Good news on the changes.

Is it possible to allow a nominated Usergroup to Award from a particular category. i.e. someone who is not Admin or Mod.

And bypass the need for using cps and issue awards directly from dropdowns on postbit?

It currently isn't possible for someone who isn't an admin/mod to issue an award. Though as I mentioned the award request system is being re-worked.

I also wouldn't allow issuing of awards from postbit dropdown, but might consider adding the ability to start the recommend/request award option from the postbit.

Thanks.

The guy who ran the Forum before us started with a modified version of modcp to allow another member to award - giving access only to the relevant category and nothing more. He then went on to create a drop down from postbit (?) which gave a direct way to issue awards (Staff and one other).

Annoyingly he passed on the Forum without any background paperwork, and I've not been able to replicate the modification since we upgraded to v4.

The modification to modcp still works.

I have the files he created (I think all of them, as they'll still be on the server) - not too sure about any template modifications.

Its squidsk decision what to include and what to update, although he seems to use some of me and CAG's suggestions :rolleyes:

Anyway, me think Awards and such should be handled by the board administration (meaning admins and mods) not regular users.
In old phpBB and phpFusion we had a similar mod and it was always given by the board administration (in our vB Forum currently only Global Moderators can give awards from ModCP and only those that are "enabled" by administrators).

@squidsk: Some questions.
Aren't they currently not included in display by default?
No whether if displayed or not me thinks that "inactive" awards should not be given in either ModCP or ACP. Thats why they're inactive :p
Good idea, currently (at our forum) any admin with permission to manage awards can do anything in the mod. Maybe we will test this and report results. Thanks.

@alcazarx : Of course it's squidsk's choice on what to do with his mods!
We've used this Award System on our Forum since 2007.

I merely offered suggestions, as do others on these boards.

I only explain what facility we use/could use - and the ability of one other usergroup to issue awards reflects the way our Forum operates.

Nothing wrong with suggestions?

You two have made good suggestions and I try to implement any and all good suggestions that people make.

In modcp in the current version they are displayed and able to be awarded. That will no longer be the case. This was actually a request you made. On the admincp side, I'm leaving it as is where admins can issue inactive awards or not, as I don't think limiting admins or making them jump through hoops in areas they have permission is beneficial.
I felt that the two aspects, issuing and managing, were sufficiently different that it warranted two different permissions.

Oops :o ,we already did it in both ModCP and ACP. We dont see a point in giving Awards that are "disabled". If you want to leave it as is, ok fine.

As told, we tried it and its working here (the hard part was to tell vB to read the updated bitfield_custom.xml again :p .We had to use tools.php for this.), but we had to split "award.php" (copying it to "award_issue.php") to avoid too much in-file code changes. So now we have the original file for those who can manage awards and the copy for those who can only give/revoke awards. Maybe you have a better workaround in your update.

Anyway, you'll have 3 permissions for the Award mod then, since you already Need the Standard
"Can manage Settings" to edit the mods settings :rolleyes:

Could someone clarify the setting "Award User Manager"

thanks

Geoff

If you go through the Award Manager you can do stuff with awards but everything is organized by awards (and award categories). Award User Manager is where you go to deal with awards for a specific user. When you click on it you'll be taken to a simplified version of the user search page from admincp/user.php which will let you search for a user you want to manager the awards for.

Ah - right - OK thank you for the explanation .... Something never used and I was just curious...

So, here are all changes we have in our Award System (including the award_request_in_modcp as suggested by the author) - if someone find them useful.

@squidsk: If this is not permitted, attachment will be removed. You can use it for further updates, since you planned already some functionality of it :rolleyes:

@CAG CheechDogg: Sorry, mass-manage of awards is not included, since we dont have this :(
Its up to master squidsk to implement it.

/* edit
The plugin_code_change as in https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1793 has to be done too, to make the file visible in ModeratorCP.
*/

Is there a way I can allow a mod to assign awards?

