It will be part of Elastic Search Essentials v2.0.0, and will also allow searching of deleted/moderated content without degrading search for normal users. I will also update Report Improvements, Conversation Improvements, Word Count search to support it.
This major overhaul should be finished in ~2 weeks.
The kick feature in Essentials is actually reasonably complex. It adds a graphic showing they are kicked, the ability to invite them (showing how many you can invite and still re-invite kicked users), alerts on kicks and invites, and some other details.
I've successfully removed the Likes and Searching from Conversation Essentials to use the versions in Conversation Improvements and I'm considering reducing Conversation Essentials in price to compensate.
I'm in the process of updating bits & pieces, and some bugfixing. This includes updating the export to thread feature so it handles attachments, and a more convenient 'export entire conversation' rather than individual posts.
I have another the free add-on Conversation Improvements By Xon, which contains feature overlap for Search and Likes. It's version of search is more complete, and has a simpler (but just as functional) implementation for Likes.
I plan to bundle latest version of Conversation Improvements with the next version of Conversation Essentials. The only difference will be there will be two add-ons, rather than 1 but it will have the same functionality. With Conversation Improvements, you'll get more functionality.
The major functional changes are:
- You need to have Conversation Essentials installed to turn off Search from Conversation Improvements
- To turn off Likes, revoke the relevant permission. The global option to disable Conversation Likes will be removed.
- Most complex template modifications are pushed into templates with a simpler template modification.
- Extra add-ons based off this one will be completely broken due to backend structure change.
- Conversation Essential's "Conversation Message Like" permission will be migrated to Conversation Improvements "Conversation Message Like".
- Conversation Essential's "Edit Any Conversation" permission will be migrated to Conversation Improvements "Manage Any Conversation".
- Some Conversation Essential's options will be tweaked.
Floyd R Turbo
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So there will still be 2 addons, it's just that if you have ConvEss then you have to also have ConvImp installed, correct?
I like what I see so far
I like what I see so far
Sorry about the confusion.
Currently having both installed causes some wonky issues, but I'm working on fixing that.
I'm attempting to stop having two separate codebases which do the same thing, slightly differently.
Correct.
Currently having both installed causes some wonky issues, but I'm working on fixing that.
ConvEss will require ConvImp. Functionality that is free in ConvImp will remain free.
I'm attempting to stop having two separate codebases which do the same thing, slightly differently.
The next version hasn't been released yet, some other breakfix work has come up before I could finish the next version Conversation Essentials.I'm a little confused here
I have Conversation Essentials installed without Conversation Improvements, but I still have the like feature. I also still see the Conversation Essentials search templates on the Template Modification list.
Freelancer
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I have a suggestion for ConvEss: split a conversation (aka "move to new Conversation"). My users tend to just start a totally different new topic in the same conversation. I would like to have the ability to inline-mod select the conversation replies and move them to a NEW conversation where I can give a new conversation title.
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RobinHood
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Any chance of adding live updates to conversation messages with this Xon? Or even adding something like the message bar that appears on threads to let users know there's new replies?
Conversation are in desperate need of a push towards real time chat functionality
This seems to be the only add on that does it: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/wmtech-realtime-chat-conversations.4047/
(Which seems to work okay to it's credit, upon a quick demo, but I already have a licence for Conversation Essentials I'd like to make use out of, and live updates is a real conversation essential these days)
Conversation are in desperate need of a push towards real time chat functionality
This seems to be the only add on that does it: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/wmtech-realtime-chat-conversations.4047/
(Which seems to work okay to it's credit, upon a quick demo, but I already have a licence for Conversation Essentials I'd like to make use out of, and live updates is a real conversation essential these days)
wmtech
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I just want to mention that our Realtime Chat Conversation add-on is fully compatible with Conversation Essentials and can be used together without any problems.
XxUnkn0wnxX
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thinking of getting this since this has exactly what I need but it is still missing 1 feature I really need and there isn't any current add-ones that do this most of them have become unmaintained and are no longer working..
@Xon will you ever implement a feature for Admin/Moderators only to have access to read anyones conversations? as in Eg you go to search and there is a tab "search user's conversations" or type in specific users in search:
User1, User2
then show all conversations from User1 & User 2
or simply go to the user's profile and click on a button that assigns the admin/moderator to view and read all that specific users conversations.
I really loved this plugin here: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/th-conversations-access-by-themehouse.2357/
but it no longer works
but as you can see each Moderator Or Admin can assign specific user inboxes and he can keep checking those specific users inboxes until he decides to remove them from his Conversation Tab View.
I really need something like this but there isn't anything out there that I can find that is still being maintained..
@Xon will you ever implement a feature for Admin/Moderators only to have access to read anyones conversations? as in Eg you go to search and there is a tab "search user's conversations" or type in specific users in search:
User1, User2
then show all conversations from User1 & User 2
or simply go to the user's profile and click on a button that assigns the admin/moderator to view and read all that specific users conversations.
I really loved this plugin here: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/th-conversations-access-by-themehouse.2357/
but it no longer works
but as you can see each Moderator Or Admin can assign specific user inboxes and he can keep checking those specific users inboxes until he decides to remove them from his Conversation Tab View.I really need something like this but there isn't anything out there that I can find that is still being maintained..
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@XxUnkn0wnxX Conversation Essentials does not support that feature.
Please do not consider such a feature within this add-on. Otherwise we would have to uninstall and could no longer use it, because we've an obligation to not read private conversations between users. Thanks.
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