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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

[DragonByte Tech]

The Branding Free licences that work for vB4.x and lower also works for this version, that's about it until we get our Copyright Management mod ported


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Moved the line break from the start of the copyright to the end, thanks to mediasnog for pointing this out


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

InfoPanels (vB5) v2.0.6 Alpha 5:
Fix: Perma-fixed the copyright notice <br /> tag
Fix: Fixed block links to posts on page 2 or further into the thread
Change: Improved the display of the Top X Stats widget. It no longer has the "widget border" but instead has a border around the table itself.
Change: Improved some back-end code to give vBulletin less work when executing certain queries
Change: Reduced number of executed queries
Change: Removed some unneeded code for DataManagers
Change: Slightly improved performance on the dedicated vBulletin Options page for this mod
Change: Renamed the JS files for consistency

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Rebuilt Alpha 5 due to multiple issues being discovered with Beta 16.

Fillip

[Nelson58]

In the "What's Going On" box at the bottom of the site, the mod is placing avatars next to each user online, and that is too much with 500 people online, so I want to remove that. How do I do it please?

Thanks,

Nelson

[DragonByte Tech]

That is not a feature of the vB5 version of this mod.

Fillip

[Madd15]

I have downloaded and installed this mod on my forums but I can not for the life of me get it to display on the page, I drag the modules in to the layout of the page but when I save the page nothing and they have disappeared from the edit page function.

I have tried reinstalling, flushing caches, checked all areas of settings. If someone has any idea how to fix this that would be great because I would like to trial the modification before purchasing a pro license.

[smgxtreme]

Originally Posted by Madd15

I have downloaded and installed this mod on my forums but I can not for the life of me get it to display on the page, I drag the modules in to the layout of the page but when I save the page nothing and they have disappeared from the edit page function.

I have tried reinstalling, flushing caches, checked all areas of settings. If someone has any idea how to fix this that would be great because I would like to trial the modification before purchasing a pro license.

Same here, we are currently using Vb5 .28

[DragonByte Tech]

Can you please try re-downloading it from our site? I'm not sure if there may be a newer build of this mod available there.

Fillip

[Madd15]

I redownloaded from your site, i have been able to get the modules to show now but i noticed a very small error.

In Top posters and newest member there was this line

PHP Code:

<td><a href="{vb:raw post.profileurl}" title="{vb:raw post.fullusername">{vb:raw post.musername}</a></td> 


as you can see it is missing a } after post.fullname, this only caused a problem if you hovered over the name but only to a point of it displaying "{vb:raw post.fullname" instead of the user's name