Pronto v4.2.2

A Discord bot developed for the City of Auckland Cadet Unit, built with discord.js v12.

Named after the Radio Appointment Title of a Signaller, Pronto is specifically designed for community groups, featuring attendance tracking and many other useful commands!

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• About
  • Features
  • Commands List
  • JSDoc Documentation
  • Versioning
• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Dependencies
  • Instructions

About

Features

• !leave and !leavefor commands to submit leave tickets into an attendance channel, and messaging a duplicate to the absentee
• !attendance to submit an attendance register for a formation
• Dynamic !help command tree, displaying only commands the user has permissions for
• !connected command to export a list of members connected to a voice channel
• !archive command to archive old or retired channels
• !purge command to bulk delete messages
• Individual configuration database for each separate guild, allowing guild-specific permissions and settings to be applied
• A comprehensive suite of lesson management commands, enabling assignment of lesson warnings to specified instructors, and the creation of a private lesson channel for the instructor to develop a lesson plan
• Applies message reactions on successful/unsuccessful executions of commands
• Automatically applies an acknowledgement reaction to announcement posts
• Notifies a recruitment channel when new members join
• Applies a visitor role to new members
• 'Channel pairing', displaying a hidden text channel to the members connected to the paired voice channel only
• A comprehensive logging feature set, such as tracking message edits and deletions
• Fully-featured error detection and responses, with specific prompts detailing expected input
• Easily forkable, with a consolidated configuration and commands list to adapt to your needs, alongside a broad collection of useful modules and handlers
• Easily modified permissions and aliases for individual commands, including whether the command is allowed in direct messages

Commands List

JSDoc Documentation

GitHub Pages

Versioning

Beginning with v5.0.0, Pronto uses standard-version to release new versions. Hence, as of v5.0.0, Pronto follows semver (semantic versioning) standards, using the format [MAJOR].[MINOR].[PATCH]:

1. Major. There is at least one breaking change to Pronto's public functionality, or a breaking change that requires an update to any existing database documents.
2. Minor. There is at least one new backwards-compatible feature added to Pronto's functionality.
3. Patch. There is at least one backwards-compatible bug fix.

Installation

Requirements

• Node.js v12.x
• npm

Dependencies

• discord.js
• dotenv
• dateformat
• mongoose
• chrono-node
• node-cron

Instructions

1. Clone this repository $ git clone https://github.com/JamesNZL/Pronto.git

2. Install required packages by running $ npm install --production in the repository's folder

3. Install MongoDB Community Edition

   NOTE: These instructions apply to the set-up of a local database. This guide will not cover how to connect to a MongoDB Atlas database, however this only requires a substitution of 'mongodb://localhost/pronto' with the Atlas connection string within the value of MONGOURI= in .env.

4. Open config.js and change the configuration settings & default identifiers:

   exports.settings = {
   	prefix: '!',
   	PERMISSIONS_INTEGER: 1879141584,
   	longDate: 'HHMM "h" ddd, d mmm yy',
   	shortDate: 'd mmm',
   	prontoLogo: 'https://i.imgur.com/Whgm87R.png',
   	lessonCron: '0 16 * * 3',
   };
   
   exports.ids = {
   	DEFAULT_GUILD: '765758073942966272',
   	DEVELOPER_ID: '192181901065322496',
   };
   
   ...
   

   Property	Description
   prefix	The command prefix for message commands
   PERMISSIONS_INTEGER	You shouldn't change this unless you know what you're doing or adding/removing things from the bot. If you are, Pronto may require more/less minimum Discord permissions. This integer allows Pronto to verify that it has the necessary permissions to function properly.
   longDate	The dateformat mask / format string. Documentation
   shortDate	The dateformat mask that Pronto uses for a 'shortened' date string
   prontoLogo	A link to the image to use as Pronto's logo (e.g. in the thumbnail of the Commands List embed) NOTE: This is not the avatar of the bot – you need to set that when you create the bot user
   lessonCron	The cron schedule expression that controls when Pronto sends out lesson reminders. Documentation
   DEFAULT_GUILD	The identifier of Pronto's 'master' guild, used as a fallback when a secondary guild has a database error. How to find a Discord identifier
   DEVELOPER_ID	The identifier of the user managing the bot (i.e. you)

   To assign command permissions in v4.2.2, use the following command in a guild channel:

   !eval database(msg.guild, {
   	ids: {
   		formations: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   	},
   	commands: {
   		leave: {
   			requiredRoles: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   			deniedRoles: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   		},
   		leaveFor: {
   			requiredRoles: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   			deniedRoles: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   		},
   		attendance: {
   			requiredRoles: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   			deniedRoles: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   		},
   		connected: {
   			requiredRoles: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   			deniedRoles: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   		},
   		archive: {
   			requiredRoles: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   			deniedRoles: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   		},
   		purge: {
   			requiredRoles: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   			deniedRoles: ['<roleOneID>', '<roleTwoID>'...],
   		}
   	}
   }) --silent
   

   To set up channel linking, use the following:

   !eval (async () => {
   	const Guild = require('../models/guild');
   
   	const database = await Guild.findOne({ guildID: msg.guild.id }, error => {
   		if (error) console.error(error);
   	});
   
   	database.ids.channelPairs = [
   		{ voice: 'voiceOneID', text: 'textOneID' },
   		{ voice: 'voiceTwoID', text: 'textTwoID' },
   		{ voice: 'voiceThreeID', text: 'textThreeID' },
   	  ];
   	database.markModified('ids')
   
   	return await database.save().catch(error => console.error(error));
   })() --silent
   

   A dashboard is coming soon!

5. Follow this guide to create your own bot user and get your bot token (you can set your own picture and name also!)

   The only locations where 'Pronto' is actually named by the bot are commands.js and config.js, and the developer-only commands\ping.js, commands\uptime.js and events\exit.js:

   help: {
   	command: 'help',
   	aliases: ['cmd', 'cmds', 'command', 'commands'],
   	description: {
   		general: 'Get help with using Pronto.',
   		...
   

   pronto: {
   	name: 'Pronto',
   },
   

   .setFooter(`${pingValue} ms | ${await dateTimeGroup()} | Pronto v${version}`);`
   

   You can rename the bot here (inside the ' ' marks), and everything will still work! Basically, just don't change file names :)

   To change the bot's status message, look in events\onReady.js:

   bot.user.setActivity(`the radio net | ${await prefixCommand(help)}`, { type: 'LISTENING' });
   

   Documentation can be found here.

6. Create a file named .env in the top-level folder (i.e. in the same folder as pronto.js) and enter:

   TOKEN=<PASTE_YOUR_BOT_TOKEN_HERE>
   MONGOURI=mongodb://localhost/pronto
   

7. Start the bot with $ npm run start in the repository's folder

8. Done! The bot should now be online, however now you run into the problem of hosting...

   Read this document for more on hosting :)