Administrative and Maintenance Tools - [ITech] [AJAX] Inferno Mod Tools Lite

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[ITech] [AJAX] Inferno Mod Tools Lite
Created By Inferno Technologies (http://www.infernotechnologies.net)
Copyright 2004-2007
All rights reserved
Project Development Team: Zero Tolerance
Project Lead: Iain "Decado" Kidd
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Project Description

Mod Tools is an addition to vB which adds a couple of handy features, but mainly expands on making moderation easier, also implementing AJAX for streamlined control.

Features

Post History

Moderation is from time to time haulted by the fact an earlier edition of a post is lost forever. Post History keeps a full log of all edits to posts made by everyone from the moment it has been installed. Through this your staff can easily select previous versions of the post, or choose to see them all, solving this problem.

Post Moderation Comments

Post moderation comments are designed to allow your staff to append little notes to a single post which can be viewed by staff and if chosen, the author of the post. Here you can add moderation notes you may usually do when editing a post, but keeping the message away from the public. Or you can use it to communicate with other staff privately about the post.

Thread Bumping

You may want the ability to bump a thread automatically under certain circumstances without having to post in the thread again. The thread bumping system offers options to you, you can set a thread to be bumped if the first post is edited, any post is edited or any post by the author is edited.

Permissions

As expected, all features and tools within the product are under usergroup permissions, and you are free to allocate the relevant permissions to the usergroups you wish.

Screen shots below, enjoy!

Zero Tolerance
Inferno Technologies Lead Developer

[Inferno Tech]

In the lite version, thread bumping can't be done manually

As for Post History, that should be functioning within lite, although the edit to show the post history link in postbits is made automatically, It could be failing if you have a rather customised skin. Those experiencing issues with Post History, could you confirm it works with the default vB Skin on your forum?

Thanks,

- Zero Tolerance

[Arachnophiles]

Originally Posted by Inferno Tech

As for Post History, that should be functioning within lite, although the edit to show the post history link in postbits is made automatically, It could be failing if you have a rather customised skin. Those experiencing issues with Post History, could you confirm it works with the default vB Skin on your forum?

Thanks,

- Zero Tolerance

Indeed, my bad. Works perfectly on an un-customized skin.

Nice mod guys, thanks

[Cybertims]

The point is, why have the big lovely introduction and description of the features if they dont even exist in this mod? Mis-representation comes to mind here.

I have installed it, nothing happens or shows up.

[Inferno Tech]

One mis-interpretation, and that'd be my lazyness on not editing the verbiage Basically you don't get the control to manually bump threads, other than that, everything listed in the main post is included.

As for style issues, if you'd like to send me a copy of your postbit templates, if your using postbit then it'd be just postbit, or the legacy version postbit_legacy via PM, I'd be happy to debug the issue, this was designed on vB default skin, so customised skins -may- have issues with some of the auto template edits

- Zero Tolerance

[Snake]

Originally Posted by Inferno Tech

Unfortunately we can't support the LITE versions of our products - Sorry for any inconvinience - Decado

It's like saying, "Sorry, we don't give a damn about the free products. If you want support, then purchase the paid product dammit!"

Lolz.

[Darat]

Thanks Inferno Tech for making this available free - some people are quite ungrateful, many of the Mods here are offered with "no support" - why should your Mod be any different?

Quick question, I'm probably going to install this on our Forum but I'd want to change the "(View Post History) (View Moderation Comments)" to icons - am I allowed to do the template changes to do this?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Inferno Tech

Unfortunately we can't support the LITE versions of our products - Sorry for any inconvinience - Decado

I installed this on my test forum but there were several issues. Is there any point in posting them or should I just uninstall and move on ?

[Inferno Tech]

@Darat - This template is currently automatic, however since a few skins are having issues conforming to this, it will no doubt be changed to manual once the next release is out, which will fix issues reported by users

@Paul - It's worth posting them - we try to sort issues if we have the time, but it's not something we want to feel obligated to do, so we let people know not to *expect* it

[Zero Tolerance]

Originally Posted by Snake

It's like saying, "Sorry, we don't give a damn about the free products. If you want support, then purchase the paid product dammit!"

Lolz.

I have to disagree, first hand issues, bugs, and overall functionality will be our concern, on both the Lite edition, and any other. Once it is stable though, I can't hang around to answer every question, request, etc.. forever I'm afraid.

But to imply it's because the mod has a paid version is out of order really, I've released a catalogue of modifications on vB.org, not even 5 have paid extensions, and on all modifications I executed the same practice, make sure it's stable and fit for everyone to use, then move on...

Sometimes I wonder why I waste my time here Be thankful for the rest who can appreciate something for nothing.

- Zero Tolerance

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Inferno Tech

@Paul - It's worth posting them - we try to sort issues if we have the time, but it's not something we want to feel obligated to do, so we let people know not to *expect* it

The issues I had were as follows ;

1. The View Moderation Comments link showed up on registered users own posts, even though they had no permission. If you clicked on it then you just got a blank pop-up (just the proceed button).

2. When viewing edits, the phrase "Rep Power:" vanished from the postbit, leaving just the actual value displayed.

3. When viewing all edits, no timestamp information was shown for the current and original post contents, just the intermediate edit.

I did not try any of the bump features, I was only interested in looking at the post edit side really as I currently use PEH and wanted to do a comparison. I have decided to stick with PEH for now.