Man, y'all need to play w/ this ish before posting up if you can/can't do something.

um, you can fully disabled the ability for users to view the "old" profiles via the Zoints control panel area. simply set the option for every user group.
people edit their profiles on my site to set their location since Zoints hasn't provided the ability to pull user data out of a zoints profile and show in a post/threadbit as of this build. otherwise, the only profiles they view / use are the Zoints ones
shut off all the other pages in the zoints profile via the zoints administration area.
i have no problems with it.
visit the zoints administration area.

If you do not want any links, what so ever, coming out in which your forum members could go elsewhere, likely this isn't the perfect solution for you. Although I should remind you that it is a two way street in that just as easily as your members could leave elsewhere, members from elsewhere could leave for your site. But with that said, in complete honesty, I don't think significant recruitment or member dropoff has yet been attributed to Zoints having a Communities button, as typically members are already happy with the forum they are already at and would no longer be there if they weren't. I am very concerned about those types of issues with my own forum members (for instance, new members can't PM for 5 days and 50 posts on my forum) but before I was a staff member on Zoints, I used Zoints and never felt any noticeable ill effects from it with members being tempted to elsewhere.

As for tips, I would suggest running a contest for who can create the best profile. Whether it's for an actual prize or cash, or for something on the site (like points if you have a point shop or something creative that your members would like) and have people post their profiles for you and your team to look at. Narrow it down 16 or whatever, and do brackets (leading to an ultimate winner) or just have an outright vote on it.

And with removing the Edit Profile functionality of vB, I would suggest simply removing the links to that part of your site or change the link to go to their Zoints profile (I can help with this if you would like, let me know.)

That is a feature that works James, can some forums have problems with it though? Sure. Open up a ticket if you haven't already and one of the guys on the team will be sure to try to help you out with this.

Hi Ensemble, this is possible. As Danny (I believe) responded, you can disable pages from the ZAdmin, including the profile and network and such... so only the blog is showing. If you need more detailed instructions, let me know.

Jah, I really couldn't tell you, you would have to ask them.

Hi again Jah, this is the only thread to discuss Zoints Local at vbulletin.org, but we have additional forums of our own at network.zoints.com.

Hmm, that's an interesting question and I think it is possible. After someone has created a style, go to your ZAdmin, click Pages and then click Edit Name/Style for a particular page and look for the name of the style that the individual created. If you don't see it, let me know as while I think that should work as is, there might be one holdup that I'll tell you to account for if it arises.

Alright and as for changing the name of My Vehicle, go to your Zadmin, click Pages, and then click Edit Name/Style (like listed above) and simply change the name of the page to what you would like.

- Reid


(Edit: Thanks for the help bc3tech! I didn't make my way over to the next page yet.)

The Communities System Is Not Managed In My Own Forums!! :(

When Clicking On The Communities Link, Is Drives The Users To The Zoints Web Site, Leaving My Community Into The Zoints Community!! :erm:

But Congratulations For Your Community Is a Great Development!! ;) :up:

The Blogs Are Really Cool, I Think I'll Try Them On My Forums!! :up: :up: :up:

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

I have the official VBulletin blog installed and will get another blog option via Zoints Local

Any ideas on how to manage that?

Disable the Zoints one?

or

Just use the Zoints one and disable the Official Vbulletin one?

Thanks in advance for any power user tips & tricks

How come when I navigate to www.mysite.com/forum/z/sammy it doesn't go directly to my profile?

you paid for the vB one (right?)... why would you disable it...

Indeed, I am looking for power-user tips (if possible) before I unleash this on my members.. they are a very picky crowd and if there are two blogs running they will give me a hard time about it. If someone out there believes one blog is better than the other - I would be interested in hearing their opinion on the subject. I don't want to go live with it with 2 x user profile areas and 2 x blogs - that would seem dumb / look bad to me..

Hello zoints,

Your script seems to be very nice. But when i am trying to install it on my Server It stuck on Details.php page.

I tried every thing but it is giving me a BLANK Page When i click Proceed on Database Option Page.

It seems that somehow it is not creating tables in the database.

Can you please Help on this issue

Regards
Kshitij Sharma

Does anyone know how to get rid of the "Zoints Communities" section on the profile page?

I Tried to install it . everything went well and easy.
but the pages became messed up because I'm using Arabic language forum. as we know Arabic forums use right to left content and styles. so this is not worked for me .. although its a great hack

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