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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Xarcell on March 08, 2011, 06:04:37 PM

Title: Some Questions About Some Of Your Mods...
Post by: Xarcell on March 08, 2011, 06:04:37 PM
Ok, first question is about your Anonymous Boards mod.

1.| If you set a board to Anonymous, does that mean all posts are automatically Anonymous? I need an option so that a user can choose while posting, to post as Anonymous, or not. Does it have this?

Second question is about your Custom Field Permissions.

2.| It says "Adds permisssions for viewing/editing custom profile fields". Does that mean, as admin I can select which groups can see the the custom fields? I need the ability to hide those fields from everyone except a certain group.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Some Questions About Some Of Your Mods...
Post by: live627 on March 08, 2011, 11:32:34 PM
Quote from: Xarcell on March 08, 2011, 06:04:37 PM
If you set a board to Anonymous, does that mean all posts are automatically Anonymous?
Yes, that is the driving reason behind that mod
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I need an option so that a user can choose while posting, to post as Anonymous, or not. Does it have this?
It has that ability, but only for admins.[1]
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Second question is about your Custom Field Permissions.

2.| It says "Adds permisssions for viewing/editing custom profile fields". Does that mean, as admin I can select which groups can see the the custom fields?
Yes.
 1. Admins can also unanonomise any anonymous post by editing it and checking "Do not make this post anonymous" lol
Title: Re: Some Questions About Some Of Your Mods...
Post by: Xarcell on March 08, 2011, 11:49:06 PM
Ok, I will most likely purchase your custom field permission mod.

With Anonymous mod, any way you can add the feature for use to select anonymous post while posting? Besides the admin. In my forum, a member may want to make a confession, but too embarrassed to if everyone sees who posted it.

Also, when it says anonymous posting, does that include topic creation? Or just replies?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Some Questions About Some Of Your Mods...
Post by: live627 on March 09, 2011, 12:03:01 AM
I think I read you wrong. Sorry it's midnight here.

Admins have the ability to *not* be anonymous. Everyone is anonymous by default in that board. Admins have the ability to show their poster info.

Anonymous messages includes both topics and replies.
Title: Re: Some Questions About Some Of Your Mods...
Post by: Xarcell on March 09, 2011, 11:11:05 AM
Then I would like to make a request.

How about a on the fly option to "not" be anonymous for everyone, but just the admin?

I don't know the best way to create something like this programming wise, but I alway felt it's best to have an checkbox inside the "Attachments and other options" that you can check to post as anonymous. Programming wise, it could be anonymous, or maybe even better if it switched the member id of the post to another member id(an admin created default/anonymous user).

I don't know really which would be best. Just tossing out ideas...
Title: Re: Some Questions About Some Of Your Mods...
Post by: live627 on March 10, 2011, 12:37:33 AM
The typo had me against a wall for awhile ahah. So everyone should get the option to show themselves when posting in an anonymous board. Don't see why not :)

Posting as an alternate user? I know Karl made one for SMF 1.1 back in the day... don't remember who he gave it to too keep it alive though :/
Title: Re: Some Questions About Some Of Your Mods...
Post by: live627 on March 10, 2011, 05:14:45 PM
Implementing your request would've been a simple one-line template tweak had it not been for two bugs I found.
Posted on March 10, 2011, 05:02:42 PM

Updated to 1.1.

From the changelog:
+ Anyone can choose to show their poster info when making a new post in an anonymous section
! Minor type that didn't adversely affect anything on the user's side
! All postings in all boards got anonomised regardless of whether the setting was enabled or not
Title: Re: Some Questions About Some Of Your Mods...
Post by: Xarcell on March 10, 2011, 05:21:09 PM
Quote from: live627 on March 10, 2011, 05:14:45 PM
Implementing your request would've been a simple one-line template tweak had it not been for two bugs I found.
Posted on March 10, 2011, 05:02:42 PM

Updated to 1.1.

From the changelog:
+ Anyone can choose to show their poster info when making a new post in an anonymous section
! Minor type that didn't adversely affect anything on the user's side
! All postings in all boards got anonomised regardless of whether the setting was enabled or not

The two bugs have been resolved right?
Title: Re: Some Questions About Some Of Your Mods...
Post by: live627 on March 10, 2011, 08:51:59 PM
Oh yes. That's the reason behind a changelog: to document the changes made :)