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DragonByte Technologies are proud to present InfoPanels v2: The most feature-packed Welcome Panel system for vBulletin, and the first Welcome Panel system for vBulletin 5!

Why InfoPanels?

Info Panels is another product from DragonByte Technologies, creators of vBActivity and vBShout. Info Panels allows you to display useful and interesting information in a much more user friendly way, allowing your members to access important areas of the forum, and important information, without having to go through different menu screens.

The Welcome Panel displays all the information your users may want to see instantly when they log on, without having to go searching for it. A handy Module format means you don't have to fiddle with complex code in order to drop it on ANY page, you simply use the Site Manager natively in vBulletin 5!

The Top X Stats portion of the software allows your users to keep track of whats going on in the forum almost in real time - perfect for boards with many forums which are hard to keep track of!

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Complete Feature List

Welcome Panel

• The user's picture with link to the profile where they can edit their User Picture
• New posts and threads since the user's last visit
• Time and date
• # unread PMs (# total PMs)
• Forum Stats: Total Members / Total Threads / Total Posts
• Top Poster with link to their profile, showing number of posts and threads they have
• Own Posts / Threads
• # Posts Per Day (# Posts Today)
• % of forum's total posts
• What forum the user is most active in (# posts and # threads)
• Latest News ticker with fade between news items (settable in vBulletin Options)
• Link to User Settings page

Top X Stats

• Choose "X"
• Disable each individual block
• Set various options per block
• Create new blocks with different options based on each Block Type
• User Stats
  • Newest Members
  • Top Posters
  • Top Thread Starters
• Forum Statistics
  • Newest Replies
  • Most Viewed Threads

Caching

• Fully integrated with vBulletin 5's new Cache functionality using the "Standard" cache type
• Settable Time-To-Live in vBulletin options to balance stale content with resource savings
• "Global" stats such as the Forum Stats in the above list are cached user-agnostic
• Per-user stats like # Posts Per Day are cached per-user

Easy Setup

• A hassle-free Module setup lets you drop the Welcome Panel on literally any page via vBulletin 5's Site Builder!
• Configurable Module title lets you rename the "Welcome Panel" header should you choose
• Fully integrated with the Site Builder under the "Display" grouping

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This mod displays a copyright notification on all pages which includes:

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

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by meissenation

I've been reporting the issue for almost a month, bumping this thread asking for help about random "Visitor Messages" being captured in the Top Stats panel including the screenshot.

Edit: Disregard the new issue - apparently vB5 doesn't give a clean "Database connection error" window anymore and just throws error code 500 when it can't connect to the database. God I hate vB5.

500 is a server error of some sort. If that's being displayed within vBulletin, then you should put your site into debug mode to get the actual error.
http://www.vbulletin.com/go/vb5debug

[Manuela]

If you are also using the shoutbox, then the statistic tool counts the shouts in it...

So it says right now:
You have 2,92 posts per day (34 posts today).

But I had only one post in forum today... the rest in shoutbox

[Beor]

Hello

We installed on vb5.31 and installed correctly, but doesnt appear on forums.

BR

[shimei]

Originally Posted by Beor

Hello

We installed on vb5.31 and installed correctly, but doesnt appear on forums.

BR

Mine too, revert all changes in Infopanels' admincp. If anything other than the default settings such as topic title character length ect are altered then it won't display.

Dragonbyte, how about fixing your product?

[mdawg]

I still see the infopanels TOP STATS down at the bottom, seemed updated and working on my 5.3.1 ?

WELCOME PANEL at top seems to be working too except that it still has that bug in it that tells me I have 5 unread PMs which is incorrect.

Also, as far as the bug mentioned by Manuela in post #162, about the shoutbox messages adding onto the total of posts made in the WELCOME PANEL, I have not noticed this, but I have noticed that the system seems to update saying that I had a post today when it was not I who made the new post, but some other member.

[mdawg]

I installed this onto a brand new forum which currently has only two users so it is easier to track the posts.

On this new forum, the one user has made 49 posts. He is the top poster.

However in your Welcome Panel, near top, it says: "_______ is our top poster with 0 posts and 9 threads."

So I don't know what this mod is counting, but it is not working.

[voyger]

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Hi !!

..its running on a vbulletin v 5.3.2 and its ok

I'm wondering
..how can I hide welcome and stats panel to guest ( not registered user ) ?
If I'm logged out I can still see both panel

[mdawg]

If you load a DbTech product, such as this one, onto a forum with thousands of members and tens of thousands of posts, which yes I have done that, then it is easy to say "It's ok."

But load it onto a brand new forum and keep track of the post and thread count and you will see that this mod is inaccurate, and doesn't really work properly.

[voyger]

Originally Posted by mdawg

If you load a DbTech product, such as this one, onto a forum with thousands of members and tens of thousands of posts, which yes I have done that, then it is easy to say "It's ok."

But load it onto a brand new forum and keep track of the post and thread count and you will see that this mod is inaccurate, and doesn't really work properly.

Hi

..sorry maybe I dont understood what you are meaning
but I meant that the mod seems to works ok on a vbulletin 5.3.2 and what i had to know is how can I HIDE modules to anyone goes to the forum as NOT logged in
I dont like anyone is able to read latest post or latest member or my welcom panel as a guest

It should be hidden to them ?

[torcidas]

I have problem with InfoPanels but after I uninstall it from forum and install it again (remove all css modification by myself) it start to work normaly and now I didn't try to make css modification like I have before to show all stats I need in top stats module since I don't have time for that ATM...