CPG Dragonfly™ CMS

An enhanced version of CPG-BB for search, moderation and archiving.
It is an upgrade for your existing CPG-BB Forums - BACKUP first!
If you have any uncertainty at all, test on a test site and database copy.

Sub-forums have been implemented at both forum and archive level.

Deleted topics/posts can now be retained in a special forum where admins/moderators can elect to permanently delete or recycle them.

Topic edit, if allowed, is restricted to the last post (other than moderators) with an admin option to allow edit for all posts.

Captcha option provided for guest posting.

Admin options to display users online now (and for the day) on the forums index, as well as online status within posts.

Enhanced search features include "Forum Watchlist", "Topic Watchlist", "Last 24 Hours" and "Last 40 Topics" (although that one is restricted to admin for now). Users can also manage their personal Watchlist, on an individual and bulk basis.

Search listings for topics also include topic icons - handy for those using icons to denote topic status. Topic icons are also now cached, saving a query.

Moderator control panel now returns to the panel page on which you started when you carried out actions like archive, delete, lock and unlock. You also now have the ability to "mark" or "unmark" all topics on a page.

The major enhancement is Archiving of older posts - in effect, you get the benefits of "pruning" without losing your topics/posts and without loss of linking from the search engine indexes.

• archives can be setup in admin, much the same as pruning.
• auto-archiving uses a new bbforum_archive table.
• an archived topic has its posts copied to new bbposts_archive and bbposts_text_archive tables and an archive flag added to the bbtopics table.
• once archived, the original posts are deleted from the bbposts tables and the words table is updated.
• announcement and poll topics are not archived in admin archiving.
• moderator panel now provides for batch archiving of topics within each forum and this area will archive announcements and polls.
• polls and attachments are preserved in archived posts.
• viewtopic checks if topic is archived or not and displays the relevant tables, with an "Archived Topic" note at the top - active topics have an archive icon so that individual topics can be archived by moderators.
• archived topics/posts cannot be individually moderated.
• archived topics can be "Revived" on a one-off basis - a link allows auto-generation of a new topic in the active system, referencing the archived topic and denoted by [revived] in the subject line.
• once revived, the revival link reverts to a reference link to the new active topic.
• topic revival adds the new topic id to a field in the old topic's table for tracking purposes.
• if archives exist, Forum Index provides a link to archives and number of topics/posts in brackets.
• link provided to an Archives index of forums containing archives.
• forums with archives, and archived topics, are clearly labeled, including pagetitles and cross-linking where appropriate.

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Download:
Only 5 images provided
- themes/default/images/forums/icon_mini_watch.gif
- themes/default/images/forums/icon_offline.gif
- themes/default/images/forums/icon_online.gif
- themes/default/images/forums/topic_archive.gif
- themes/default/images/forums/lang_english/revive_topic.gif
- readme.txt has instructions to edit images.cfg
Otherwise includes ALL template (default), admin, module, language and includes files.
Readme.txt lists all the new files.

Install:
Copy all files within the download, upgrade module through admin » modules.

Uninstall:
Simply copy all original 9.2.1 files back to your site - will revert to normal operations and the archived data will no longer be available to you (just as if they were pruned).
New tables will remain but won't influence anything.
New tables and extra fields are listed in readme.txt.
(archive reversal will be provided later)

Operation:
Bulk archiving is heavy on query load - test what your server can handle with small bites.
Viewtopic uses an extra, but simple and fast, query so should have negligible impact.
Archived topics will not appear in normal forum search - until an alternative is assessed, I suggest you provide a Google site search link.

ToDo:
archive search - needs careful consideration.
archive reversal - much later.
annualized archives - also later.