Shoutbox Problem

Hello,

When a members typ into the shoutbox the text will display but afther 2 min refresh the browser and the text is gone

only Admin text stays in shoutbox

how can i solve this problem

noone?

nobody knows this problem?

is this new? or im stupid?

Actually, this is not a problem.  Hard to believe, isn't it. 

Dolphin 7 has never provided admins a way to delete messages from the shoutbox.  I, and others, have requested the ability for admins to delete shouts.  This is necessary for when spam, profanity, or any other undesirable material is posted in the shoutbox.

I raised the issue in Trac and in the blogs:

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/ticket/1250

http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/Common_sense_still_needs_to_prevail_at_Boonex

What did Boonex do instead of adding moderation controls to the shoutbox?   They decided to clear ALL shoutbox messages at a time interval specified in admin...... Brilliant...yes?   The shoutbox is scheduled for more sensible behavior in 7.1, but who knows when that will be.  If you read the above blog entry, you'll see that there are a few people that think its OK to have a nonsensical shoutbox because it's "non critical".  I maintain that if you are going to include a feature in a product, it may as well be useable and work properly.  Just because a few people think it's non-critical, or that they are not going to use it on their site, is not reason enough to completely ignore the fact that it simply isn't usable in a real website application.  There are quite a few website applications, where a shoutbox is quite handy.  In those cases, it makes absolutely no sense for messages to be automatically deleted every few minutes, and even less sense that the auto-delete mechanism is used in lieu of moderation controls.

Like I said in my blog post.... how hard can it be to add a delete button...

so how can i change it that the message deletes afther 1 hour or somethig

Log into your admin go to modules>shoutbox.  The setting to change is "clear message older than (secs). 

24 hrs would be 86400 (60^2*24) or to make it longer like a week it's 604800 (60^2*(24*7)).     And to make it longer just do (60^2*(24*[number of days]))

PS no comma's in your time.

ive done that but that not works! try yourself www.modelbouwcity.com

Are you sure that your site's cron job was configured and worked ?

well ive putted in cpanel.. and video only works .flv and .mpg

so i realy dont no? the host told me its working but mybe someone can register on my site and chat there? to talk aboutit

ive set it ever 5 min

Hi. I was gonna suggest that you can delete the inappropriate shoutbox messages via your database which I have done many a time on 6.1.4 by browsing the table RayShoutboxMessages and clicking the red X next to the undesired message. I just tried it in D7B8 and even though there are messages in the table RayShoutboxMessages. I discovered they are now in the table bx_shoutbox_messages so you can delete them there. Just tested it.

This however raises another point.

What does the table RayShoutboxMessages now do?

As I am sure you already know but just in case you don't, you should be very careful when making changes in your database and I would advise making a backup beforehand.

well i just want to keep the shoutbox messages not delete! its now goign to delete automatic! and also video is not working

I don't know why Boonex can't just give us a little 'X' beside all the shouts, directly in the shoutbox for inline moderation.  How hard can that be?