Show Thread Enhancements - Who has read a Thread

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This displays who has read a thread, and the time they last looked at it.

Hovering over a name will show when the member last viewed the thread, and (optionally) what IP address they viewed it from. Note that you can only view the ip addresses in the 'View-All' display.

There is also an option to allow a thread author to view who has read their thread when they are not in one of the allowed usergroups. The IP and number of days restrictions still apply.

The set/reset facility allows members to click on the 'set' link which then sets a personal 'cutoff' time - only showing who has read the thread after that time. The time can be reset as many times wanted, and also completely cleared again. When using this facility there is also a link to allow you to view a seperate list of all readers of the thread.

Warning: When using the set/reset option - there is only a limited capacity of entries per thread (several thousand) - therefore you should only allow this feature to be used by a limited number of people - typically Staff usergroups. Allowing all members to use it will probably slow down your forum and cause errors if more than about 3000 members set a date on one thread.

Note: You must have the "Show Users Browsing Threads" option set in your vbulletin options for this to display.

A cron job (optionally) allows the deletion of records from the whoread table that are over a certain age - this is provided for large forums where the number of table entries can start to reach a million or more after 12 months. The delete age is a setting in the ACP.

There are also settings for the following (in vBulletin Options > Who Has Read a Thread) ;

1. Turn the system on/off.
2. Restrict the display to certain usergroups
3. Restrict the IP display to certain usergroups.
4. Restrict the display to a set number of days.
5. Option to allow thread author to view who read information.
6. Option to turn on the who read cutoff date (reset) function
7. Restrict use of reset function to certain usergroups.
8. Option to set whoread data records to be cleaned out after xxx days.
9. Clicking on a user will display a page of their thread viewing history, most recent first.

Note: When using option 4 or the set/reset facility, the data is still kept beyond this limit, so they can be changed at any time.

Download the zip, extract the XML file and import using the vb Product Manager.

Version 3.7.006 has experimental support for TMS. If you have TMS installed then the existing automatic template update system will be disabled in favour of TMS. One effect of this is that when using TMS the requirement for "Show Users Browsing Threads" to be enabled is bypassed . This version will continue to work as before for those who do not use TMS.


History:

v3.7.001 : First Release for vb 3.7.
v3.7.002 : Added check for 'view others threads' permission.
v3.7.003 : Fix for cron_script hook changed in 3.7 Beta 4.
v3.7.004 : Bug fix for days limit when reset option is enabled.
v3.7.005 : Updated to remove potential $group variable name clash.
v3.7.006 : TMS Support added, this is currently experimental.
v3.7.007 : Threads read via the archive are now recorded. Minor permissions update as well.

[xyzmary2001]

Hey there!

I really love the idea of this add on, and I do need it, but when I try to install i receive:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.0:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE whoread (
userid int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default 0,
threadid int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default 0,
dateline int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default 0,
ipaddress varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (userid,threadid),
KEY dateline (threadid,dateline),
KEY ipaddress (ipaddress));

MySQL Error : CREATE command denied to user 'vbulletinfor'@'localhost' for table 'whoread'
Error Number : 1142
Request Date : Friday, August 1st 2008 @ 05:14:00 PM
Error Date : Friday, August 1st 2008 @ 05:14:00 PM
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.54-log

What can I do?

[Paul M]

Change your SQL user permissions so it can create tables.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

this stopped working

Things do not just stop working, you (or someone) must have changed something.

[Mrdby]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Things do not just stop working, you (or someone) must have changed something.

maybe the upgrade. I'm not sure. You seem kind of rude the way you come off. Things do happen.

[Ingress]

Hello Mrdby,

after your 1,138 posts on this board everyone would expect that you know that a notice to the developer should contain the circumstances under which the mod stopped working for you otherwise it's not of any use for both users and the coder.

I don't think Paul is getting rude, he just gives a short and true answer to your statement.

Ingress

[Mrdby]

Originally Posted by Ingress

Hello Mrdby,

after your 1,138 posts on this board everyone would expect that you know that a notice to the developer should contain the circumstances under which the mod stopped working for you otherwise it's not of any use for both users and the coder.

I don't think Paul is getting rude, he just gives a short and true answer to your statement.

Ingress

THANKS PAUL

[Elenna]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

maybe the upgrade. I'm not sure. You seem kind of rude the way you come off. Things do happen.

If you upgraded and reverted your templates, you will need to re-edit them again.

[Elenna]

/me clicks installed.

Beautiful work, thank you Paul!

Quick question... is there functionality to only track certain usergroup's views, instead of everyone? IE - we have an Inactive usergroup, and wouldn't care if their names showed up.

[Derekclarke]

I have just launched a second forum...

I have this installed and working on my first forum... but it is not working on the second one..

I have tried creating a new default style... then installing the product... editing the usergroup permissions etc...

but still it does not show up.

Any ideas?

[Paul M]

Sorry, no idea. You can PM me admin access if you like.