There should be a list of options in vB Options under "Zoints Profile Options." I am not aware of just giving access to certain usergroups, but you could limit member profile viewing through the vB Usergroup manager. But if you are attempting to let only one group see the Zoints profile options, but have the rest of your usergroups see the standard vB profiles, then I don't really believe its possible without probably a lot of work on your end I would have to imagine.

I will try and fix it myself with your advice, thank you! <3

I am running into the same issue: Config file cannot be found.

Only this has caused our entire forum to go down.

I have tried the above suggested, but I'm getting the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare probability() (previously declared in /.........../vbulletin/z/includes/functions.php:8) in /............/vbulletin/includes/functions.php on line 11

Where do I even start? This is a major issue for our board...eek!

If you haven't already, please open a support ticket at network.zoints.com to explain the actions you took in your unistall and include in your ticket a temporary admin account and ftp login info. Without knowing more, I can't help you and this way one of the staff members should be able to help you quickly after your ticket is submitted as I have a meeting to attend shortly.

We'll get it resolved, but it's best to work from a ticket regarding an urgent problem like this.

- Reid

Thank you.

I have sent a ticket in already.

I have also managed to get Zoints reinstalled and have now uninstalled it, but I still have the same error on the forum...

I'll update the ticket...

This has been resolved.

After much nail biting and hair pulling, I figured it out...though I'm still not sure what caused it.

Too bad I can't close my own ticket on the Zoints page....perhaps when they read it for the first time they will see that.

By the time I got home a few hours ago, I saw that you had already had resolved this issue via the ticket. I appreciate all the info you provided RedGTiVR6 and I am glad your forums are back up and running.

- Reid

Somehow, in the process of trying to reinstall and everything, some vBUlletin files were overwritten.

I can't say for sure what exactly happened....I do know that we were still having problems and ended up having to restore the search.php file for some strange reason....

Thanks for the email last night.

I HAve installed it but still showing nothing

can any 1 help plz

notrious, please open up a ticket at network.zoints.com with a url to your site and any notes you can provide about the installation process. Before determining if any login details would be needed for us to assist you, let's get that step out of the way.

Thanks

- Reid

thanks man best hack :)

Does this have to be installed on the same domain as your forum? I'm looking at having it on a 2nd domain.

eg forums is www.myforum.com and this is www.yourforum.com can this be done or can it only be installed on sub domains?

Thank you

looks like a good mod but does it have to link to zoints? I mean when you have your own forum etc you want to keep users on it and not wondering off in all directions (as little foreign site interference as possible).

If you know your way around PHP you can "hack" out links leading out of your site in the Zoints section. I've also disabled any blocks that link out and changed the search button to go to memberlist.php?do=search instead of the Zoints search. (After the last upgrade I need to re-hack this stuff, so it's not fixed up on my site right now...)

So yeah, it can be done -- to an extent.

Hi C.Birch,

I've been waiting back to hear on a response for whether or not this can be done, but I am relatively sure that Zoints needs to be installed on the same domain as it calls for various vB settings and such to configure and sync the two up. If I hear otherwise, I will let you know as soon as possible.

Zoints is set up to be installed in your forum root at the /z/ directory.

Hey AndyPandy,

It does have to link to Zoints, regardless of what the below user mentions. Zoints is not a hack for everyone, especially those with concerns like those. I would suggest analyzing some Zoints forums, especially if you see any direct competitors on Zoints, and possibly even asking a few users with Zoints how it has effected their traffic. From my experience, and what I have seen from other forums with Zoints, it's not an add-on that will give you significant gains or losses with member activity. If you're concerned about this and would like to reduce the chance for it, you could set up an initial usergroup that members go into that would not give them the ability to access profiles until they hit the promotion you defined in Admin CP. Most establish forum goers aren't going to leave that easily for greener pastures unless they want to, and if they wanted to that badly there is always search engines and directories. (The last few sentiments aren't really of Zoints, but my personal opinion and experience so take them for what they're worth.) I can understand your concerns though.

Again, Zoints isn't for everyone. If the autonomous licenses open up again, I ensure you that the news is posted here as that would accomplish what you seek to do Andy.

Hi ChurchMedia,

Links that go out to Zoints.com are mandatory to stay unless you are using an autonomous license (which currently aren't for sale, and take care of issues such as the search if you have one.) We've released a hack to the community that while not yet perfect, we feel is unique, a positive add on to many sites, and all we ask is that the forum community respects a few things such as not removing links going out to Zoints, which is not permitted. We've tried to leave Zoints to be a tool that forum owners can modify and tweak, giving their own spin to it via their design and coding talents; all within a few restrictions. To quote a post made by one of our coders at network.zoints.com:

Obviously you might of not had been aware of this, so please don't interpret my post as harsh. Hopefully this is informative to you.

- Reid

No, I wasn't aware of any rules or conditions concerning the Zoints hack. I am surprised, however, to actually get a response from anyone at Zoints. I would really like to see the hack progress in development -- fixing bugs, adding features (like RSS for members blogs, etc.) and better integration with vBulletin (VB Ajax conflicts with Zoints Ajax). I've been monitoring this thread for some time and this is the first response I've seen in quite a long while (maybe I got your attention ;)).

So, does this mean that the Zoints hack will continue to develop? What is on the horizon and what kind of ETA do you have?

And I'll respect the conditions of using the hack. ChurchMedia.net strives to be above reproach in everything we do.

Thanks!

Check the thread for the past few weeks. I have been addressing concerns here, via PM, and on network.zoints.com (along with others.) With the transfer of ownership, things were lackluster to say the least regarding our support but we've been making serious strides with answering tickets, responding to posts and so on in a very timely fashion as of late (for nearly all of April essentially).

