Show Thread Enhancements - Who has read a Thread

This modification is no longer available or supported.

This displays who has read a thread, and the time they last looked at it.

Hovering over a name will show when the member last viewed the thread, and (optionally) what IP address they viewed it from. Note that you can only view the ip addresses in the 'View-All' display.

There is also an option to allow a thread author to view who has read their thread when they are not in one of the allowed usergroups. The IP and number of days restrictions still apply.

The set/reset facility allows members to click on the 'set' link which then sets a personal 'cutoff' time - only showing who has read the thread after that time. The time can be reset as many times wanted, and also completely cleared again. When using this facility there is also a link to allow you to view a seperate list of all readers of the thread.

Warning: When using the set/reset option - there is only a limited capacity of entries per thread (several thousand) - therefore you should only allow this feature to be used by a limited number of people - typically Staff usergroups. Allowing all members to use it will probably slow down your forum and cause errors if more than about 3000 members set a date on one thread.

Note: You must have the "Show Users Browsing Threads" option set in your vbulletin options for this to display.

A cron job (optionally) allows the deletion of records from the whoread table that are over a certain age - this is provided for large forums where the number of table entries can start to reach a million or more after 12 months. The delete age is a setting in the ACP.

There are also settings for the following (in vBulletin Options > Who Has Read a Thread) ;

1. Turn the system on/off.
2. Restrict the display to certain usergroups
3. Restrict the IP display to certain usergroups.
4. Restrict the display to a set number of days.
5. Option to allow thread author to view who read information.
6. Option to turn on the who read cutoff date (reset) function
7. Restrict use of reset function to certain usergroups.
8. Option to set whoread data records to be cleaned out after xxx days.
9. Clicking on a user will display a page of their thread viewing history, most recent first.

Note: When using option 4 or the set/reset facility, the data is still kept beyond this limit, so they can be changed at any time.

Download the zip, extract the XML file and import using the vb Product Manager.

Version 3.7.006 has experimental support for TMS. If you have TMS installed then the existing automatic template update system will be disabled in favour of TMS. One effect of this is that when using TMS the requirement for "Show Users Browsing Threads" to be enabled is bypassed . This version will continue to work as before for those who do not use TMS.


History:

v3.7.001 : First Release for vb 3.7.
v3.7.002 : Added check for 'view others threads' permission.
v3.7.003 : Fix for cron_script hook changed in 3.7 Beta 4.
v3.7.004 : Bug fix for days limit when reset option is enabled.
v3.7.005 : Updated to remove potential $group variable name clash.
v3.7.006 : TMS Support added, this is currently experimental.
v3.7.007 : Threads read via the archive are now recorded. Minor permissions update as well.

[Paul M]

You must have the "Show Users Browsing Threads" option set in your vbulletin options, I have turned that on for you.

[acco]

just working on me testforum(3.7.0) & almost ready to go for the live forum but have also noticed I too suffer from the missing legend @ the bottom..

upgraded from 3.40 to the current, thing is the old skins (3.6.x) which I have detached from parent skin show legand & even switch on/off in the 3.7.0 btw the detached skins were detached prior to any hacks being install on fresh upgrade

I'm now wondering do I go over all my installed hacks or is their a small bug?

Cheers
acco

[Golzarion]

I wanted to use the hack for hide forums.... and check visitors.. I noticed some moderators share their passwords to other users in order to let them read the hide forums ...

but the history of visits won't record .... just the last visit ... so I can not find wich moderator share his /her password ...

Is there any way to record the visitors all IPs instead of the only LAST visit ? or need a different hack ?

thanks.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by acco

just working on me testforum(3.7.0) & almost ready to go for the live forum but have also noticed I too suffer from the missing legend @ the bottom..

upgraded from 3.40 to the current, thing is the old skins (3.6.x) which I have detached from parent skin show legand & even switch on/off in the 3.7.0 btw the detached skins were detached prior to any hacks being install on fresh upgrade

I'm now wondering do I go over all my installed hacks or is their a small bug?

Ive read this twice and still dont really understand what you just said.

Originally Posted by Golzarion

I wanted to use the hack for hide forums.... and check visitors.. I noticed some moderators share their passwords to other users in order to let them read the hide forums ...

but the history of visits won't record .... just the last visit ... so I can not find wich moderator share his /her password ...

Is there any way to record the visitors all IPs instead of the only LAST visit ? or need a different hack ?

I dont know of any such mod currently released.

[athlon64bit]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You must have the "Show Users Browsing Threads" option set in your vbulletin options, I have turned that on for you.

Ugh, I don't like to show users browsing threads publicly to members because they get paranoid that they are being ignored if someone they know reads their thread without replying etc.
I had this hack running on 3.6.x with "show users browsing threads" turned off. How come it must be turned on now? Will this likely always be the case for all future versions of this hack?

Thanks....

[athlon64bit]

Originally Posted by Paul M

You must have the "Show Users Browsing Threads" option set in your vbulletin options, I have turned that on for you.

Ugh, I don't like to show users browsing threads publicly to members because they get paranoid that they are being ignored if someone they know reads their thread without replying etc.
I had this hack running on 3.6.x with "show users browsing threads" turned off. How come it must be turned on now? Will this likely always be the case for all future versions of this hack? This is one of my top favourite hacks to.

Thanks....

[Kaycee123]

You can set it to whatever usergroups you want to be able to see this, if you only want admins to be able to see it, just put in that usergroup.

[KiwiInsanity]

In the popup display when you click on a name of a "who viewed", and it shows all threads viewed by the poster.

Would it be possible to have another column for "posted - yes/no" to quickly see if a member had posted or not in the threads they had viewed?
Or is that not practical? - I have no idea myself, but would really find it usefull.

I have been looking for something like that for a while for vB - but as yet haven't seen anything.

The "who viewed" is very good tho, and I have used it for a while on our forum.

Thanks Paul.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by athlon64bit

I had this hack running on 3.6.x with "show users browsing threads" turned off. How come it must be turned on now? Will this likely always be the case for all future versions of this hack? This is one of my top favourite hacks to.

I dont see how, its a requirement in the 3.6 version as well. I cant remember as far back as 3.5 now, but i'm sure it was a requirement in that as well. You must have manually edited a template to bypass it.

Originally Posted by KiwiInsanity

Would it be possible to have another column for "posted - yes/no" to quickly see if a member had posted or not in the threads they had viewed?
Or is that not practical? - I have no idea myself, but would really find it usefull.

Sorry, there are no plans to do that.

[mx2004]

good work. . .

I had this hack running, but where can i find the german translation ?

thank's

... mx2004