Inline Moderation Tools (v1.2.1)

Note: Development of this hack has stopped.
The built-in version is far superior to this hack and has better controls and permission checking. For those of you who will remain on 3.0.x, I will try to support this hack as best I can, but it won't be a top priority. If you plan on moving to 3.5, I hope this hack made your life a little bit easier while you waited .

Current Version: 1.2.1 (Wed Dec 11 15:26:30 PDT 2004)

What this is?
This hack will allow you and your moderators to do your job more effectively by allowing you to mass-moderate. You can perform the same action on multiple threads and posts without leaving the current page!

What is required?
In order to use this hack, you must have cookies and JavaScript enabled! If you don't, this hack will not work. (Note: there is no "alternative display" for people without JavaScript enabled).

How many changes?
Uploads: 2
File edits: 2
And template additions/edits

Support
I will provide all support here in this thread.

Bugs
I have thoroughly tested this hack with as many different combinations I could think of. But I probably have either over looked one or two, or just didn't think of some. If you find any odd behaviour, please let me know!

Changes Since

• 1.2.0
  • Fixed problems with merging threads
  • Enhancement to the merge thread screen
• 1.1.0
  • (Hopefully) resolved all JavaScript issues
  • Merge threads
  • Removed search results moderation ability (it was too much work to maintain and a user could bypass the protection if he knew how the hack operated)
  • Bug with not updating all user fields in post merge
  • Bug with checking for the wrong permissions when deleting a post
  • Template caching
  • Selection boxes only appear when a user is a moderator
• 1.0.0
  • Fixed search results
  • Added small announcement patch

Fixes For 1.2.1
The following fixes are in in the next version:

• Instructions typo for threadbit template
• Attachments are lost when merging posts The download has not yet been updated with this fix!

On The To-Do List

• Usergroup permission for inline moderation

If you'd like a moderator action added to this hack, post it below and I'll look into it.

What are the screen shots of?

• Thread listing with inline moderation
• Post listing with inline moderation
• Merge posts screen
• Result of merging posts
• Split thread screen

Don't forget to click install!!!

[rob_daemon]

Originally Posted by AloneEagle

Hi there,
I don't really understand the step where you said "Add inline_merge:" and "Add inline_move:" Can you please tell me how and what to do on this step ?
Thanks

Sure! What you do is you go into the Style Manager and in the style's drop-down menu to the left, select "Add New Template" and name to what the instructions say and make the template's contents be what the instructions specify.

[Phalynx]

Great, thanks!

[Burns]

Hi rob_daemon!

When i have read the name "Inline Moderation" i was very happy,
but i looks like this hack does not include what i really need :

- show unapproved posts along with others
( whereever they would apprear after approvement ),
and let moderators approve ( or delete ) them.

Also it would be nice to be able to "unapprove" a post
( if a moderator approved a post by mistake,
while he/she actually wanted to wait with approvement of this post
until other mod/admin reviewes it, or let others approve it )

I requested it in vb.com forum , and others requested it too
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...ghlight=inline
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...ghlight=inline

Could you add this feature to your Inline Moderation hack?

[rob_daemon]

I'm not sure how feasible it would to go from moderated to unmoderated posts, but the other way shouldn't be hard. The first one may present a challenge, but I can take a look and see.

[Burns]

Thank you ^_^
I tried to do it myself this evening,
but i know too little about vB code, and php in general,
i all could do so far was to let users with mod. privilegies see unapproved posts in threads,
while other users can not.
Then i tried to find out how to change the background color for unapproved posts
( or highlight them anyhow ), but failed : (
( though it's rather simply task... )

There are not many admins who need to approve new posts,
but i'm sure, everyone who does, will be grateful if you add this option...

About change from unmoderated to moderated - probably i wouldn't think of it myself,
but it was in IPB and i liked this feature

Also i would like to add, that to approve new posts inline,
the unapproved posts really need to be highlighted, as well as the threads, pages and forums with unapproved posts
( else it would be alomst impossible to find them )

And the last thing... guess it would not go well along with your inline moderation concept,
but it would be really nice to have for approvement "approve/delete" buttons at every post, it could save a lot of click-work,
if you need to approve or delete just single posts in many threads or even forums...
( 1 click instead of 4 clicks + scroll-down pro approvement )

[rob_daemon]

I have an idea of how to make it work (and yes the posts would be highlighted). My only concern is that it may require quite a few modifications to showthread.php; other than that I can see it working.

It will probably be a few weeks as school keeps me extremely busy.

[pjdaley]

how would i be able to edit more then 1 thread title at the same time using this wonderful hack? i need to add a prefix to all my threads in a certain forum. thanks in advanced

[rob_daemon]

That's beyond the scope of the hack. You could probably do it with a single MySQL query, though.

[korg]

Thanks for this beautiful work, I will install this hack in my board.

[HuangA]

Great hack, thanks for sharing this great work with us.

*HuangA clicks install


Edit: oops, didn't see you already mention inline merge therads is already in the works. GOOD JOB!