BANNERS + RC11-12

Uploader should be able to view Banners in full after upload or for editing

image attached is 400 x 120 pixel (original size)

Thx Anton.

ad 4. OK, thx for the explanation

ad 5. That is not a good solution. An advertiser should be able to see to ''Full Banner'' after upload before publishing the banner. Is it possible to do change it like that?

1. Another SMALL but important BUG:

Choosing pay per Day the caption for Number of Units field ''Days'' is OK. But this should change if user selects ''pay per impression'' to Impressions AND ''pay per clicks'' to Clicks.

Alternativly please write ''Number of Days/Impressions/Clicks'', but that would look quite unprofessional. 

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2. Is some kind of moderation/approval of banners by admin planned? Right now people could advertise anything they want... not that good

Another BUG found in Banners Module, lets call it the ''Zero Pay Bug''

• Free Mode for Banner disabeld
• discount set for day 1 - 3 to 100% discount (I dont want free banners but want to give the users the possibility to have free banners for three days each)
• banner is in cart for price 0 €
• checkout from cart brings error 500

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Administration of the Banners is a pain, as they are not visible in the dashboard main listings. Imagine you have some hundreds of banners...

Very helpful would be some enhancements and they would make the module much better:

• additional sort orders by BANNER blocks
• additional columns with tiny previews of the banners in dashboard listings
• better search. right now it is not clear what the banner search is for

Creating TEXT BANNERS needs a lot of patience and user-experience, atm nearly unusable  

• Admin can define the size of a Textbanner, good.
• lets say 400x120 pixel
• A user wants to create this Textbanner and for that he has the default text-editor. Not more. 
• How should the user know how many letters are left? And how the created Banner will look?
• A certain kind of wysiwyg input-mask is urgently needed, without this mask Textbanner Blocks are more or less unusable.

Thx for your reply Anton. To fullfill the mission ''Make the Banner Module Great Again *g '' some more suggestions from my side. Una urgently needs an extended Banner Module.

1. Banner Block Limit. Possibility to Limit the amount of ACTIVE Banners per single Block by admin. 
2. Pipeline per Block. If the set amount of active Banners in a block is reached, newly added Banners go to this pipeline. Banners get some kind of pipeline-rank, visible for the user. Banners in Pipeline replace free Bannerspace according to its rank in the pipeline.
3. Banner Express Button (charged extra) to override the Pipeline Rank. Interesting for users with urgent needs.
4. List/table of Blocks showing the Banner Block, the amount of active Banners and the amount of Banners waiting in the pipeline. Can be set visible for users.
5. Multiselect Blocks in add banner menue. Right now only one block can be selected (or all, actually not working)
6. Free AND paid Banners. Atm only free OR paid banner mode is possible. Change to Free AND paid banners. Possible settings could be: 
   1. Set by single block
   2. Show paid banners xy times as often than free ones
   3. Show free banners only, when no paid banners are active. 
   4. Rank free banners BEHIND paid ones, pipeline version as decribed above.
7. Free AND Paid BLOCKS according to free AND paid banners. Admin sets up the amount of allowed free banners by block.
8. Banner Approval by admin/mod.  Atm all banners are published immediatly. Change settings to ''needs approval''. Notify admin and admin/mod has to approve
9. LIMIT duration of FREE Banners. Possibility to limit Free banners, clicks, views and day limit. Set by admin for each single block.
10. LIMIT duration of PAID Banners. Same as free.

BUG - GHOSTBLOCK in studio/banners/prices

Tested with events module. After deleting the events mod and reinstallation of it, the ''old'' banner blocks created for the event module pages in studio/banner/prices were not deleted together with the uninstallation of the event module.

Result: 

• New banner blocks on same pages in studio/banner/blocks are denied with message ''block allready exists''
• ''Old Banners'' of these banner blocks are homeless and still listed in banner administration, they would need some kind of relocation button.
• Creating of similar types in studio/banner/types is not possible, message ''type allready exist''

Something still conflicts with the studio/settings/cache --> JScache setting.

Banner Module doesn't work properly with JScache enabled

TEXT BANNER PROBLEMS

• Creating a text Banner
• write caption, OK
• write the text, OK
• preview --> 
  • caption shown
  • text NOT shown
• create the banner, OK
  • caption & text shown

Notification to admin for banner aproval is missing

the approval itself works fine, thy 4 that important modification

What about the TEXT BANNER Problem mentioned in the previous post?

What about the studio/settings/cache --> JScache setting mentioned in the previous post? 

I use the FROALA editor and YES, the BUG with the textbanners is a FROALA thing. I just tested with ''froala disabled''. Now the procedure create-preview-post of creating textbanners is ok.

So How will You solve this issue?

JS CACHE:

Enabling JS Cache Banner mod does not work.  tested FireFox and chrome  again --> no calendar popup, no reaction on preview button, no textfield to enter text +++ the same results as I posted this problem some days before

As we also have discussed the problem with JS Cache and my bookmarks module, we need some kind of ''interim'' solution, that means ''JS cache disabled'' in studio/settings/cache and after that a real bugfixing, no matter WHAT the source of this BUG is. The modules or the corefiles... only You know :)

May be You should describe the problems with ''JS Cache enabled'' on the module pages of banners and bookmarks. So everybody saves time ;)

Any Solution for the PREVIEW TEXTBANNER BUG as described above (13 Nov 2018, TEXT BANNER PROBLEMS)?

Thx, this PREVIEW TEXTBANNER BUG  is solved :)

NEXT PROBLEM: Free Banner for users is a great feature! But right now, users are able to add FreeBanners unlimited in duration or number of impressions /clicks. A desaster on a productive site! Imagine dozens of banners set to hundreds of days or thenthousands of clicks/impressions.... 

To limit the amount of banners per user can be easily set in the permissions (I have set 1 banner every 720 hours=30 days)

--> How To limit the duration in days or number of clicks/impressions as ''preset value'' when a user creates a free banner?  We need something in studio/banners/setting like: If Free Banners enabled, then set duration to xy days, or amount xy of clicks/impressions