Add-On Releases - vBulletin-Glossary

What is vBulletin-Glossary:

A professional glossary with features like :

• crosslinking
• attachments in entries
• edit-history
• synonyms
• optional entryfields
• vb-SEO compatible
• etc.

Installation:

- Upload all files in 'upload' to your server

- set 777-permission for the following directories:

• /vbglossar
• /vbglossar/backup
• /vbglossar/temp

- Import 'product-vbglossar.xml' in AdminCP as Add-On.

Right after the import of the productfile, go and set the usergroups. Afterwards edit the setting in AdminCP (Settings and Crosslinking). Now go to 'manage categories' and create the wanted cats.

Now the glossary should be configured and ready to use.

Update from version 1.0.0 to version 1.0.1/version 1.0.1 to version 1.1.x:

Follow the instruction of a new installation, also check the file permissions. After importing the product (overwrite: yes), check the grouprights and the settings of the glossary as there are some new features. In case the entries won't show up, please rebuild the datastore in the tools-section of the glossarin in admincp.

General:

This addon has been developed by the follwing people (a-z): Andreas, Captainslater, G?rome, Surviver and me. We spent every free minute for this project (coding, translation, tests, etc). Also MrD and Ragtek have tested during the time when this addon got developed.

In directory '/tools' you might find a usefull Script by G?rome. User of vBCMS will find a module for their portal in directory 'vbcms' which shows a random entry of the glossary.

History:

• 1.0.0 - First version
• 1.0.0 PL 1 - Fixed Version by G?rome, users can't write unwnated entries anymore.
• 1.0.1 - overwork of the code, now working with datastore and datamanager. Also we included some small new features into the addon (e. g. revert entries, inlinemod, etc).
• 1.0.2 - overwork of the code, bugs removed, a lot of new features
• 1.0.3 - fixed more small bugs and added new functions (create threads for discussions, more options for crosslinking, better options for mods/admins, etc).
• 1.0.4 - bugfix-release.
• 1.1.0 - added more main-features (synonyms can be used now, optional use of entryfields within categories, PDF-functions included, vB-SEO kompatible, TOC-list, etc)

Languages:

By default you will find the complete germany and english phrases in the product (look at ZIP-file), done by Captainslater. The turkish translation has been done by t?rkg?rc?.

More translations are welcome and it would be nice if those will be published here.

[Vossi]

Gérome just released Version 1.0.0 PL 1, users and guests cannot write unwanted entries anmore. Just upload all files to your server again (with overwrite), import the product and that's it.

There hasn't been any serious risk, everybody can calm down now.

[abdelghani68]

Thanks for this hack.

I don't see the sub sub-categorie in the admin cp.

can you help me please

thanks

[Dr. Bantham]

Originally Posted by Dr. Bantham

Wonderful mod! MOTM quality, IMHO!

I only have one issue thus far. The crosslinking feature can hijack portions of existing links. It should be disabled if the text is within an existing link. This can be witnessed in the link below, where the portion of the previous link (The Shadow at the Bottom of the World) has a link to the glossary. Notice that the first segment of the text (Thomas Ligotti - ") still refers to the original link. Also note that the closing quotation mark has been stripped from the hyperlink and displays as normal text.
http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=1373

I have tested the process on a link which included only the glossary entry text, and it did not take over the link. Therefore, I assume the problem will only appear when a subset of the text is within a link which includes additional text within the description.

UPDATE
Strangely, the crosslink is not active when the text is presented while enclosed within quotation marks. The example above apparently was not following this rule due to the hyperlink. I would like to disable this rule as well, since I am using the glossary to catalog an author's body of work, and many of the stories are enclosed within quotation marks when referenced throughout the site.

Forgive me for the bump, but I assumed that my issues were likely overlooked in the panic over the bot activity. See my original post above.

[WildSoftCat]

Thanks

Some bugs in this version :

1) Icon near crosslink does not appear, if crosslinked text begins of post.
2) Popup doesn't appear, if crosslinked text is in the only string of post (?)
3) Popup encoding must be the same as in main page, now different (my common encoding is windows-1251, but popup is shown in utf8 (?) )

[Keyser Soze]

Thanks for the quick fix and for this great hack in general.
I have a few (small) feature requests:

• Forum-ID exclude-list: Provide an option to exclude certain forum-ids from crosslinking. This would be useful for me because I have some forum categories where I don't want any crosslinking.
• Don't highlight the current glossary entry name in the description on the showentry-page again. This is unneccessary
• Include a "read more" link in the overlib-popup and/or add 3 dots at the end (...) to show to the readers more clearly that there is more text if they click on the link.

[Chadi]

Thanks for the mod.

Questions:
- there is not general features in "manage entries" such as add, delete, edit.

Feature request:
- add above mentioned features in admincp
- list glossary terms
- show/hide author name and last edit columns

Thanks.

[R_Enterprise]

okay installed it.. how in the world do you add entries?

Theres like no "new topic" button to add any entries

[derandechser]

Theres like no "new topic" button to add any entries

If you do not use standard-style, you have to put the images in the image-folder of your style...
(sorry for my english)

Peter

[R_Enterprise]

Originally Posted by derandechser

If you do not use standard-style, you have to put the images in the image-folder of your style...
(sorry for my english)

Peter

Thanks got it fixed

[MrD]

Nice Hack and perfect Support
Run?s without Problems.

Nominated for MOTM