Conversation Improvements by Xon 2.4.6

[Xon]

In general, I have left all my free add-ons hosted on xenforo.com's resource manager as I simply didn't feel like rehosting >80 add-ons.

I assume it's supported?

Yes.

 

[ivp]

How to disable displaying conversation messages in User profile/Postings tabs?

Users have impression that everybody can see their private messages in their profiles.

 

[nocte]

Users have impression that everybody can see their private messages in their profiles.

Yeah, that might be the case. On the other hand it would be inconsistent with other search results to exclude conversation messages in one particular search.

I'd suggest that @Xon adds a message like "This a conversation you are in. Only participants can see this search result." to the conversation search result

 

[Xon]

You can modify the template search_result_conversation_message to have a banner like that easily enough.

 

[ivp]

@Xon how to completely remove conversation messages from User profile/Postings tab?

 

[Xon]

That isn't currently supported.

 

[ivp]

Is it safe to surround sv_convimprov_search_result_conversation_message template code with:

<xf:if is="$template != 'member_view'">
...
</xf:if>

 

[ivp]

Now seeing that conversation messages are visible when globally searching, too.

I think conversation search should be limited to /conversation URLs only and /search/?type=conversation_message

Mixing public and private results is not good practice from privacy point of view.

 

[nocte]

Mixing public and private results is not good practice from privacy point of view.

What about private forums then? You always see what you have access to. I think a notice like mentioned above should be enough in order to not make some people concerned about privacy.

 

[ivp]

Never seen website displaying results from private conversations in global search.

 

[VBX Co]

Never seen website displaying results from private conversations in global search.

The conversation messages are still private - they only show to you, the person who is involved in those messages, in your search results - credit members with the smarts to work that out.

 

[Mr. Jinx]

Now seeing that conversation messages are visible when globally searching, too.

There is an option to disable this by default. I have to look which option, can't remember, but I know I have set this for my forum.

 

[nocte]

There is an option to disable this by default. I have to look which option, can't remember, but I know I have set this for my forum.

It seems, that the Conversations Essentials addon is needed for this as an additional requirement. It has this option:

 

[Mr. Jinx]

Found it. It's part of Search Improvements:

 

[ivp]

Awesome, that did the trick. Many thanks @Mr. Jinx!

 

[Xon]

I had forgotten about that feature of Search Improvement.

That would be my recommended away as trying to exclude the result via a template mod will produce silly looking results.

 

[ivp]

Glad we found the solution. Many thanks for your awesome add-ons @Xon!

 

[Xon]

Xon updated Conversation Improvements by Xon with a new update entry:

2.3.0 - Maintenance update

• Require XenForo 2.2+
• Improve handling of leaving/joining conversation and the impact on search.
  This will require re-indexing conversation messages.
  • When a user joins a conversation, ensure they can search that conversation
  • If a user leaves a conversation, do not return it in search results.

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[TheGroove]

Not seeing but just want to confirm, is there any way to prevent a user in a specific group from receiving any and all conversations?

 

[nocte]

is there any way to prevent a user in a specific group from receiving any and all conversations?

I think you are looking for the "Receive new conversations" permission, which is XF core (no addon needed):