Private Messages Enhancements - Private Message Quote Formatting

What is it?
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This mod arranges quotes in a PM to be in a "conversational" order instead of being nested. This solves the problem of displaying deeply-nested quotes. This mod also has an option to add a date/time stamp to quoted PMs.

Note: I'm marking this "beta" because it hasn't been tested very much. If you try this, please let me know if you have any problems or would like it to work differently.

Also, I'm not much of an html/css person - this mod mostly provides variables which can be checked in the template, and a bare-bones css file. If anyone comes up with css for a better looking format and wants to share it, please do (and maybe I'll put it in a later version).

(vb3 version here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=292996)


Installation:

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Just import the product XML file from the Product Manager. This doesn't change stored PMs in any way (unless you enable the date/time stamp - see below), so you can uninstall or disable the product at any time to go back to the original PM template.

If you'd like to customize the format, you can edit the kh99_pm_quote, kh99_pm_quote_bit, and/or the kh99_pm_quote.css templates.

If you want to add date/time tags to PM quotes, go to the adminCP options under "Private Messaging Options" and set "Add Date and Time to Quotes" to yes. Note that if you later uninstall this mod, any messages quoted while this option was on will still contain a date/time tag, but it will display after the name in a default format and timezone. If this is a concern, it's probably better that you don't enable this option.

Also note that the date/time option only adds the timestamp to newly quoted messages - it will not add one to quotes in existing messages.


History:
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0.91 (Dec 22, 2012)

• Fixed conflict with at least one mod that adds default text formmating
• Fixed problem with html in pm notification email
• Option to show only N newest quotes and hide the rest
• Optional Date/Time tag added to quotes in PMs
• Added enable/disable option for the entire product, in admincp
• Templates are now cached
  

0.9 (Dec 14, 2012)

• Initial Release

[vicius_the_one]

I can't see PM's as conversation at all .

[kh99]

Originally Posted by vicius_the_one

I can't see PM's as conversation at all .

Hmm...I'm not sure what to tell you about that. If you give me a list of products you have installed I can try to figure out if one of them is conflicting with this one (you can send it by Pm if you'd rather).

[rcsparks]

Thank you for a great mod MUCH Neater!

[goxy63]

Originally Posted by kh99

What version of this mod do you have installed? The problem you mention was in the original version, but I thought it had been fixed in version 0.91. (Edit: it looks like you've only downloaded 0.9, so maybe you just need to upgrade).

yes thats it, all perfect now
thanks for great mod :]

[kh99]

FYI, I've decided to set this to "reusable", if anyone wants to reuse the code for any reason.

[sticky]

Installed and working great! Awesome mod.

[Mickie D]

This is excellent mate... well done, I just installed it on my forum and I am about to nominate this!

Mick

[sticky]

Hi kh99, small problem with the mod. The PM e-mail notification now is formatted incorrectly. Any idea why?

[Liff]

This is awesome - Exactly what I was asking for a while back and it's delivered way above expectation - Thanks very much kh99

One thing - Is it possible to amend it so that your part in convo's are white and the replies are blue or whatever (colours replaceable depending on the theme you're using) or is that just silly?

[kh99]

Originally Posted by sticky

Hi kh99, small problem with the mod. The PM e-mail notification now is formatted incorrectly. Any idea why?

Are you using the latest version? That was a problem with the original release but I believe it's been fixed with the latest update.