Thanks squidsk!
I really happy to read that you want add more criteria :D I'm waiting for it (hope soon) :)

However, as suggestion, I find more important these criterias:
- day since last post (it could be used for identify if the user is active or not)
- day since last visit
- number of threads created
- days from registration

For now I will do what you had suggest me to do!
Thanks again and good work! ;)

username/userid override for congratulatory pm doesn't seem to work

Days from registration already exists in the mod. Number of threads wouldn't be too difficult to add, but the other two really don't make any sense to add as rewarding for either of the first two doesn't really seem to make any sense.

Its a known issue that has been been fixed for the next release.

Hi .. I meant that day since last post or visit is not a rewarding but is usefull with a double criteria.
Example..
First criteria shoud be:
Day since last post/visit < 60
Post > 1000

In this case I will add an award only to users that still use the forum and not an old user. I tested another mod and they allowed that a criteria is composed to xx criteria as a combination.
This is should be fantastic :D but is only a suggestion.
However thanks again!
bye ;)

Having multiple criteria won't be added at the momemt, but perhaps later.

As for not adding it to old users, for this mod since there's no removal criteria, except for being replaced by a succeeding award for the same criteria, the old user would already have the award and it wouldn't be taken away, unless manually removed.

Release a small update for award_automation:

1.0.3 R3

* Fixed - Uninstalling product not removing award_automation table
* Fixed - Uninstalling product not droping the award cgroup column from the award_users table
* Fixed - Granting of usergroup criteria awards to incorrect usergroups
* Fixed - Apostrophes in issue reason causing database errors

Hi Squidsk, do we have to install this addon? Or the version we install will not cause issues?

It says in the email: For those of you using the award automation add-on to yaas I've released a mini-update that fixes a couple of issues.

I don't think i have an addon for the award system, is there an addon?

Yes there is an, optional, add-on award automation which automates the adding of awards. It's the second zip file in the main post. If it isn't in your installed products list you aren't using it.

Ok ive installed this but cant find it on my forum,no nav tab or anything.Everything seemed to install ok on vbulletin 4.2.2.Cant find anything in navigation manager either.
Ive noticed this error too Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /getontheark.com/public_html/admincp/award_automation.php on line 17

How do i fix this pls

What have you installed? YaAS 4.0.6 or YaAS_Automation 1.0.3? The second won't work without the first, in fact I doubt it will even install, and the first does not create a navigation link, that's an update for a future version.

As for the warning go to line 17 and replace =& with =. I will fix that warning as well.

Is yesterday's release the 'next release' mentioned here? Is this fixed already in the current version posted here?

No, there are two products listed on this page (YaAS and YaAS automation) this update is for the second, and doesn't fix any outstanding issues with the first, base, YaAS product, which is still at version 4.0.6.

I will in due course separate the two products but part of that process for me means making sure that the YaAS automation product could be properly uninstalled as the larger changes I'm working on for YaAS automation are not compatible with this version so being able to properly uninstall it will be required for the major upgrade.

Have u seen this ?

cause still when i run this query :
I get results from this mod.

My forum got hacked lately and i'm looking for reasons. i love this mod and i'm just trying to make sure everything is ok.

thanks in advance

The reason likely is you haven't deleted your install directory as that is the most common reason for forums being hacked and if you didn't follow the email and admincp instructions from vbulletin then you were vulnerable and got hacked.

The exploit of this mod in question was fixed in version 4.0.4. If you get base64 results it isn't in the default installation, which you could have easily checked by downloading a fresh copy of the mod searching the file contents for base64. Since it has been added to the plugins for this mod you can safely assume that whoever hacked your site added it there.

Squidsk thanks for the clarification.

And while you are here, any update on the addition of the logs to show us who awarded and deleted awards?

Also, how hard would it be to make a points leaders stats block for this mod?

Thanks in advance my Man! have a good day !

of course i have been deleted all install folder and secure many stuff in vb. still not sure how they did. we are looking.

So in this case , i had using the v3 of this mod. after upgraded to vb v4 i have updated this mod too but of course upgraded , not a fresh install as i dont want to lose the saved awards and ... . what is ur suggestion in this case to get rid of those mysql query results ?

