Administrative and Maintenance Tools - [DBTech] Easy Article Management v1 (vB4)

Easy Article Management: What is it?
Easy Article Management (EAM) is a CMS widget and Forum block which allows Admins to see all unpublished articles from the CMS/Forum, a link to edit them, and a button to clear the system cache. It is compatible with vBulletin 4.x Suite.

Uses

A common complaint from people using vBCMS is that users create articles, yet the Administrator/Moderators have no way of knowing a new article has been created and is waiting to be published. EAM takes care of that by providing a simple CMS Widget and/or Forum Block listing all unpublished articles. Clicking on an article will take the admin directly to the editor to allow for review, editing, or publishing. Both also contain a 'Clear Cache' button to allow for front-end clearing of the system cache.

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Features

• Fully phrased for translation purposes
• Display all unpublished articles in a simple manner and on the front-end
• Clicking on a article in the list loads the article in the editor for viewing
• Ability to clear the system cache from the front-end

General Settings

• Option to display version number
• Ability to pick what usergroups can view the widget/block.
• Ability to pick what usergroups can clear the system cache.

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer which includes:

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

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[Hornstar]

Nice work Brad

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Hornstar

Nice work Brad

Thanks.

So for those who have installed it, any requests for additions?

[Kraxell]

Looks nice Only Admins can see the box?

[nerowolfe]

Installed. Nice mod.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Kraxell

Looks nice Only Admins can see the box?

It has an option in the ACP to be able to set what usergroups you want to see the box, with it defaulted to just Admins. But if you wanted moderators to see it as well, just add their usergroup in the options and they can see it as well. Cache button is the same way.

Brad

[ssslippy]

Links are not generating properly.

Link on forum page is
http://immortal-guild.net/content.php/295/edit
While actual link is
http://immortal-guild.net/content.ph...-Cleared!/edit

Also uninstall gives a blank page.

[DragonByte Tech]

Do you have vBSEO installed? Your actual link isn't formatted link a standard CMS link is the reason I ask.

I will look into the uninstall issue.

Brad

[ssslippy]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Do you have vBSEO installed? Your actual link isn't formatted link a standard CMS link is the reason I ask.

I will look into the uninstall issue.

Brad

Actually no VBSeo at all.

Url Type: Basic Friendly URLs

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by ssslippy

Links are not generating properly.

Link on forum page is
http://immortal-guild.net/content.php/295/edit
While actual link is
http://immortal-guild.net/content.php?295-Eternity-Vault-Cleared!/edit

If you are interested in fixing this, open [forum]/dbtech/eam/eam.php. On line 34 find:

        $static .= '<a href="' . $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/content.php/' . $row[$i]['nodeid'] . '/edit">' . $row[$i]['title'] . '</a><br />';

Replace with:

        $static .= '<a href="' . $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/content.php?r=' . $row[$i]['nodeid'] . '/edit">' . $row[$i]['title'] . '</a><br />';

Also uninstall gives a blank page.

To fix, open [forum]/dbtech/eam/install/uninstall.php. On line 6 find:

    $get_widget_id = $vbulletin->db->query_read("

Replace with:

    $get_widget_id = self::$db->query_first("

Sorry about that issue in the uninstaller. Also, not sure why the first code didn't work no matter what the Friendly URL setting was. I know an issue with the CMS friendly URL script that I reported has been fixed for 4.1.12, so once that's out, I'll be able to generate proper CMS links no matter what.

Brad