Welcome Mat v1.1 Freeware PCBoard 15.0 PPE New Caller Upgrade Utility! What does Welcome Mat do? This PCBoard 15.0 PPE utility will search a list of predefined names, and if a match is found it will upgrade them to the security level you decided on. Why? I was in a situation recently where I knew a handful of specific users were going to be calling my board. I did not want to pre-register all of them since A) it would have been more time than it took to write this utility and B) I wanted them to enter complete info into the address areas of the user records. But... I also wanted them (and only them) to be upgraded instantly and I also wanted them to be displayed a screen that told them I was "putting out the welcome mat" for them and that they were instantly upgraded. Well this utility will do all this. You select the usernames (up to 250) that you want to put out the welcome mat for, you select the security level that you want them upgraded to, and you customize the display file that they'll see upon their upgrade. And Welcome Mat is intelligent, it can tell if the caller has been upgraded already and if so, it "cancels operation" and the caller is not shown the display all over again. New in version 1.1 10 lines in the config file are for telling Welcome Mat the conference or conferences (up to 10) that you want to register all "matches" in. If a match is found (caller is in your upgrade list) then they will be upgraded and registered in the defined conferences. Welcome Mat will only set the R conference flag, not the X or S or any other flags. If you don't have any conferences that you want to register these matches in, then leave these lines blank, Welcome Mat will only read lines 5 through 14 for this purpose. Welcome Mat Installation. Installation of Welcome Mat is fairly straight-forward. Hopefully you are already somewhat familiar with PPE's so that I don't have to get overly verbose here. Here's how I do it... My new caller logon script looks like this, just 3 lines: !E:\PPE\WELCOMAT\WELCOMAT.PPE !E:\PPE\APPLY\I-APPLY.PPE !E:\PPE\UAI\ADDRESS.PPE The first line is Welcome Mat, the other 2 are other PPE's I use that prompt the user for city & state and other settings info. This way, if a user calls me who is not in "the list" then the other PPE's ask for the additional address and settings info anyway. Anyway... there is a number of ways you can do this. You can place the WELCOMAT.PPE in your bulletins to upgrade name matches only when the bulletin is read. It's up to you as PCB's PPE feature makes it the most flexible BBS software ever! Welcome Mat Config File. First, remember to rename the SAMPLE.CNF file to WELCOMAT.CNF! This is very important! The other files, the listing and display file can be any valid DOS filename that you decide upon, just make sure the config file reflects these new names. Here's an expanation of the SAMPLE.CNF: Line 1 = The listing of user names that you want to upgrade. Line 2 = Path/Filename of file you want displayed to upgraded callers Line 3 = The new caller security level as defined in PCBSetup Line 4 = The security level you want "name matches" upgraded to Lines 5 through 14 = conferences that you want "matches" Registered in. Welcome Mat Listing File. Here's an explanation of the sample list file included. Line 1 must be the total number of NAMES (one name per line) in the listing file, for Welcome Mat to function properly. Then lines 2 through 251 (if you are upgrading that many users, bless your heart!) will be the names of the users who will be upgraded by Welcome Mat. See my "sample list" below: 5 Meg Ryan Melanie Griffith Marisa Tomei Mel Brooks Michael Ontkean Notes Just a reminder to rename the SAMPLE.CNF to WELCOMAT.CNF. This config file must be in the same directory as the WELCOMAT.PPE file. That's about it.... Freeware This is freeware (always happy to see donations though ) so use it at your own risk. I will not be responsible for lost data or any kind of damage the use of this program may cause. It has been thoroughly tested on my system and works flawlessly here, but I am just covering my assets. Well that's about it, if you use it, enjoy it! If you have any ideas or suggestions to improve on it, let me know in Intelec's PPL forum. If I get enough suggestions on it I would be happy to make even more enhancements or improvements to Welcome Mat! And check out our MsgQuest PPE, a freeware PCBoard 15.0 PPE to insert script questionnaire answer files into your message bases, it's fully configurable. And check out our CJoin PPE, a freeware PCBoard 15.0 PPE to make the J command in PCBoard more organized. Define the conferences by either conference type OR network. And thanks to Clark Development for coming out with the PPL compiler! It is undeniably the greatest piece of work since PCBoard software! Cliff Watkins P.O. Box 212 Baldwin, NY 11510 Intelec Online (516) 868-0662 (D/S 16.8)