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Topic: Timeout for editing own post

Posted By: Andrigues
Subject: Timeout for editing own post
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 6:05pm

Hi, I have searched and checked through many topics but failed to find what I was looking for. New to WWF Wink

1. How am I able to set a timeline so that members can only edit their post within a stipulated time frame?

2. How can a Moderator edit a post and not to display "Edited by" at the bottom?

3. Whenever a post is made, the Emoticons, when selected, will appear after the last alphabet in the post (PM too), how can I improve on that? Just like WWF, when u select an Emoticon, it will appear at where the cursor is.

Thanks in advance.

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Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 6:18pm

Andrigues wrote:

Hi, I have searched and checked through many topics but failed to find what I was looking for. New to WWF Wink

1. How am I able to set a timeline so that members can only edit their post within a stipulated time frame?

I'm not sure that this would be possible. If you did not want users to be able to edit or delete their own posts, then my advice would be to remove that option in your admin panel under the particular group that you want it to apply to. I tend to allow users editing rights after so many posts, but not deletion rights - it's up to you

2. How can a Moderator edit a post and not to display "Edited by" at the bottom?

In forum files find edit_post.asp and on these lines -

'******************************************
'***      Edit Post Update    ***
'******************************************


'If we are to show who edit the post and time then contantinet it to the end of the message
If blnShowEditUser Then
   strMessage = strMessage & "<edited><editID>" & strLoggedInUsername & "</editID><editDate>" & internationalDateTime(Now()) &  "</editDate></edited>"
End If

Change to

'If blnShowEditUser Then
   'strMessage = strMessage & "<edited><editID>" & strLoggedInUsername & "</editID><editDate>" & internationalDateTime(Now()) &  "</editDate></edited>"
'End If

The ' stops it from working those lines, alternately you could just remove them, but I would keep them and check it

3. Whenever a post is made, the Emoticons, when selected, will appear after the last alphabet in the post (PM too), how can I improve on that? Just like WWF, when u select an Emoticon, it will appear at where the cursor is.

Thanks in advance.

There is no reason why this should happen Wink

as I've just posted a LOL

within the lines where I want it to appear

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Posted By: Andrigues
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 6:35pm

Hey Dude, thank you so much for the fast reply.

To stop members from editing their post will be rather harsh. And to allow them to edit it after a couple of days will be bad too. I just edited a member's post and he re-edited it and removed all his bad words.....lol. I know that some forums has the cut-off time limit for editing of own post (10 mins), but well, I have to embrace what we have here. Wink

With regards to the Emoticons issue, it is happening in our forum. I would be nice if it is like WWF...

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 6:41pm

Your welcome Andrigues Thumbs Up

I'm only guessing on the editing posts bit (so others may be able to give a better answer) but the hiding who edited what works, and perhaps allow users who have say posted 20 times then to edit posts. It depends why they need to edit them? A spelling error is one thing - but it depends on why they edit them too

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Posted By: Andrigues
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 6:49pm

Bad word not cos of spelling, cos he insulted others... Smile

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 6:51pm

Yep - that's why it is better to
1. Have good moderators
2. Prevent them from editing posts until they behave properly LOL

You might want to check your bad word filter and add as many as possible as I'm sure there are a lot of swear words around Wink

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Posted By: Andrigues
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 6:56pm

Done lots already...lol.

Anyway, I have done up as you had suggested but is still wondering on the emoticons issue.... Unhappy

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 10 June 2009 at 7:11pm

Are you using WWF and if so what version?

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Posted By: Andrigues
Date Posted: 06 July 2009 at 5:24pm

Sorry for late reply, I was appointed to take over the duties of moderating and administer the forum. How do I find the version it is currently on? Did some checks but nothing...

You can try what I mean on the emoticons issues here is my link

http://www.mark-x.com/forum/default.asp" rel="nofollow - http://www.mark-x.com/forum/default.asp

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 06 July 2009 at 6:56pm

The bottom of every page of your forum says web wiz forums 8.05.

8.05 is about 3 years old, try upgrading to the latest release to see if that fixes the issue.

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Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 06 July 2009 at 7:11pm

Andrigues wrote:

Sorry for late reply, I was appointed to take over the duties of moderating and administer the forum. How do I find the version it is currently on? Did some checks but nothing...

You can try what I mean on the emoticons issues here is my link

http://www.mark-x.com/forum/default.asp" rel="nofollow - http://www.mark-x.com/forum/default.asp

As Bruce says you are running a really old version now - and there have been many advancements and changes. However before you jump in straight away with an upgrade (even though I think you should do it too Thumbs Up

) you should be aware that the free version of the software does have some restrictions (such as the number of private messages, etc) so check what you have got now and make sure that you do alienate 2000 forum members in one hit
I would advise that you do upgrade but go with the premium version if you want to keep the extra goodies, and also upgrading will give you far better security and similar benefits. I know you will love the new looks and feel of the latest version of Web Wiz Forums and I've only added my bit here just to give you a heads up on some changes

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Posted By: Andrigues
Date Posted: 07 July 2009 at 6:05pm

Thx guys, I believe our site is a premium site. The owner paid for another 3 years.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 July 2009 at 7:10am

The site is running the free version and you would not pay for a license for 3 years.

I think you maybe getting confused with web hosting, and you would only get the Premium edition included with the hosting if you had a Web Wiz hosting solution.

Looking up the IP for the web site it is not one of our IP's so the web site is not hosted by Web Wiz.

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Posted By: Andrigues
Date Posted: 29 July 2009 at 3:09am

Hi Guys, I apologized for this late reply.

Yes, it is confirmed that we are using a free version. Our Admin is looking into the updating as of now.

1 concern we have is that the new updated version can only have 5 PM per member, can it be increased without paying?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 29 July 2009 at 10:41am

You would need to purchase the Premium Edition if you wanted the extra features

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