The addressbook allows you to add usernames and assign categories to them, which can then be used in other places such as the Usercolor settings or the Highlight settings. Categories cannot contain spaces and are all made lowercase when added/loaded from file.
The addressbook can be edited in several ways:
<Main Menu> - Channels - Addressbook)
where all entries are listed and you can add/edit/remove entries.Addressbook)
where the entry for this user can be directly added/edited/removed. There
you can just select/unselect the categories this user should be in
(although only the categories that are already used in the addressbook
are listed, so if you want to add a completely
new category, you have to add it once by manually editing an entry).In addition to the addressbook dialog and user context menu, there are also some commands to
edit the addressbook. All commands are prefixed with /ab
(e.g. /ab add <name>) or alternatively /users (e.g. /users add <name>):
add <name> - Adds a nameadd <name> <categories> - Adds a name and directly assigns it the given categories, or adds the
categories to the name if it already exists (categories are comma-seperated, without spaces)set <name> <categories> - Sets the categories for this name, adding it if necessary, replacing
any present categories for this nameremove <name> - Completely removes the given nameremove <name> <categories> - Removes the given categories from this name, but leaves
the namechange <name> <categoriesModification> - Prepend categories with +,
- or ! to add, remove or toggle the categories respectively. You can specify more than
one set of categories, for example: change test +a,b -c !d adds a and b, removes c and toggles dget <name> - Shows the categories for this nameinfo - Shows number of entries and used categoriesCategories are given as a comma-seperated list without spaces, e.g. cat1,cat2,cat3.
The following commands edit all entries at once, so they should be used with care:
renameCategory <currentName> <newName> - Renames a category, which means all occurences
of currentName are replaced with newName in all entries. This can also
be used to merge categories, if newName already exists.removeCategory <name> - Removes the category with the given name from all entries/ab add josh vipvip to the user called joshjosh's categories would now be: vip)/ab set josh rainbowjosh to rainbow, replacing
any previously associated categoriesjosh's categories would now be: rainbow)josh kind of colorful in chat, try it out with your own name Kappa)/ab add josh vipvip to the user joshjosh's categories would now be: rainbow,vip)/ab remove josh vipvip from the user josh,
keeping the other categories untouchedjosh's categories would now again be: rainbow)The following features are a bit more advanced and should only be used if you somewhat know what you're doing.
You can use this to let the moderators of your channel edit your addressbook. Depending on what commands you allow them to use, this can be a powerful tool, so make sure you keep an eye on what your moderators do.
The following settings affect the this feature (you have to change them via setting commands):
abCommandsChannel/clearSetting command to
disable the mod commands again./set abCommandsChannel #yourchannelabCommandsadd and set
commands, the setting value would be add,set (no spaces)./set abCommands add,setadd,set,remove.If you set the settings accordingly, then the mods will be able to use
e.g. !add name category to add name to your
Addressbook with the category category. Chatty will output
a message about the change, similiar to when you enter the command yourself.
It does not send a message to chat, so if you want your moderators to see an
actual response, you need to have Chatty on stream (which means the response
is also affected by stream delay of course).
This is a rather experimental feature, so it might not work reliably.
You can write Addressbook commands (one per line) to the addressbookImport.txt
file in the settings directory (enter /dir to find out what
your settings directory is). You can use any commands specified in the Commands section above, without
the /ab or /users prefix (since it's already
implied that they are Addressbook commands). For example:
add darthclide level1 change nightbot !vip set testi ignore
To perform an import, enter the /abImport command and Chatty
will read the file and execute each command as if you would have entered
it in the input box. Information about the
command results is output in the debug window (Extra - Debug window)
and the debug log file.
You can also set the abAutoImport setting (/set abAutoImport on)
and the file will be read automatically within a few seconds when it is
detected to have been changed. You have to restart Chatty after changing
the abAutoImport value for it to take effect.
To make sure no data is lost, you should not
write to the file too often, or else it may already be overwritten once
changes are detected and the file contents are read and the commands performed.
It will also not be read automatically when you on start of Chatty,
so you should only apply changes while Chatty is running or
use the /abImport command to manually read the file once after
start. If you only change the file while Chatty is running, manually reading
the file should not be necessary.
Example: mIRC script to edit the Addressbook.
You can add somewhat unique categories to a setting, which means that only one user will have that category assigned, as long as you only use Addressbook commands to apply that category (and not the context menu or Addressbook dialog).
Use /set abUniqueCats star to set the category star
as unique category. That way, only one user can have that category.
What happens is that when using an Addressbook command like
/ab add Jack star, it will first remove the star category
from all other users and then add it to Jack.
If you want to have more than one unique category, you can separate
several categories by comma: /set abUniqueCats star,gold
This is an experimental feature that adds Subscribers automatically to an Addressbook category, depending on how many months they subscribed. This works on Subscriber Notifications in chat, so you have to be in the channel at the time of the subscription for it to work.
First you need to do some configuration:
/set abSubMonthsChan #<yourchannel> - Set the
channel you want the feature enabled for/add abSubMonths <number> - Add one or several
subscription lenghts in months (repeat the command with a different
number to add more than one)/remove abSubMonths <number> - Remove a number
from the listThe months represent the categories that are automatically added. For
example if you configured the months as [3, 6, 12]:
.. subscribed for 3 months in a row! would add that
user to the 3months category.. subscribed for 4 months in a row! would add that
user to the 3months category.. subscribed for 11 months in a row! would add that
user to the 6months category.. subscribed for 20 months in a row! would add that
user to the 12months category.. just subscribed! won't do anything