Feature Suggestions

Please use this thread, if you want to suggest a new feature or something that would improve AWS.

Please do not use this thread to request code modifications, for your particular needs, this is to be used, for general feature suggestions, things that would apply to anyone's forum site.

Tnx and rgds

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John

[PamelaE]

Actually maybe all it needs is a system which auto replies to a user who makes an alert like "Thank you for raiseing an alert. The moderators are currently dealing with the problem. If you have further questions please e-mail blah blah blah"

I guess thats a seperate hack.

[sv1cec]

So you mean if someone reports a thread, he is automatically pm-ed back with a thank-you notice? Easy, but this has nothing to do with AWS. Actually, it's a great idea for another hack, as you said: "Customized PM responses". Interesting!

Rgds

[SkyShadow]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

Too many things to do and too little time. However, if someone is interested in doing this, I would appreciate it.

I would like to help you but I do not know PHP :disappointed:

[Tom1234]

I would like to see warnings/alert messages being completely customizable. You would initialize the warning message in a compose box, but anything in it - including the Predefined Comment - can be changed by the admin/moderator before sending the warning.

Also, I would like to have the warning message contain a quoted copy of the warned post text rather than a link to the post since it is common to delete the post when it is worthy of a warning - and the warned person does not always remember what they posted that resulted in a warning.

Why is it that only Alerts have Predefined Comments? This would be useful for Warnings as well.

[sv1cec]

OK, let's take it one at a time.

1. Predefined comments for warnings. In a sense this exists already, it is the description of the Warning Type. You can use that as a comment, and just activate the option to send this as a comment. But you are right, this whole thing needs some change. Next version, hopefully.

2. Include a copy of the original message in the Warning PM or email. This can be done, maybe next version.

3. Customizable message. I do not think this will be done, the reason being that the whole idea behind AWS is to make the moderators life easier. If we were to add more work to them, it makes it a moot point.

OK, 2 out of three, you must be a happy man!! LoL

The No2 is done, but I need some help on the No1, so please check the thread I've created in this forum, for providing your opinions.

Rgds

[rh2004]

Here is my feature requests,

I would like to enable/disable a default avatar that is shown when a user is moved into a usergroup.

So if they are disabled for one week, I would like there account to show this avatar. Maybe the possibilty of having more than one avatar that can be shown for each different usergroup.

My next idea:

When a user is moved into a banned group, I have rank images and when they are disabled it displays the disabled rank image but above it ads the temp banned text.
I would not like it to show the text when they are banned, I suppose I could just remove the rank title text from the templates.

Any comments

[sv1cec]

Wait a minute, this doesn't have much to do with AWS. What you want is a specific avatar per usergroup. So when a member is banned, his avatar changes to whatever the banned usergroup avatar is. Different hack alltogether.

As for the second idea, I am a little confused. You say you do not like the hack to show the "Temporarily banned" text. This text is their temporary title. You can change that, or remove that, by editing the specific text in functions_warning.php. Then you say that you could remove the rank title text from the templates. I do not use ranks, so I can't help with that.

Rgds

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by Tom1234

I would like to see warnings/alert messages being completely customizable. You would initialize the warning message in a compose box, but anything in it - including the Predefined Comment - can be changed by the admin/moderator before sending the warning.

I did some tests with this, actually, I've been testing this since the day I saw this post of yours, and here are my findings:

1. There are huge problems in implementing something like this. First of all, the whole structure of the program has to be changed, so that the warning is not entered in the database before the editing of the message is done, because then if the moderator does a "Back" and hits the button again, you end up having more than one warnings, for the same thing.
2. Suppose we do that. Then we have other problems. As you know, there are two ways to notify a user for a Warning, either via PM or via Email. If someone is using only one of these methods, it's not a big issue to allow him to edit the message. What with those who are using both? Do we allow them to edit both the PM and the Email message? This gets kind of messy.
3. And of course, there is the inconsistency issues in the above case. One may enter different things in the PM and then different in the Email.

Overall, even though I've spend quite some time trying to make it work, (I have already a version 3.5.0 running on my board) the problems it creates are more than the benefits. Practically, users will have to edit almost all the php files that the hack changes, again, in order to make them compatible with the new structure of the hack files.

Sorry

[heynurse]

Great hack! I have a few suggestions...

1. Is is possible to have the warned post stop sign graphic only viewable to staff?
2. Is it possible to actually have the specific offense next the warning graphic in the post as well? viewable my staff only
3. How about when the Automatic Warning is set off for a censored word, in the section where the staff can see the offensive post, can you have the bad word highlighted or Bold or something so it is easy to pick out quickly?

Thanks for listening to the suggestions, again, this is a great hack!

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by heynurse

Is is possible to have the warned post stop sign graphic only viewable to staff?

Yes, AdminCP - Warning System - Manage Warning Options, set "Who can view the Warning Points and bans?" to Mgm. This will also show the warning points etc, only to staff members. No separate control for the sign only. It is possible to add an Option which controls only the sign, and not both the sign and the warning points, but I do not see the point in that. If normal users are allowed to see the warning points, why not see the sign?

Originally Posted by heynurse

Is it possible to actually have the specific offense next the warning graphic in the post as well? viewable my staff only

No, because the specific offence is not stored together with the post. In other words, a user may have several offences from different posts. These are kept in the warnings table. In the post table, I use only a flag to say that this particular post has been warned. In order to do that, I would have to use another field in the post table, to store the offense for that particular post. It's not undoable, but ......

Originally Posted by heynurse

How about when the Automatic Warning is set off for a censored word, in the section where the staff can see the offensive post, can you have the bad word highlighted or Bold or something so it is easy to pick out quickly?

Yes, this is something I thought about several times too. You mean in AdminCP or ModCP, when you click on the See Uncensored Text link, to show the censored text underlined or something. I have to find a way to do this, but my php knowledge isn't that good! Give me some time. Maybe in the next release, if I manage to do it.

Update: The censored text now appears italic and underline, but I won't release this version until later this weekend, I want to thoroughly test it first, because the last release got out with some ommissions.