A collection of improvements to the XenForo Conversation system.
For large forums, please see the "Installing for large forums" section
Uninstalling removes all data!
Search Index however will require a full rebuild to delete the old data!
Features
- Adds conversation search, with options to search by recipient.
- New Conversation Permissions
- Conversation Message Edit history
- Conversation Title Edit history
- Allow conversations with no-one (default off)
Adds conversation search, with options to search by recipient
Users must be a member of the conversation to see the conversation in search results.
Does not permit moderators/administrators to see another person's conversations in search results.
Adds each conversation, and conversation message to the XenForo Search store (MySQL or Elastic Search), which may result in a larger search index.
New Conversation Permissions
Just takes away a user's "reply" button, no banners.
The reply limit is for the entire conversation, but the limit is per user group. Consider when User A & User B are members of a conversation.
User A can have a reply limit of 5. User B can have a reply limit of 10.
Once the conversation has >5 replies, User A can no longer post. Once the conversation has >10 replies, User A and User B can no longer post
Conversation Message Edit History
Adds edit history for conversation messages.
Conversation Title Edit History
Adds edit history for conversation's title, and implements a new moderator permission "Manage Conversations by anyone" to allow non-conversation starters to edit a conversation.
Allow conversations with no-one
A global option to allow users to send conversations to just themselves.
Known Issues
- Edit History does not respect/implement any silent editing window.
- This add-on likely will require a higher memory limit (ie <256mb isn't going to cut it) due to extra search results.
Installing for large forums
For large forums, please try manually adding all the columns in a single step.
This took upto 5 minutes for 1.3 million conversation messages (compressed).
SQL:
ALTER TABLE `xf_conversation_message`
ADD COLUMN `edit_count` int unsigned not null default 0,
ADD COLUMN `last_edit_date` int unsigned not null default 0,
ADD COLUMN `last_edit_user_id` int unsigned not null default 0;
ALTER TABLE `xf_conversation_master`
ADD COLUMN `edit_count` int unsigned not null default 0,
ADD COLUMN `last_edit_date` int unsigned not null default 0,
ADD COLUMN `last_edit_user_id` int unsigned not null default 0;
Permissions
- Can Reply to Conversation. - Default - If a group can start a conversation, they can reply.
- Reply Limit for Conversation. - Default - If a group can start a conversation, the reply limit is disabled (ie infinite).
- Manage Conversations by anyone. - Default - If a group can edit any conversation posts, this permission is set for them.
Manual post-installation steps - Rebuild Search Index
The add-on will report (via server errors) if conversation related content types require re-indexing.
Performance impact
- 1 extra query per conversation message posted due to indexing, and indexing itself.
Contributing features or bug fixes
Please create a Github Pull request via the "More Information" link.
Contributions
If you appreciate this addon, please consider a contribution via PayPal. Details will be provide via private conversation.
Please contact me if you wish for different licencing arrangements.
