First off, please stop referring to yourself in such a derogatory manner, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being unsure and even less wrong with asking for help and clarification.

Okay, the Downloads are meant to be literally just that, downloads, these could be software or packs of avatars or smilies, that type of thing. Neither vBexperience or DownloadsII come with any downloads for you to use, this isn't really of any use to you if you do not have software or image packs you wish to share. You could use vbExperience as it is and allow your members to buy only virtual items that are displayed in the postbit etcetera.

Yes, as soon as I get some time. Not earlier, sorry.

Very strange. Does it appear in same manner in a standard default style on your forum?

:up: :)

Lol ok I'm sorry! It's just the forum I'm a member of is very anti-newbies (hence one of the reasons I'm starting my own forum - trying to make it a more friendly place) so I'm trying not to annoy anyone with what are probably very simple questions.

The thing is I've dowloaded vBExperience and it seems to be working well except that my shop has no categories or images so all I'm trying to work out is where do I get the images from, what size are they supposed to be and how do I upload them to the shop?

I've tried reading through this thread but there doesn't seem to be any info on how to do this or if there is I've missed it.

You can get some great icons from here: http://www.crystalxp.net/galerie/en.cat.1.html

Okay, this is what I do for items, create 3 versions of each image, 1 64px by 64px, 1 200px by 200px, 1 350px by 350px
Via FTP create a new folder in ./images, call it shop, in ./images/shop create 2 new folder, call one 200px and the other icons.
Upload the 350px images to ./images/shop/
Upload the 200px images to ./images/shop/200px/
Upload the 64px images to ./images/shop/icons/


admin panel/Experience/Manage Shop, there you will see Add Category, click that and create a category, do this for all the categories you wish.

Now you can add items to which ever category you want, back in Manage Shop you will see your created categories, to the right of each category you will see Edit Items, click that and then click Add item then add your first item.

To get the images to show you need to add their addresses in the image entry fields whilst adding items.
For Title add the items name
For Description add a brief description of the item
For Picture add /images/shop/yourimagename.jpg
For Thumb add /images/shop/200px/yourimagename.jpg
For Icon add /images/shop/icons/yourimagename.jpg

For Display Order add the number to correspond with where in the list you wish the item to appear, for 7th place add 7 and so on.
For Quantity you add how many of the items you want to be available for purchase overall.
For Costs add how many points you require your members to pay for that item
For Costfield, use the dropdown menu and choose the field you want your members to have to use to buy that item.


When you have added all the items you want in that Category remember to click Generate icons/name for postbit

vBExperience installed plus all my members are on level 1, as recounted points several times and they left the level 1, can someone help fix this:confused:

http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/2403/vbexp.png

If it's in beta, should I have downloaded the previous version?

Two problems
1: The Experience link on my navbar is going to a 404 page not found. Everything else looks to be running fine. Doublechecked each and every folder/file in the upload folder as well. Any suggestions?

2. db error
Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT
COUNT(id) as cnt_images,
SUM(views) as sum_views
FROM pp6_photos
WHERE userid=1
GROUP BY userid;

Love this mod and can't wait to work these issues out!

Hello -

I just finished reading the first 33 pages to find this, and still not luck. I hope you haven't already answered this.

1. I've been fiddling with a lot of point values to get to adjust point values. As a result, many of my members are wondering why they lost 45,000 points, 2600 points, etc. Is there a way for me to clear history of these wild fluctuations and set them to start on a particular day?

2. I don't have any Infractions to keep track of. How can I remove the "Infractions" Tab on their profile page?

Thanks,
dc

I gotta say, nice work. I tried the Beta 2 and it failed on my board terribly. Installed the latest Beta and so far so good. I can see the differences in the promotion system and although I had to hit recount multiple times to push people up the promotions ladder, it worked flawlessly.

Nice work :D

Regarding the setting: Latest achievements
In the admin panel: Displays only the last x Achievements of the user (postbit, profile). Lets say we choose = 5.

Problem: If you have a user having 6 or more achievements - the software will:

In the profile navbar -> latest news = correct result -> the system shows the achievements in a rolling fashion.

In the postbit and profile block -> latest achievements = not correct result -> the system shows the achievements according to how their parent achievement category is positioned (display order).

Suggestion: Besides making it rolling for postbit and profile block: In the profile block make a 'view more/all' setting. It is nice to see them all together at one place - but not if it fills up the whole profile window. So e.g. show the latest 5 and then a "view more".