Thanks in advance

Reinstall the xml file for the mod with allow overwrite checked, that should overwrite the bad code. If it doesn't delete the plugins in question and then reinstall the xml, which should install the default version of the removed plugins. Absolute worst case is export the contents of the awards tables, uninstall the mod, reinstall the mod then re-import the table data.

Adding the logging was fairly simple; however, the entire update is significantly larger, at least partially because of some code re-organization I'm doing, among other improvements.

There are a few outstanding bugs from the 4.0.X series, so I'm thinking about releasing one last small bug fix patch for that one, and I may be able to toss the logging into it. I'm not entirely sure yet about that.

Good stuff Squidsk, so around when can we expect the bug patch?

Thanks for this mod. I'm hoping I can get it to work! I am a relative newbie with a forum of 2200 members.

I installed the mod (vb version 4.2.2) and I can see that it is installed, but I can't see it on the forum anywhere or any way to access it. I read most of the posts here and found out that I need to create a tab using navigation manager for the awards, which I did, and I pointed it toward the award.php file location. But when I click on the tab, I get a screen asking me for my vbulletin license number?

Is there a way I can access this program without creating an awards tab? What am I doing wrong? I am at a loss. Thanks for any help.

You have some other issue going on if clicking on awards.php is asking for your vbulletin license number. As far as I'm aware the only location in vbulletin where that number is requested is in the install folder, which you should have been required to delete if you'd properly upgraded your forum to vb4.2.2. You can easily check that nowhere in this mod is that number being requested.

Hello, I have tried everything. I can not get the product to create a new thread. I have full administrator rights, and have tried putting it in different thread id's some with higher permissions, and some that are open to every registered user.

ID's I have tried are
23
23-News-and-Announcements

Nothing works, I don't have any additional anti spam installed. Help?

Im holding off on giving awards because I Just can't seem to solve this problem. I am the site admin, with privilege to post in the forum....nothing I have tried over the last hour will get this mod to start a thread. Help :(

Are you trying to have it post when you issue the award or when someone requests/recommends it?

This mod only creates a thread/post when an award is requested, not when you give one out to someone.

I would have loved it if it would create a new thread in the forum of my choice when I have someone an award... an announcement to the community that the user received the award.

Dangit, yes that is what it was....hmm its a nice feature, but it was not what i was hoping it would be.

Thanks for solving this mystery for me.

No worries. i was disappointed in the way it worked as well.

Fixed - version check page not working

I know this was in the changelog for 4.0.6

However,
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/01/35.png

The awards version check in the left menu was fixed. The version check in the products page is still pooched.

It should simply require the number itself not the full url or snippet as you posted so yes just "23" should work.

• If your having the requests or recommendations posted as a New Thread OR New Post within a existing thread please ensure that the members usergroup has permission to do so, in other words they can't post a new rank request into a private admin-only forum or a new post in a admin only thread correct? Therefor you create a new forum and only allow viewing to normal members without any posting rights etc.
• If your having users requesting ranks every min or two, adjust your minimum time between posts to be one minute otherwise if you have a minimum time between post set you may run into issues.

Quick question, If a user purchases a usergroup can i set it so soon as he gets moved to a usergroup he receives an award automatically?

If you use to automation add-on you can do that, but currently it won't remove the award if they are no longer in the usergroup.

Hay squidsk i figure out on one of my mods how to get on stuff on the member list i don't know it you still want this mod to work on the member list but if you do pm me.

Is this mod available for vbulletin v5?

Not yet, and I don't know when it will be.

I cant get this to work.. All i did was uploaded the xml file of 4.0.6 zip im using vB 4.2.2. its not showing up or so. am i doing something wrong?

If you mean there is no tab, then that's fine as the current version does create a tab and you have to manually create it using the navigation manager. The real question is do you see appropriate stuff in admincp.

I have a question, how to i set it to where ONLY registered members can see this page.
Right now even non registered members and users can click on awards and see them all

Look at how the private message submenu to the forum menu is setup in the navigation manager and copy that.

Hey squidsk, any news on the update you said you were going to release to record the actions by admins in the backend?

I keep getting this error when i did everything exactly like it said in the installation guide, which causes all the admin cp stuff for the mod to get 404 errors. Is there any kind of fix for this?