As for the future of Zoints, I really can't comment on that as we have finally begun to shore up our support once again and address other areas of concern for Zoints. Frankly, a lot of the development is still in the idea stage. We do have every intention however to further the development of Zoints through improvement of the modification and getting it to be as stable of a release as possible. Since I am not a coder or one resourcing the project, a timeline would be unfair to provide as that is really out of my area. However, my area does involve idea generation to further Zoints towards being more featured rich, easy to use and improving items of integration. I am a big dreamer by nature, so I am just excited as the rest of you regarding future Zoints development. At the very least, I guarantee continued support at a much higher level than what some sadly experienced a couple of months ago. We are most certainly progressing though in nearly every front, even if it's most of it is just setting the initial concepts down behind the scenes.

And thank you for respecting those restrictions ChurchMedia. A few areas of Zoints Local are a bit murky (such as that) so I don't blame you or others for being confused to that.

- Reid

Sounds good. I'll be looking forward to seeing what develops. The hack is awesome as-is, so thanks. My members love it. :)

We have it running fine. Just one odd detail I need to mention;

I blocked a user from my profile on a recent occasion and it gave me a "no such user" message. Blocked them as normal anyway though so I assume it's a phrase issue or something.

I got it installed tonight and have a few questions

- I changed the My Vehicle block to another name but it still shows as my vehicle? What am I missing in the admin area?

- I am not sure how to change the default color so my users cannot alter it, any ideas, might of missed it somewhere

- is there anyway to stop linking out to the Zoints page in the "My Interestes" page. I dont think I will keep the mod if there are many links leading to outside my forums. I feel it defeats the purpose of having the system if memebrs are forced to go outside when they click a link

thanks

Hi v12kid,

It appears someone responded to your queries on network.zoints.com as I am sure you know with responding and all. ;)

But in regards to your second question, which appears different than on the thread you created on the support forums, are you still having difficulty with this? And if so, are you referring to the styles within Zoints?

Thanks for joining Zoints.

- Reid

I used the zoints editor, and the style exists on the zoints.com site, but the style doesn't show up as an option on my forum.

also, the user search facility doesn't work at all, returning the message "no users found", no matter what I enter.

Hi jbd,

Right now, sadly, there is a lack of integration between the Local and Centralized (Zoints.com) versions that permits such a thing from being a possibility. To create a style for your Zoints Local installation, log into the Zoints Local install and create your style, click settings, Zoints Admin Area, Pages and then edit the particular pages you want to display the style you created. You can also disable style editing so that members are restricted to a particular style, if you want it that way.

The member search function is nor working on your Zoints Local install? I would suggest opening up a support ticket at network.zoints.com as that would take a bit more exploratory work than what we could do here.

- Reid

To clarify, if I enter an exact username then it will return the relevant user.

But it won't return anything under any other search option.

Under normal conditions, it should return results by searching either partial or complete names. I haven't dealt with this problem personally, but I will look into it a bit further. I would suggest creating a ticket though in the mean time as there might be someone a bit more experienced with that issue to help you.

- Reid

it should also return results by entering in other data though... it says "all fields are optional"

So for example, if I wanted to find other users between the ages of 20 and 30, then I would not enter a username or part of a username. I would simply enter the age range and click on submit. This should return some users, but it returns none.

Same happens if I do a search for people in the USA, or any other country. No users are returned.

___

EDIT: Perhaps this is because the search facility can only search through communities to which you have already chosen to be connected? Not sure if that is how it is supposed to work?

Ideally the search facility should allow you to find relevant people and communities before you are connected to them via zoints.com. I believe this would be a lot more logical for the user.

I own several forums. Is there a bridge to connect them?

Hi jbd,

Please submit a support ticket at network.zoints.com (I don't believe you have, but I could of overlooked it I suppose) as this one is perplexing me quite a bit and I would like to get a few more eyes on the problem.

Hi Michael,

There isn't a bridge at this point but more connectivity is something we are looking looking at for future releases. Sorry.

- Reid

I installed everything, the profile works, however, no matter what I do, I can't get the integration to work. None of the zoints links show up. I did the import of the product xml, and then I did it manually. Nothing.

first off, great mod!

For some reason, installation seems to have gone smoothly, but when I try to view member's profile, it still takes me to their vB profile. If I type myurl.com/forums/z/ I am able to pull up the Zoints menu and go to my page from there, but otherwise I can't.

I'm still unable to integrate this into the forum using the installer OR the manual edits. I've attempted to hack it using and attaching it to a a link that goes to /z/index.php but it doesn't always parse the link properly. is there a way to call a userid number properly?

I'm also having this issue. Haven't been able to find the source of the issue..

Yea, I haven't been able to find a solution just yet. PM me if you do figure it out, and ill do the same.

NEVERMIND.

index.php?id=123

does it work?

yeah, I've been able to create links on postbit, navbar, and memberinfo
(insert where you desire)
now, I'm evaluating whether or not I want to fully replace profiles..

sorry, im kind of a newbie at this. Where would I be entering these in those files?

I got your PM, I will update this thread with the location of the manual edits.. or someone else can. Basically, in any of the pages where 'userid' is used, the link http://yoursite(dot)com/forumsdirectory/z/index.php?id=$xxx[userid]

A good way to find the userid link you need to change is by opening the template and searching for 'userid'

I'd love to know how to change the last post userid link though

Hi l3it3r and dpatel304,

I apologize for the lack of response, I've been a bit busy as of the past few days. I see though that there is a thread opened at network.zoints.com (I have yet to read it) and I will see if I can find anything to contribute to the conversation there that hasn't been said by someone else. I hope we can resolve this issue for you both.

- Reid