This release introduces Project Info, a new way for your members to give ForumBot lasting context about their situations, setups, or goals. This context can optionally be submitted with each request, so ForumBot has maximum context for each session.
Details:
Members (with requisite usergroup-level permissions) can save up to 1,500 characters describing their project, current setup, ongoing goals, or background. When chatting, they toggle Use Project Info to attach that context to a question. The bot grounds its answers in their saved details. For example, a member of a home aquarium community asking "what species fits my setup?" gets a setup-specific answer when their tank parameters are saved, instead of a generic response.
Use cases vary by community: in the case cited above, aquarium keepers save tank parameters. In other communities, hobbyists can save gear lists or current project status; researchers can save their area of focus; commerce communities can save buyer profiles. The free-form text means it adapts to whatever your forum is about.
As admin, you can add your own custom instructions in addition to ForumBot's general instructions for the end-user.
Two-layer permission gating:
Master option Enable Project Editor (off by default). Flip in AdminCP > Options > ForumBot when ready to enable for your community.
Per-usergroup permissions: Use ForumBot Project Info (off by default). Grant to the usergroups who should have access (typical patterns: admins, mods, and paid tiers).
Chat (end-user) experience:
Members with the permission but no saved project see a "Set up Project Info" link in the chat panel
Members with saved project see a "Use Project Info" toggle chip plus a "Manage Project Info" link
Toggle starts OFF on every page load (clean slate per session) and the Clear chat button also resets it.
UX polish
Refreshed chat panel layout: single-column with native XF block styling
Larger welcome and intro copy for readability
Privacy notice and My shared chats links moved to small footer-of-block links
Admin / configuration
ForumBot permissions now appear in their own "ForumBot permissions" section in AdminCP > Groups & permissions (previously listed under General Permissions)
New Type column in the AI chat log: shows at a glance whether a chat used Project Info context (values: chat or project)
Various small consistency improvements in admin copy
Upgrade notes
Standard upgrade from v1.0.7 (v1.0.8 was an internal build; this is the first public release of the Project Info feature). No schema-breaking changes; existing chat logs preserved. The xf_di_forumbot_project storage table is created automatically. Project Editor is off by default. Flip the master option and grant the permission when you're ready to enable for your community.
