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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 03:15 am |
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TVDinner Go UCONN! 
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One of my members unchecked his PM's in his preferences and now even I (the admin) can not send him a PM. So they sent one to me, and then disabled the option so i can not respond. Shouldn't the admin be able to send a PM to anyone, even if they have manually disabled the option.??? ------------------- Next - how do I disable the ability for anyone to be invisible. Where exactly in the code is it so it can be commented out if I choose to do that please. thanks
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 03:26 am |
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Jim I work here 
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Nope. You can ban them or delete them or give them an unusual custom title. Admins can see invisible people, about the only natural override.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 03:39 am |
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TVDinner Go UCONN!
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Jim on my old wowbb board we WERE able to "comment" out the ability for someone to check to be invisible. We simple used the standard to comment out code to remove the option and then people did not even see the option in their Preferences. I have to think that you can still do that now if you tell us where.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 04:10 am |
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Jim I work here
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I didn't actually read the second part of your post, the invisible comment I made was a coincidence. You would have to run a SQL query afterward to turn everyone on again.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 04:16 am |
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TVDinner Go UCONN!
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can you assist me with this please if possible.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 04:23 am |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder 
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TVDinner wrote: Shouldn't the admin be able to send a PM to anyone, even if they have manually disabled the option.??? Hi TVD, All you need do is "Become this user" and switch their PMs on again. Then log back in as you and send them one. The same with any other of their settings. regards, Martin.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 04:25 am |
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TVDinner Go UCONN!
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martin_wynne wrote: TVDinner wrote:Shouldn't the admin be able to send a PM to anyone, even if they have manually disabled the option.??? I know that - not what I was asking. Thanks
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 04:33 am |
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Jim I work here
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TVDinner wrote: can you assist me with this please if possible. This guy must really be eating at you. I'm in there now give me a minute-
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 04:35 am |
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TVDinner Go UCONN!
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not really - i just do not want anyone to be able to be invisible. This is something I always have and forgot to set up on the watch freeks site
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 07:12 am |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder
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TVDinner wrote: not really - i just do not want anyone to be able to be invisible. This is something I always have and forgot to set up on the watch freeks site Hi TVD, I'm invisible on this board and every board I join. I won't join a board where I can't be invisible. On my own board, everyone is invisible -- I removed the Who's Online feature entirely. On the other hand, I always use my real name, and encourage my members to do the same. "RadioBreakfast" could be anybody, so it hardly matters whether he is visible or not. Strange how different folks see things differently -- it must make Jim tear his hair out at times.  Martin.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 11:37 am |
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Jim I work here
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I still have lots of hair but it has gone mostly gray. Picking out new features is always a task also, I try to add the ones that less than 20% of members are going to hate.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 11:59 am |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder
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Jim wrote: I try to add the ones that less than 20% of members are going to hate. It would be interesting to have a poll on which features introduced in 1.17 have turned out to be the most welcome in hindsight. There's no question for me -- View Single Post is brilliant and worth all the others put together. It has allowed me to do lots of things with UltraBB that I couldn't do before. But it took me a while to realise how useful it is. In fact I created two versions of View Single Post for my purposes -- see: http://85a.co.uk/forum/view_postx.php?post_id=5912 http://85a.co.uk/forum/view_post.php?post_id=5912 regards, Martin.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 12:05 pm |
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TVDinner Go UCONN!
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"view single post" is a great feature for Ultra, and something that Vbulletin (and i believe phpbb3) already had. so adding it to ultra added a feature that many new members coming from other existing forums were used to having. very positive.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 12:44 pm |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder
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Yes, View Single Post is available on vBulletin. But not on phpBB3 or IP.Board, so UltraBB is ahead of the field there. Martin.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 03:01 pm |
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Jim I work here
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I tried them both side by side (view single post), I truly like the Ultra version better. The side menu selector is an Ultra exclusive though.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 03:06 pm |
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TVDinner Go UCONN!
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Jim wrote: I tried them both side by side (view single post), I truly like the Ultra version better. so do I
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19th, 2010 03:12 pm |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder
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Jim wrote: The side menu selector is an Ultra exclusive though. It's great, but introduced in 1.15 (I believe), so not eligible for this poll.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 12:54 pm |
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TVDinner Go UCONN!
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Hi Jim Now that you have done this on my board I have a question for you. On future versions can this be something that you can add to the admin section so you don't have to be bothered with doing it. Just a simple option for the admin to choose if they want to turn on or off the ability for the entire board to have the option to be invisible or not. A simple check box and then an admin cold decide if they want to allow their members this option of not. I am not taking away the ability for people to leave this on!!!! Just giving the admin the option to make the decision which way they want to go on their board. Last edited on Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 01:29 pm by TVDinner |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 01:05 pm |
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Jim I work here
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C'mon boys, play nice or I'm going to send you to your rooms... Allow invisible browsing will be on by default but will be an admin option. If I forget to add it just remind me in beta testing and I'll add it. It's a quickie.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 23rd, 2010 01:28 pm |
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TVDinner Go UCONN!
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Jim wrote: C'mon boys, play nice or I'm going to send you to your rooms... Thank you sir. The more you add to the admin panel, the less you have to do for people in the future. We are just a few members, but as this software continues to grow there will be more people asking questions like this and others. less work for you if you have the option in the admin panel and not something you have to manually do. also I adjusted my post above. Thanks Jim.
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