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  Conversation Improvements by Xon

  A collection of improvements to the XenForo Conversation system.
  About this resource

  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.
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