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DragonByte Technologies are proud to present InfoPanels v2: The most feature-packed Welcome Panel system for vBulletin, and the first Welcome Panel system for vBulletin 5!

Why InfoPanels?

Info Panels is another product from DragonByte Technologies, creators of vBActivity and vBShout. Info Panels allows you to display useful and interesting information in a much more user friendly way, allowing your members to access important areas of the forum, and important information, without having to go through different menu screens.

The Welcome Panel displays all the information your users may want to see instantly when they log on, without having to go searching for it. A handy Module format means you don't have to fiddle with complex code in order to drop it on ANY page, you simply use the Site Manager natively in vBulletin 5!

The Top X Stats portion of the software allows your users to keep track of whats going on in the forum almost in real time - perfect for boards with many forums which are hard to keep track of!

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Complete Feature List

Welcome Panel

• The user's picture with link to the profile where they can edit their User Picture
• New posts and threads since the user's last visit
• Time and date
• # unread PMs (# total PMs)
• Forum Stats: Total Members / Total Threads / Total Posts
• Top Poster with link to their profile, showing number of posts and threads they have
• Own Posts / Threads
• # Posts Per Day (# Posts Today)
• % of forum's total posts
• What forum the user is most active in (# posts and # threads)
• Latest News ticker with fade between news items (settable in vBulletin Options)
• Link to User Settings page

Top X Stats

• Choose "X"
• Disable each individual block
• Set various options per block
• Create new blocks with different options based on each Block Type
• User Stats
  • Newest Members
  • Top Posters
  • Top Thread Starters
• Forum Statistics
  • Newest Replies
  • Most Viewed Threads

Caching

• Fully integrated with vBulletin 5's new Cache functionality using the "Standard" cache type
• Settable Time-To-Live in vBulletin options to balance stale content with resource savings
• "Global" stats such as the Forum Stats in the above list are cached user-agnostic
• Per-user stats like # Posts Per Day are cached per-user

Easy Setup

• A hassle-free Module setup lets you drop the Welcome Panel on literally any page via vBulletin 5's Site Builder!
• Configurable Module title lets you rename the "Welcome Panel" header should you choose
• Fully integrated with the Site Builder under the "Display" grouping

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This mod displays a copyright notification on all pages which includes:

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

[robandyuk]

Is there any way to get Most Viewed Threads working with 5.0.3
all the other bits of top stats work but this one is blank

my users are not happy that VB have replaced views with likes

[DragonByte Tech]

If they've removed the feature outright then we can't bring it back unfortunately


Fillip

[robandyuk]

Not sure its gone altogether as the mobile app still shows post view count,
they seem to have decided that post view count is not needed in the forum.

[Wayne Luke]

Topic Views don't exist in vBulletin 5. There is a table to hold them but it isn't populated as far as I am aware.

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-5055

[DragonByte Tech]

<font size="3">InfoPanels v2.0.6 Alpha 7</font>
Change: 5.0.4 is now the minimum required version
Change: Changed module wrapper to use the built-in template
Fix: Fixed various other CSS change issues
Fix: The avatar for the Welcome block is now the correct size
Fix: The Top X Stats now correctly displays the title / collapse object
Fix: The "Newest Replies" block now works as intended
Fix: Fixed the missing drop-down icons on the columns

Fillip

[fionix]

Well I disabled (clicked on NO) to the Top stats at Vbulletin 5.04 but it keep display the top X stats? how can they be disabled?

Also it looks bad in the design overall?
here is the link to the forum: http://www.cclogic.com/forum/

[fionix]

seems to work now, was a caching problem i guess.

[DragonByte Tech]

That's very possible, thanks for getting back to us with the answer


Fillip

[fionix]

Your welcome, still I removed it.. the layout just don't fit in a standard Vbulletin setup.. there are too many errors as well.

I just wanted the same stats as in the Vbulletin 4.

[DragonByte Tech]

It's sadly impossible for me to fix anything if you don't give me any details regarding the "many errors"


Fillip