New Posting Features - [DBTech] Draft Posts v1 (vB4)

What is Draft Posts?
Draft Posts allows users to save a post as a draft which can be reused later as a template or draft for a new post. Each Post can be saved as a Draft copy by one click at the foot of each postbit or checking an option when creating a new post. All available Drafts are displayed below the bottom Reply button on the Show Thread pages. All Drafts can be deleted from the User Control Panel area.
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Complete Feature List

Major Features
Draft Posts: Each post can be added as a a draft.

Usergroup Permissions: Administrators can set each usergroup's access to the mod.

Show Thread: All Drafts are available to use on each Show Thread page.

General Settings

• Option to toggle plugin on or off.
• Option to hide the version number in the footer.

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of Show Thread pages which includes:

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

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by sticky

Uploaded tweaked files, formatting issues gone.

Glad it's all sorted for you.

Matt

[DragonByte Tech]

Hi everyone,

Today brings version 1.0.2 od Draft Posts and is available download. This update fixes some minor bugs as well as an issue with styling for users with no inline moderation permissions. To solve this problem a new StyleVar has also been introduced which can be adjusted to fix the issue on custom styles.

Thanks to everyone who keeps posting ideas for the mod, and those dedicated users who make sure we can identify and solve the bugs within the product.

The full change log is here:

Fixed: Missing cached templates.
Fixed: Issue with Reply with Draft Button overlapping the Reply button when normal users are browsing a thread.
Feature: New StyleVar to fix the spacing gap for the Reply with Draft Button.

[Barbara1]

@DragonByte Tech,
this is an excellent mod!

my team and i, use it a lot.
i miss only one feature and i would be very happy to see it included in future release.
i need to:
create a draft post (or many) and then i want this draft post to be copied to some usergroups (and every user of these usergroups can have it in their existing draft area), so these usergroups users can use it to create a specific type of threads.
if this is possible, the result will be for my users to create easily complicated posts.
posts with too many bbcodes, tables etc.

is this possible?

thank you again @DragonByte Tech for this perfect (for me at least) mod

[DragonByte Tech]

Hmmm, just realized I'd not seen your post. Sorry for the delayed response. There is already something like that that DragonByte have, called Post Templates. Is that the sort of thing you are wanting? If it's not quite what you need, I will have a look at what we can do to expand Draft Posts to fit in with your needs.

Matt

[Barbara1]

it looks like the "post templates" is what i was exactly looking for. thank you very much

[Divvy]

Thank you for the great mod! Btw, I have a little issue in my template.
Can you please take a look?

Inside the post, appears fine:


But inside the forum appears weird:


Im the only one with this issue?
How to fix this?

Thanks!

[DragonByte Tech]

Sorry for the long wait for a reply... the thread got marked as read before we saw yours...

To answer your question, the StyleVar: dbtech_draftposts_reply_spacer is what you will need to adjust. Adjusting that value will bring the draft post higher up both the showthread and forumdisplay page (by the looks of the screenshot, the showthread is lower than it should be).

Let me know if that helps. Try a few different values to adjust it and see what looks best.

Matt

[DragonByte Tech]

Minor update to fix some uncached template issues (v1.0.3):

Fixed: Missing cached templates.
Change: Updated to include new Branding Free changes.

Changed Files:
/dbtech/draftposts/hooks/cache_templates.php
/dbtech/draftposts/hooks/global_start.php

Matt

[DragonByte Tech]

Draft Posts 1.0.4

Hi everyone,

Released a bug fix (v1.0.4) for Draft Posts to fix an issue with guests seeing options to save as a draft when guests can post threads.

Fixed: Option to save post as a Draft for usergroups without permissions.

Changed Files:
/dbtech/draftposts/hooks/process_templates_complete.php
/dbtech/draftposts/hooks/global_start.php

Thanks as always to everyone for their feedback and suggestions.

[angeljs]

Man, I love your stuff, this is great! The only issue I'm having is that when the draft is loaded, it's loaded as raw HTML instead of bbcode...is this supposed to happen?

Edit: Just realised there's also a styling issue: