Figured I'd give you guys a few pictures of the changes in 3.1.0 on the ACP as I've really gone all out on improving the Admin CP ease and usability. Anyways I've pretty much enhanced every section whether by minor tweaks or major overhauls. I've also chopped up the admin cp files for smaller files and easier editing and expanded the Administrative permissions on what admins can edit/cant.

Attached are a few little screenshots so you can see what I am working on. I would like everyone to know on vbaddict.net I now have a beta test thread open for those who are interested.

I can't see "Points Bank" nor "Coupons settings" menu at Admin CP (TheMayem pictures)

What did I do wrong?

Do you mean the attachments won't load? The Points Bank and Coupons settings are a brand new feature on 3.1.0, which hasn't been released yet. It's still being developed.

No no, I meant the settings stuff. Ok, so Points Bank and Coupons will be available soon. Thats great !!
I'll be waiting :)
Thnx TheMayhem, you are doing such a great job.

I'm having a consistent bug with custom usertitles. Whenever a member changes their usertitle with the market, then an admin tries to change the usertitle, it reverts back to the one purchased in the market after ~10 minutes. The same happens when a user is in the userclass that allows changing of the usertitle. Anything it's changed to reverts to the one purchased in the market. Even using the market to change it again, it reverts.

Is there any way to completely disable the Bank, Gifts, and Gambling options? I can't seem to find any way of stopping them from showing up as options.

All I want from this Mod is the ability to obtain points, and to create some custom rewards for obtaining the points. All of this extra stuff is far too messy.

I can see why it won MOTM... amazing stuff.

thanks :D

Next version I make it possible to disable everything via usergroup access.

Would it be possible to have some kind of a display on the user profile where everyone is able to see what was purchased by the owner?

The only workaround I could find was deleting the individual transactions from the database with PhPMyAdmin. I don't know how to prevent this error, and this workaround is time intensive and inefficient.

Hey, I use the lottery every week as a game. And posters buy their tickets, but look at this:

Week 1 - Spawner $760,000
Week 2 - HeatSeeker $228,000
Week 3 - HeatSeeker $250,000
Week 4 - HeatSeeker $110,000
Week 5 - HeatSeeker $130,000
Week 6 - HeatSeeker $350,000
Week 7 - James $250,000
Week 8 - Heatseeker
Week 9 - Heatseeker

During week 7, he didn't win because he didn't buy any tickets lol. Is there any reason he's winning week after week, is there a bug?! How does the system select the winner of the lottery?

Has anyone tested this on 4.1?

Can you actually give members gifts, or only purchase them for yourself?

Both

It seems to be working fine on 4.1 for me. :D

1) i have this error when installed this version Point Market 3.0.1vb4



Database error in vBulletin 4.0.8:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT username, Market FROM user order by Market DESC limit 0,1;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'Market' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Saturday, December 4th 2010 @ 07:30:49 AM
Error Date : Saturday, December 4th 2010 @ 07:30:49 AM
Script : http://www.cutimalaysia.my/admincp/m...?do=statistics
Referrer :
IP Address : 175.144.194.207
Username : Mr. Tuah
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.91-community-log


2) How to adjust this, so that I can access and our usergroup didn't see this message again??

The Points Market is currently disabled. This can occur for a number of reasons. The most likely reason is that you currently do not have any earned points. In order to access the Point Market you must have at least 1 point. Another reason you could be seeing this error is the point field entered into the Point Market Control Panel is incorrect or was not found.

That's a really odd error... Are you trying to view the statistics main page or a specific statistic?

This means you either don't have any points OR that the field you entered doesn't exist or you didn't enter a field in the Point Market settings. What did you enter as a Point Field and what did you call it as name?







As an update to everyone else, I haven't really gotten to make any updates since before Thanksgiving. The reason why is I just finished up my finals a bit earlier then everyone expected. The good news I have is I've basically finally finished up the revamped Admin CP. I really tried my hardest to implement everything everyone has wanted or try to make things more visually appealing and less "cluttered". I still have a few more days of programming on the front end of the Market and of course a week or two of debugging... gotta love debugging :mad:

Anyways, my goal is still to get this released by Christmas morning for everyone in a stable form.

Thank you for all your hard work The Mayhem :D

Could you answer my question please themayhem? Heatseeker has just won another lottery, after purchasing just one ticket, compared to everybody else purchasing at least 10 each.

I honestly have not gotten to look at it yet to see if it is working correctly. Lottery winner is just determined by a random selection of the lottery ticket purchasers. I've spent the last 48 hours working on the 3.1x new features on the user side since I finished up the Admin side. I will check to make sure it's not a bug before I release the product.

Can you tell me what do I do if I am using vbplaza on vb3.8.4 and want to upgrade to 4.1 and use this instead?

Thanks

There is no converter simply because I haven't used vbplaza in about 5 years. You'll find many of the forum items that are available in vbplaza are available in the Point Market and the market has many new ideas added to the whole point store concept. All you need to do is these steps if you want to come to 4.1x series of vBulletin and use the PM instead.

Step 1) Disable vBPlaza
Step 2) Upgrade forum to 4.1x
Step 3) Install a Point Modification (vBCredits, vBExperience, uCash, vBActivity, etc.) You can use 2 modifications if you want
Step 4) Install Point Market
Step 5) Setup all settings the way you like :)

Question: Does this new update (well, new to me) fix the PM issues with usernames? When I reply to PM's, users that have glow or other purchased username mods from the market place have code embedded, which needs to be deleted prior to responding.

Edit: Just did some research and found the answer. My second question is, how in the heck can I change my username back? I can't mod it from the user panel, as I'm the admin and protected...so what gives? I'd really like to remove my glow / color so people can reply to my PM's with ease. Thanks for any help, really appreciated! :D

I love this mod,....but,...

It really badly needs to un-do thread/username changes automatically when refunded from store (or expires), when certain related store items are disabled, or the whole product is uninstalled or disabled.

This is very important to say the least.

For this reason many of my store items are disabled, and I am stuck with discolored thread titles in thread lists, that will not revert at all.

If you have access to your database you an delete the Market transaction and then try editing yourself. It's the only way I can change a usertitle once a member has purchased one on the market.

In the new release their is a timeout option which has been requested since version 1.0, it will undo about 80% of the purchases after a set period of time. That will help with the colored thread settings which is one of them or user titles or pretty much anything that is changed to the user database.

One of the very few things that the timeout option does not fix is a changed username. Here's the reason why, when a user changes their username, they use the new username to login. If that times out or you uninstall the product or whatever the reason, they'll still be using the new username to login and not the old one yet it will have reverted back to the old one. That will create instances where the user can't login because they didn't know or forgot about the revert of it. I just forsee too many issues regarding that therefore I'm leaving it so that if you change a username, it is a permanent option. I will say this is one of the few things in 3.1 that cannot be reverted by a timeout option. Maybe I'll add it as a refund option so that users who are not happy with their username change can change it back; however, hopefully you see my reasoning on why.

As for the PM glitch, yes it will be fixed. That is the most serious bug right now in the Point Market that is known and fortunately it's still not that serious.

04wayne I'll be looking into your lottery issues on Saturday as that's the day I'm planning on spending some time improving the lottery.

As for the reported user title change, this is what I am planning on doing (haven't done it yet). If a user goes to their usercp and changes their user title, I am going to add a plugin that will update all market purchases and by default mark them as expired so they do not change again. This will stop the reported bug that users change their user title and it reverts back to their market purchase. As for the admin cp... I'm still trying to come up with ideas on that to fix that part.

The Point Market is currently on track for a 3.1.0 Christmas Day release for you guys :)

Sounds good, and thank you. Still one of the best mods out here. Your support of it is supurb to say the least.

I do understand about the username changes that makes sense.

But the thread/username color glow not resetting is a problem sometimes, and I sincerely appreciate your efforts.

Thanks again TM.

No problem, like I said the thread and username glow will BOTH be able to expire in the next release so if your trying to get rid of any current ones, simply set a short expiration time period and it'll automatically go back to default. Plus the next release you can control what colors appear on user titles/usernames as well as glows :)

Anything new 'bout the pm username bug? I'm waiting for the 3.1.0 since Sept. 27th, nearly 10 weeks now :(

Does anyone know another similar addon to send gifts to other users? That's the only thing I need :/

Doesn't the purchase another gift for another user item work for that?

The purchase feature works, but the pm system is a real mess in 2.1... And the 3.0.1 includes some other several bugs, so i decided to wait for your maintenance release 3.1...

The only bug that I have opened and unanswered that I know of is that pm'ing a user who has a glow/color to their usertitle gives weird html on the person to pm? If there is another bug in 3.0.1 that hasn't been reported now is the time...

A selector for default category gifts to show up, using several of the mini profile hooks in legacy templates.

Just a suggestion.

I'm not really sure what you mean by that??? Although, I'm very close to zipping this skippy up and letting people test it for bugs.

Even me too, pls release this in the next version.

I have a question about upgrading. I've modified a lot of items in the market and a lot of code in the actual file. Will I lose all of my custom scripted items if I upgrade to a new version?

The market.php has been heavily-heavily edited between 3.0.1 and 3.1.0
What I essentiall did is split the market.php file up into about 8 files that are located inside a new directory called pointmarket, which makes it easier for me to edit.

The file that now deals with purchases is called market_purchase.php. In addition to the name change, there is a coupon addition associated with all purchases on the market_transactions queries that is run as well as a marketid/mid column change, and a few other things. So in short, yes if you custom scripted anything you will need to remodify the code after the upgrade. Finally, if you ended up creating any NEW items in the market_items table by creating a new table row/data, you will severely-severely screw up the code and probably will have to uninstall/reinstall. Now if you just used the market test items that were precoded for your use, then you won't have to uninstall anything and simply just remodify the code for 3.1.0

So how does this mod work with VBexperience, or how does
vbexperience work with this mod...

Thanks