Add count/number of undealt moderative queue to MCP link

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DocSommer
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Add count/number of undealt moderative queue to MCP link

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I'm running a board with very less need for moderative actions. Therefore me and the other moderators/admins doesn't look in to the MCP very often leading to having some open cases without noone paying attention for a week or so every once in a while. Therefore it would be nice to realize some kind of notification feature. The first thing I was thinking about is simply to display the sum of events of moderative queue/reported messages (btw: shouldn't be the reported message beeing a part of the moderative queue tab??) next to the MCP link, like:
Moderator Control Panel (5)
....that's kind of inspired by the unread PM count display :D

I also thought about other possibilities, like mail/PM notifications but these are probably less effective for boards with mod-teams since MOD1 might look into cases that already have been solved by MOD2. All in all a real-time count display of unsolved moderative cases seems the most practicable solution to me.

Since the average phpBB community is probably a small/mid size forum I can imagine that this might be useful in many scenarios.

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When notifications are merged into 3.1 it will be possible (you may configure it for yourself) to receive notifications when something is reported/added to the moderation queue.
viewtopic.php?f=108&t=42829

But this may be useful as well for larger boards if moderators do not want to receive all of these notifications.

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Me too, still - good to know that something is already in the pipeline.

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Doc, sounds like you need this one: https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/ ... or_needed/

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Yeah that's basicly what I'm looking for. This mod seem to work but doesn't appear maintained/validated for the recent phpBB version.

Still I think it'll be great and useful to have such kind of feature "on board" by default

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DocSommer wrote:Yeah that's basicly what I'm looking for. This mod seem to work but doesn't appear maintained/validated for the recent phpBB version.

Still I think it'll be great and useful to have such kind of feature "on board" by default
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Yeah I have my forum running as a clone via localhost for testing/messing around so that's no problem - still this feature smells like common sense :D

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Yeah it's a good one. This should be included in 3.1 as default. Not sure if it is already...

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