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[DBTech] DragonByte Reviews v1 (vB4) · **Released**: 08-16-2013

DragonByte Reviews is an advanced review system that allows you to get your users interacting with your forums on a new level

Uses

With a wide range of permissions, you can allow your users to create/rate reviews, and customize it to your liking. You can also setup separate instances of the review system with different rating questions, custom fields and a review front page look.

You can even tie the review system into any product system with a little custom work.

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Major Features

Multiple Instances: You can run an unlimited number instances of the review system on the same forum with same set of files! Each instance can have a different look and feel to it with the help of the customizable display blocks, custom fields and custom rating questions.

AJAX integration: We used AJAX wherever we could to help reduce the page reloads, including adding/viewing comments and rating reviews

Images in WYSIWYG editor: We added the vB WYSIWYG editor with the ability to add inline images into the review text so that you can create reviews that pop.

Front End and ACP Approval: Review approval and editing can be done quickly through either the front end by moderators or in the ACP by adminstrators.

Complete Feature List

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Reviews

Preview before submission
Rich Snippets
Google+ Author Integration
Google Maps
Inline images
Automatic image resizing
Fully integrated WYSIWYG editor
VBAA Integration
Social Media Links
- Facebook
- LinkedIn
- Pinterest
- Google+
- Twitter

Approvals

Quickly approve or reject a review with a reason
Rejected reviews can be resubmitted with a message differentiating them from new reviews

Integrations

Live Feed & User Wall
vBNotifications
Advanced Post Thanks/Likes (Coming Soon!)
Any Product/Shop System (With minor integration coding)

Categories

Unlimited Nested Categories
Categories Unique to Instance

StyleVars

"Checkmark" image in the Packages / Discounts display
Border around the reviews & side blocks
Padding around the reviews & side blocks
Thumbs Up/Down images

Per Instance Permissions

Set instance to display if one isn't specified
Add link to navigation dropdown and specify link title
Set number of reviews to display per page
Set the types of image files allowed to upload
Set rating questions associated with this instance
Usergroup permission: Can View Reviews
Usergroup permission: Can Add Reviews
Usergroup permission: Auto Approve Reviews
Usergroup permission: Can Approve Reviews
Usergroup permission: Can Rate Reviews
Usergroup permission: Can Modify Others Reviews
Usergroup permission: Can Delete Reviews
Usergroup permission: Can Delete Others Reviews
Usergroup permission: Can Comment
Usergroup permission: Can Delete Comments
Usergroup permission: Can Delete Comment on Others Reviews

Custom Fields

Links automatically covert to bbcode
Single Line Text
Multiple Line Textbox

Review Front Blocks

Highest Rated By Reviewer
Highest Rated By Users
Latest Reviews
Most Commented
Most Popular (View Count)
Reviews by X (specific User ID)

Forum SideBlocks

Latest Reviews
Highest Rated
Most Popular (View Count)
Random

Importers

[chris] Reviews

Pro

Approvals

Can be done through front end or ACP

Categories

Per Usergroup visibility

Per Instance Permissions

Allow google map integration (looks up by address)

Custom Fields

Select Dropdown
Checkboxes
Radio Buttons

Review Front Blocks

Latest comments
Tag Cloud

Forum SideBlocks

Tag Cloud

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of forum home and all pages generated by this mod which includes:

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

DragonByte Tech · #22 11-05-2013, 11:25 AM

Sorry for the delay, I'll get Dylan in this thread ASAP.

Fillip

tpearl5 · #23 11-05-2013, 01:32 PM

my thoughts on a review system: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f101/...-system-11864/

DragonByte Tech · #24 11-07-2013, 08:56 AM

Sorry all, my hard drive crashed a while ago and I guess my notification to here wasn't getting updated. I'll get caught up on the questions

Dylan

DragonByte Tech · #25 11-07-2013, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morrus

Yep, that's right - mainly. That data has been through a few imports and at least 3 review systems (a custom one, GARS, another I don't recall the name of) over the last 13 years before being archived as a forum after the upgrade to vB4, so it's a bit messy.

Quote:

Originally Posted by My Hattiesburg

Oooh, that would be cool if I could import our reviews forum into this mod.

I have a beta forum importer in the works, running into an issue with existing thread images that I'm trying to work out. It will import the first post in the thread as the review and following posts as comments. I'll post it up here as soon as it's ready.

Dylan

DragonByte Tech · #26 11-07-2013, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hugh_

I'm not seeing how to rate products or reviewer. Where is that done? Thanks.

If you haven't figured it out, make sure you have review questions filled out and the review instance has questions assigned to it. If you do and it's still not working let me know and I'll take a look.

Quote:

Originally Posted by hugh_

Also the pictures aren't resizing very well. What dimensions should they be ideally?

Can you take a screenshot or point me to a messed up image? I'm not sure what not resizing right.

Dylan

DragonByte Tech · #27 11-07-2013, 09:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by darkforce114

Anyway to publish the reviews into the RSS external feed to post into Wordpress?

This was requested on the DBT site (not sure if it was you or not?) It's a good idea but not in there now. I'll work on adding some kind of RSS functionality in the next release.

Dylan

DragonByte Tech · #28 11-07-2013, 09:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tpearl5

my thoughts on a review system: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f101/...-system-11864/

I read the post and it has a lot of good ideas. It's a different direction then I was thinking when I wrote it but I think it's also a good one. I'll look at making it optional to have it more of an admin/moderator driven review system where the users main function is to rate and comment.

Dylan

adambloch · #29 11-07-2013, 10:01 AM

Hi Dylan

The suggestion of a admin/mod driven system gets my vote.... it would be great if it was a little like a restaurant review system that could have google map locations etc...

Being able to weight the stars would also be good.

many thanks

Adam

Chris27 · #30 11-25-2013, 07:20 PM

Just installed this and most things work great. However, the rating stars aren't working. There is no place to select the stars while writing a review and when viewing the reviews page all the star ratings are gray.

Any ideas?

Chris27 · #31 11-25-2013, 07:37 PM

Forget it. I figured it out.

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