We have a requests forum on our site, for 3rd party addons, no eta as of yet for vbgallery intergration, we do use it on our site though. Just not linked to vbcredits yet.

great mod...succesfull installed

How is this going? Have you worked it out yet? this is the only bug that is holding me off from doing this event on my site where I am going to use the credits as tokens in a lottery like event.

i have been working on other projects. personally i feel that correcting that last issue is something that can be decently dealt with until the core of vbcredits is changed, and that wont happen until 2.0

why can't I get this working on 3.8, do I have to make any template edits?

yes, did you follow the instructions?

im making the template edits now. it said only make them if its 3.6 or older but I'm doing them anyway.

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how do I disable the banking system?

no, it said dont make them if you have tms installed.

to disable banking system, set 0 for maximum savings and/or loans in the usergroup settings for the groups you wish to disable it for.

how do I erase credits that are already saved in the bank, they are set to 0 but users have already deposited credits in the bank

you can use the Modify Accounts by Criteria tool under the vBCredits menu in the admincp.

Select users who have savings, and for what it finds use C+S for the checking value, and 0 for the S value at the top, and it will take care of the rest :)

Hello,

Sorry if this is a dumb question!

Is there an addon or feature where we can assign points for moderation and/or admin activities?

if i understand correctly - not really (except maybe getting an infraction). but to be sure, what kind of activities did you have in mind?

Sorry not to be clear, I mean to reward moderators:

(1) Giving infractions
(2) Approving threads and posts
(3) Approving visitor messages
(4) Deleting posts as spam
(5) Approving attachments

etc... other moderating tasks.

Also, the same for admins:

(1) Installing a plugin
(2) Modifying a template
(3) Adding a new phrase
(4) Changing a users profile

etc etc

Hey Darkwaltz4,

Great plugin system, BTW. We installed yesterday and our users seem to really like it. It is a keeper! We have around 80K registered users and nearly 3M PVs a month these days, so I am sure I will have a lot of questions :)

One of the most important activities by users is to search a forum before posting a question.

Is there any reason you did not including giving credit for searching in your vBCredit system?

Hey Darkwaltz4,

I tried to add

from the members info page to another template (another mod).

In the members info tempate it gives total credits. but it only gives checking account credits in another template.

Do you have a handy was to add something like:

to a different template and get the total credits?

More questions.

How can Admins and Moderators edit the comments made when credits are awarded for a post?

I don't think they can!

This means the vBCredits systems has the potential for abuse and spam since poster scan post any comment, good, bad, profane, ugly, etc. when they award credits for a post !!

I thought we could edit these when editing the post or thread, but no joy. Everything can be edited, except the vBCredits information...

Whoops ... !

No, these are not supported. Theres also no hooks for most of them :-/ would require a lot of file editing.

Not...really... you are the first to request it

The variables are rendered in the templates you were instructed to add them to. If you want to change or add more places, then corresponding hooks need to have the rendering code applied to them. if you tell me where you want to add it, i can probably tell you the plugin part to add.

You are right, but they still obey your censor and bbcode settings at least. Most people dont allow use of the post award system for nontrusted groups (although it is built to allow it).

Thanks for the answers.

Regarding the total credits for a user, I am trying to add that to another template outside of the vBCredits system called "Meet Our Staff". When I add:


... we get only the Checking Account, not the totals.

Also, I noticed the same problems existing in vBCredits in the user profile-->statistics page.

PS: Why does vbulletin.org not have BB code icons for easy BBcoding when writing or editing a post??

Does this count points from the day I install the mod or does it count all previous activity from the beginning of the forum's existence? Or is there a way to choose which setup I'd like to use?

Reference:

http://www.vbcredits.com/forum/showthread.php?p=16541

Looking at the options, it doesn't look like I can control this. :(

There is a "mass update tool" which works OK. It is not perfect, but it is very useful.

Will the users just get their points back when the scheduled task runs?

Hey Eagle,

Honestly, I have not found complete documentation on what happens, when, how, etc. I did all our setup with trial and error.

So, I can't help much more. The Developers, if they have time, could help if they exposed these exact processes and algorithms a bit more so we can easily understand what happens behind the scenes.

Otherwise, you will have to read the code and decipher on your own.

It starts from when you install it. If you want to award since the beginning, use the Mass Credit Updater to process points according to your settings from all applicable statistics. Does not obey the forum overrides though.

No, the scheduled task handles referrals, activity, paycheck, birthday awards, and the lottery.

Yeah, i know theres no documentation, and theres just too much to talk about that i havent done it in like two years already :p However I am really happy to explain anything that needs it, even if its the millionth time lol.

Thank you for the response. How can I reset everything though, after I install it - to start fresh, you know?

Couple ways to do it:

You can use the mass credit updater again (select all groups DONT select any awards, base 0, let it process)

If you have a small set of users, you can use the award users by criteria tool to select everyone, and then set checking and savings to 0, save it.

If you are comfortable with queries you can do the fastest of them all, run:
UPDATE user SET credits = 0, credits_saved = 0
which resets everyone to 0 (apply table prefix as applies)

Great, thanks John!

Is there a way to manually add points to a user account?

Nick,

I know that in the individual users screen you'll see a place for their points on the bottom left. I believe that you can manually add them there.

Great, thanks Arny!

Well it looks like I've got everything set up. Now I can launch my contest. :D (See link in Sig)

Awesome Nick! :up:

I'm going to go sign up now ;)

Dark, please help :-). I ran into compatibility issue between great vBCredits and another hack, Let user choose how many reputation points to give (up to their limit), which is really useful too (you can choose how many points from your power you will give to a post).

Since I upgraded it to new version v1.1.0 last month, our users don't receive credits for reputation points (positive and negative). When I disable this product, credits for reputation points are working again :-(.

Don't you have some idea, where could be a problem or what I have to look for?

if that hack is replacing the default vbulletin system internally, then they need to include the vbulletin hooks so that my system (and others that might be integrated there) can run their regular code there. otherwise if they are leaving it out, vbcredits doesnt execute there. there isnt much i can do at that point, have you shown this issue to that author?

I have users getting all different amounts of credits per post. It should be just 2 per post, but I have some getting 4, some getting twelve, one getting 18... nothing should be multiplied, and usergroup settings are all the same. Any ideas?

set to 0 your additive referral bonus for your usergroups. it is NOT the same as the referral award, but i think you got them confused.

I've installed vBcredits but the credits won't show in my post bit legacy (each post under username)

Can anyone help ?

MSN: jhakim65@hotmail.com

Thanks,

did you apply the template edits to your postbit_legacy template?

GREEEEEEEEET I BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!!!!!! wwooooo hooooo finally i found you...but i only see its for vb 3.7 :( do you have a version for vb3.8.x and vbadvance?

please tell you do please

waiting on your reply


thanks


EDIT: WOW i missed that you said 3.7 works for 3.8 so excited i just skimmed through it lol going to check out your site and see whats the differrence

Is this product still developed/maintained ? I believe it has been RC for quite a long time. When is the final release expected ?