Add-On Releases - Advanced Report Post Management System

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Distances First Official vBulletin Release!!

THIS PRODUCT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH vBulletin 3.7.x and higher


What does it do?

This is better for forums which get alot of post reports, it allows staff to see the amount of post reports open and lets them review and leave appropiate comments.

Users can see there post reports made and can see the status of the report and the moderator dealing with the report.

Admins / SuperMods / Moderators can see the post reports

*Note Moderators will only see the post reports in the forums they moderate*


Moderators can see who reported the post and the time at which it was reported, and the comment given by the user. There are also links to the post itself, the thread the post is on, the forum the thread is in, the user who posted the post and the user who reported the post.

The user page can be linked anywhere you choose; I have included instructions for linking it on the quicklinks menu.


Moderators can update the status of the report, and add a comment. The user who reported the post can then see these changes reflected in their page - it will show the name of the moderator dealing with the report, the comment (if any) left by the moderator, and the time at which the report was last updated.

When a moderator sets the status of a report to 'closed', it is moved to another page in modcp called 'closed post reports'. Post reports that are in the pending state are still kept in the 'outstanding post reports' page.

See screen shots for more information


Installation

• Unpack the .zip file
• Upload the files in the upload directory to your forum root
• Install the product by uploading the product xml file into the product manager in Admin CP
• Make the two template changes specified in 'template changes.txt'

Upgrading

From v1.0

If you are upgrading from v1.00 please uninstall then install the new one.
Be sure to uninstall the original otherwise you will get 2x everything!

From v1.01 OR HIGHER

Simply upload the plugin and choose to overwrite.




Changes

• 2 php files to upload
• One xml file to upload
• Two templates to change (navbar)
• Installs 3 plugins

Screenshots



User reporting post:





User going onto quick links to open up there post reports:





User viewing the post report they just made, it is still open and not assigned to a moderator:





A moderator can see in the navbar there is one post report:





They click on it and change the status to pending:






The user can now see in there reported posts page its under investigation and has been assigned to a moderator:





The moderator has reviewed the post and now closes the report:






The user can now see the closed report:





Other:


Modcp links:






Admincp links:


Distance (me)
Spleasure (Jorrit) for bug fixing help



Other Notes

• Please note that since i didnt release the original i cannot give support for this modification, however i will help as best as i can
• I have permission to release this port of the original
• FULLY backup your site before installing this modification!! Im not responsible for any loss of data etc if you install this incorrectly or dont backup your database
• Uninstall any previous releases of this hack BEFORE installing this one, failure to do so will result in database errors. *Meaning previous releases, not previous versions of my release*
• This has only been tested on 3.6.4 and 3.6.5, i dont see why this wouldn't work on other versions of vBulletin 3.6.X
• See next post for updates and important notes!!

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Important notice: By default if BOTH

• Post Reporting Discussion Forum
• Post Reporting Email

Are turned off.. the post report system will disable itself. I haven't
figured out a way to get round this yet but this will be updated in v2.10

So for now make sure in: vBulletin Options -> User Infractions & Post Reporting Options

One of these two options are turned on.

Click Install if you like this modifcation



Thanks

Distance

[SOL-R]

Distance, can the buttons that are in the modcp be put on the quick links menu and how would that be done? If it is possible? (the ones that show open and closed reports)

Thanks

R.

Great mod btw!

[goldenllama]

Absolutely love the mod. Thanks!

Is there a way that I'm overlooking to delete reports? I like leaving most of them closed, but I would like to delete a couple. Is this functionality built in and I'm just not finding it? Or is there a way to do it a different way?

Thanks again!

[Lemik]

when there'll is the new version, improved?

[Distance]

Theres not going to be an improved version.

I use the new version on my forum, it has java popups and ajax etc

[SOL-R]

Hi Distance! I wanted to move the open and closed buttons out of the modcp so, I came up with this code. I am not sure if it is right or the best way to code it. I am still learning alot but would like input on this.

PHP Code:

<!-- added menu items post reports -->

<tr><td class="thead">Post Reporting</td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="postreports.php">Your post reports</a></td></tr>
<tr>
<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo,5,6,7)">
<td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="modbook.php">Moderator handbook</a></td></tr>
<tr>
<if condition="$vbulletin->openreports"><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$modcpdir/postreports.php?do=list">$vbphrase[postreports_postreports]</a>:&nbsp;$vbulletin->openreports</if></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<if condition="$postreport[status]=pending"><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$modcpdir/postreports.php?do=list">$vbphrase[postreports_status_pending]</a>:&nbsp;$vbulletin->openreports</td></tr>
<tr>
<if condition="$postreport[status]=closed"><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$modcpdir/postreports.php?do=closed">$vbphrase[postreports_closedreports]</a>&nbsp;$vbulletin->closedreports</td></tr></if></if></if>

<!-- / end added menu items --> 


That will give you this

Did I do this right? Or is there a better way how to write it?

Thanks in advance for your help.


Richard

[LiLSnooP]

when appear the new version 2.10 ?

[bigfoot]

This seems to be a very great system, but it creates both a thread and an entry in your system when reporting a thread/post.

Any information how change this ?

[mauro1947]

Im using on a spanish site and date is not shown
Looks like:

mauro1947 d-m-Y h:i A

or

Moderator: mauro1947 Updated: d-m-Y h:i A

How can i fix this?
Thanks
Regards!

[GriZzm0]

Great plugin, just what we needed at our forum. However, found some "bugs" or perhaps it's just a flaw. Users who just moderates a few forum gets a message telling them how many reported posts there are in their forum, but if they check the modcp they can see and handle all the post reports and not just the posts in their forums.

Would be great if you can change/fix that, because I don't want some random board mod to be able to handle all the reports.

[Yorixz]

Originally Posted by GriZzm0

Great plugin, just what we needed at our forum. However, found some "bugs" or perhaps it's just a flaw. Users who just moderates a few forum gets a message telling them how many reported posts there are in their forum, but if they check the modcp they can see and handle all the post reports and not just the posts in their forums.

Would be great if you can change/fix that, because I don't want some random board mod to be able to handle all the reports.

I agree, in addition to that I'd really love to see the reports being grouped by threadid, and perhaps even allow closing multiple reports, that'd really help to speed things up when there are a lot of reports waiting for action - saves the endless reloading.