Show Thread Enhancements - Who has read a Thread

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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.

[J98680Bxxxxx]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Updated for Cron Hook changes.

Thanks Paul, *Installed*, working perfectly. :up:

Would it be possible to also get a "Who has viewed an Attachment" mods, with similar features?

[Paul M]

Hmm, do you really think there would be much call for such a mod.

[J98680Bxxxxx]

Hi Paul,

That's indeed a good question!

The attachment feature has been a great addition to the vBulletin, and I think that all statistical information that we can get out of that feature proved to be more and more useful. In analysing users activities for example (see vBExperience also), I have found it important to know, not only which users have posted attachments but, which users have actually viewed which attachments. In much the same as is done on Threads: Which users have posted Threads and which users have actually viewed which Threads. This is much for administrative purposes and strategic re-orientation of a forum content.

In my forums for example, in much the same as done here with mods, I do not allow people to post open html links to "external" documents, but they can paste those links along with descriptions inside attachments files and post those attachments. In this way, I keep track on how many users showed interest in a document, through the attachment views. But, one crutial information is still missing: Who has viewed/downloaded an attachment. I think that forums with a volume traffic on attachments will be very interested in such mods.

Actually, this feature or something similar is used here at vBulletin.org when displaying the vBulletin Add-ons listing. When I browse this page for example, Threads containing mods that I have downloaded are displayed with a prefix "Downloaded".

Still thinking loudly here, the vBulletin 3.7.0 contains a plethora of new features one of which is the "User Picture Galleries". It would be interesting to know "Who has viewed my pictures" (or "The last visitors to my album were:...")for example. I don't know if this has been implemented already.

What are your thoughts on this guys/gals?

[crkgb]

Clicking "view-all" gives this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';' in /home/russianwa/public_html/testvb/misc.php(96) : eval()'d code(196) : eval()'d code on line 18

and takes to the smilies page

[NeoAntrax]

Incompatible with 3.6.9

When an update? Thnx!!

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by crkgb

Clicking "view-all" gives this error

and takes to the smilies page

Sorry, I cannot replicate that. I would guess from the double eval its connected to the Display_Readers_View_Bit template - have you customised that ? Other than that I would need admin access to your forum.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by NeoAntrax

Incompatible with 3.6.9

This is the 3.7 version. Look in the 3.6 mods area for the correct version for you.

[J98680Bxxxxx]

Originally Posted by J98680B2423E

Hi Paul,

That's indeed a good question!

The attachment feature has been a great addition to the vBulletin, and I think that all statistical information that we can get out of that feature proved to be more and more useful. In analysing users activities for example (see vBExperience also), I have found it important to know, not only which users have posted attachments but, which users have actually viewed which attachments. In much the same as is done on Threads: Which users have posted Threads and which users have actually viewed which Threads. This is much for administrative purposes and strategic re-orientation of a forum content.

In my forums for example, in much the same as done here with mods, I do not allow people to post open html links to "external" documents, but they can paste those links along with descriptions inside attachments files and post those attachments. In this way, I keep track on how many users showed interest in a document, through the attachment views. But, one crutial information is still missing: Who has viewed/downloaded an attachment. I think that forums with a volume traffic on attachments will be very interested in such mods.

Actually, this feature or something similar is used here at vBulletin.org when displaying the vBulletin Add-ons listing. When I browse this page for example, Threads containing mods that I have downloaded are displayed with a prefix "Downloaded".

Still thinking loudly here, the vBulletin 3.7.0 contains a plethora of new features one of which is the "User Picture Galleries". It would be interesting to know "Who has viewed my pictures" (or "The last visitors to my album were:...")for example. I don't know if this has been implemented already.

What are your thoughts on this guys/gals?

:up: I have looked around trying to find helping factors and/or mods to alleviate the task of developing a mod on "Who has viewed/downloaded an attachment?" and I got a direction from Lynne. Lynne has referred me to this interesting mods "Who Downloaded This Attachment" by Psionic Vision.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=103155

May be some of you guys/gals are interested in it.

[fahl]

Where is this supposed to show,

[Paul M]

Under the "Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread" list.