ONLY. PLEASE VISIT THE APPROPRIATE FORUMS (links above) FOR THEIR SUPPORT

[valid point]
it's been brought to my attention that not everyone knows what this is ... fair enough: This hack is considered a "weekly newsletter" by the fact that it will email members (only sent by an admin) who have opted to receive it new posts, hot threads, etc ... basically a summary of what has been going on since the last time the newsletter was sent out. However there is a vast number of options, and I won't go into detail of all of them ... you can view the the images that I've attached, but u will only get a full idea by installing it.
I would say that there is 0 risk of this installation doing any damage to your current install as these are the changes that it does (manually and automatically):
- change profile.php and admincp/index.php
- add a couple columns to user table (receivebulletin and receivebulletin_type)
- add some phrases to phrase table (receive_email_from_commbull, type_email_from_commbull, newsletterformat, commbul)
- add a row to datastore table (commbull)
- add some html to nav template for admin side
So, if you are unhappy with the install. you can just ignore that it's there and it'll never cause any problems ... your next upgrade will overwrite any changes to the index and profile pages and the extra columns in the DB won't be an issue

[mods that i've added from vB2 version]
- to change languages, comment/uncomment line 22 and 23 to switch from English to German
- save prefs (option)
- skip to page X in case of mailout freeze
- auto redirect to next page (option)
- adding personalized text to top of newsletter w/out searching through the two text & html fields ... u'll c what i mean :ermm:

[INSTALL]
drop the 3 files into the admincp directory and then go to admincp/commbull.php ... follow the instructions and you are good to go.
If you find that the option isn't showing up on the control panel after the install, then it's because you aren't using the default phrases. Go into phrase manager, search for 'commbull' and update the fields appropriately.

If something goes wrong, don't worry .. it checks for already completed updates to the database to avoid redundancy ... enjoy!!

[docvader]

Installed quite easily. Excellent job to all who contributed.

[docvader]

It's working great. Truly impressive. But, one question, and it really isn't important; I was just curious. I've got five styles on my board, one parent, four children. The email goes out in the parent style, which was my old default style. Is there any way of sending it out using one of the children's styles, which also happens to be my current "default" style???

[CSS59]

installed and I am almost done. but I can't figure this out:

Go into phrase manager, search for 'commbull' and update

What do you mean by update?

I cant see "Send Comm Bull" in my cp

[memobug]

The combull is in the USERS part of AdminCP
The Phrase Manager is a different tool, used to manage phrases, also in AdminCP

Regards,

Matt

[CSS59]

Originally Posted by memobug

The combull is in the USERS part of AdminCP
The Phrase Manager is a different tool, used to manage phrases, also in AdminCP

I understand matt, however, I am having this problem:

Upload admin/index.php and profile.php to your server, then go to your Admin CP and look for the "Send Community Bulletin" option under "Users" If you find that the option isn't showing up on the control panel, then it's because you aren't using the default phrases. Go into phrase manager, search for 'commbull' and update.

I do not see it under USERS so I must go into the phrase manager and update? Im not sure how this update is done?

[memobug]

Well, I did not have that problem (you are expanding the Users block and not just looking beneath it) but if you go into Languages&Phrases under it you will see Search In Phrases and in there you can type in commbull (two mm!), click Phrase Text AND Variable name and see if anything comes up.

For instance, if you click receive_email_from_commbull you should see the phrase "Receive Community Bulletin Newsletter (Approximately 1 per month)" which, by the way is a question someone was asking here. Sometimes if you simply Save it with no changes it will fix up the phrases. I don't know why.

particularly you want to be sure you have this:

Control Panel Global Phrases Containing 'commbull'
Varname $vbphrase[commbull]
Text Send Community Bulletin

Hope that helps. Sorry it is not a problem I had so I am a little amiss as to how to fix it.

Regards,

Matt

[CSS59]

Originally Posted by memobug

. Sometimes if you simply Save it with no changes it will fix up the phrases. I don't know why.

Thank you! I went and edited each one saving w/o changes and now it works thank you

[Viks]

I am going to instal this hack on my forum.

- Can anyone here pls let me know if is this works ok with vB3.0.3?
- also do i need to back any other file besides profile.php and admincp/index.php?

- any known issues with vb 3.0.3? sorry but cant really go through all 10 pages of messages.

I did come across few post where users were having issues with vb3.0.3! question - does it come with uninstaller as well?

[docvader]

I had no problem installing it on 3.03. It was easy, and it functions superbly.

[memobug]

Originally Posted by Viks

I am going to instal this hack on my forum.

- Can anyone here pls let me know if is this works ok with vB3.0.3?
- also do i need to back any other file besides profile.php and admincp/index.php?

- any known issues with vb 3.0.3? sorry but cant really go through all 10 pages of messages.

I did come across few post where users were having issues with vb3.0.3! question - does it come with uninstaller as well?

There are some issues with operation, but not many problems with installation. Mainly, the coming events and birthdays don't work under vb3.0.3 You just don't get anything. I also documented a minor bug affecting the sort of one of the listings

For your own education & safety, you should really read through the past posts before installing a hack. Ten or twelve pages is almost nothing. Some of the more popular hacks have many, many more.

I would backup my database. The stock vb scripts you can restore quite easily.

Regards,

Matt