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    Starred Posts feature added

    Overview:

    This product is designed to give your users the ability to create/manage a list of starred/favorite posts so they can easily locate them in the future. Some users may have limited time when browsing your site, and wish to earmark posts to which they will want to reply later when they have more time. This product will allow them to tag these posts and easily find them later.

    Upon installing the product a new table is added to your database to store the data pertaining to the user lists, and a new column is added to your user table to store the number of posts in each user's list.

    Users with permission to use the system will see a star icon in the postbits just above the signature and to the far right that allows them to add the posts to their list. Once a post has been added, a checkmark appears next to the star icon to indicate that that post is already on their list, and if this is clicked the post is removed from the list. The icons have tooltips to indicate what will happen upon clicking them, as do all buttons and checkboxes used by the system.



    In the search results and forum thread listings, an icon is shown to users to indicate which threads have posts in their starred list, and the icon has a tooltip indicates how many posts in the thread are in the user's starred list.



    Under the "Quick Links" menu, users who have permission to use the system, will find a link titled "My Starred Posts" which will take them to a custom page which displays their starred posts and allow for posts to be removed. Each post has detailed information regarding the post, with links to the forum, thread and to the post itself. There are controls that allow the user to select posts for removal from the list, and to expand the post content so they can review the entire post(s) right there and to reply to the post with a quote. Post content can be expanded/collapsed one a per post basis, or all at once. Each postbit can be collapsed as well.



    Users who have a limit imposed on the number of posts in their list will be shown additional information in the redirect messages that tell them how many additional posts they can add to their list. Once a user has added the maximum number of posts in their list, they will no longer see the star icon in the postbits with threads to add posts...they will only see the icon fro removing posts from their list.

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    The following Usergroups cannot use this feature: Banned, Ghosts, Quarantined, Registered User, Unregistered / Not Logged In, Users Awaiting Email Confirmation, Users Awaiting Moderation.

    Updated 01-02-2017:
    A current limit of 25 'starred' posts has been established for all other Usergroups, (this MOD adds a new table to the database, so space usage will be impacted to some degree) with the following Usergroups exempted from this limit: Administrator, Forum Owner, Moderator, Super Moderator, Retired Administrator, Retired Moderator, and all Paid Subscription Levels.

    Limits for each permitted Usergroup are set as follows:

    Unlimited (Forum Owner, Administrator)
    400 (Super Moderator, Moderator)
    300 (Retired Administrator, Retired Moderator)
    250 (Paid Subscription Level VII)
    225 (Paid Subscription Level VI)
    200 (
    Paid Subscription Level V)
    175 (Paid Subscription Level IV)
    150 (Paid Subscription Level III)
    125 (Paid Subscription Level II
    100 (Paid Subscription Level I)
    075 (Valued Contributor)
    050 (Kubuntu Developer, Kubuntu Team, Ubuntu Forum Staff)
    025 (Established)

    Note: A usergroup in more than one list or a user in multiple usergroups, the largest limit given will be in effect.
    Last edited by Snowhog; Jan 02, 2017, 02:22 PM. Reason: Limits established for permitted Usergroups
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