You need to enable that function in the Award settings.

Any chance we can exclude ranks from awards? like guests on automation?

I'm not following what your asking for could you please explain in more detail.

He means usergroups my Man ...

<-- also thought, he meant how to hide Awards System to certain groups.

@Kaminah: Either wait for the next update, Master squidsk is planning to add that or use our modifications for this permission.

Hello @squidsk

First I like to thank you for this great plugin, this is Fantastic!

I have request if you could add this option to plugin, it would be great.

when we are giving Awards to member, and we do it again is it possible to have option to stack that award instead of showing that same award 2 times? like this :

This https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2016/04/40.png

To be like this :
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2016/03/1.png

Does anyone know if the 'award automation' is working properly for additional usergroups? For some reason, the automation is refusing to give awards to additional, while it works on primary usergroups.

This would be a major rewrite of the code and isn't likely to happen for awhile, though I would like to make that change at some point.

It should be working. What version of the automation mod are you running?

YaAS-Automation-R4.zip, as far as I'm know this is the latest.

We have 25k members on our board, i want to EXCLUDE guests/banned users from our Award automation as when we want to award a 5 years badge, but want to exclude Guests we can't, as there's no other option to exclude guests, we simply define the time at which users have been registered, and with a board that has 26k members we have over 12k guests sitting with an award that we don't want, same goes for awarding double Criteria, like is that possible? if not can it be done in the next update? as it's a pain in the ass trying to award our veterans of 5 years that are actual members, and seeing 12k Guests also have the badge as we can't blacklist ranks....

@izenberg: What you want can be done using new images/awards as you shown, no need to change the plugin.
What you probably meant (and me've seen in an award plugin for a diffrent forum script) is to have a number next to the image, depicting how many of that award the user has, which should be possible.

Like:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2016/04/40.png (2)___https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2016/04/40.png (3)

(Without the "__" of course :p )

When uninstalling this product, I receive the following errors at the top only on viewtopic:
Any idea what could be causing that?

I personally don't consider that a good solution.

awards.php -> Wouldn't look very good, if the same award is posted multiple times (e.g: 10 times) as different images with different stacks.
Also the admin/mod would probably have to remove the x1 image award from the user and then award with the x2 image award instead and so on- which can be time consuming & not very efficient.

Anybody who has suggested what alcazarx has suggested, probably does not find the obvious method you stated as a solution.

What would be the "obvious" method then? :confused:

What me meant is to show every Award the user has only once and in () behind how often he got it.

Thanks.

I'm working on excluding users who are in banned usergroups. I'm not sure what you mean by "guests", the only guest account will never get an award through the automation process since there's no actual user account for "guest" (i.e. userid zero).

Not related to yaas at all. That file is not called during uninstall so the errors would not be related to uninstalling yaas. If that error showed up after uninstall than it for sure has nothing to do with yaas since after uninstall all the hook code for yaas is removed from your database and isn't present to be executed. Look for other products you have installed that have a plugin on the postbit_display_complete hook location.

The fix suggested in the other thread you posted in should fix your issue.

By guest i mean't the original Usergroup (2) as we have that set as our "Guest" Rank before applying to join the Team/Clan as a trial Usergroup (12) then getting member after 3 weeks Usergroup (13) We want to exclude Ranks from being awarded automated awards, as people Under the Usergroup 2 (default) get them.

Example: White = Guest (Default usergroup upon registration 2) and Banned
Both being included in a 1 year Automation award 365 Days registered.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2016/06/1.png

Hello,

Is this product compatible with vBulletin 4.2.3 version ?

Because I used to give some members awards and I choose to give them a notification via PM and E-mail , but now when I give award with PM or E-mail it wont send any notification and shows to me a blue background (empty) page , but it gives them without notification

Also when I go to "Diagnostics" It shows blue background (empty) page.

I have installed this only "YaAS-4.0.9.zip" I also tried to re-upload it again and I tried to re-install but still these 2 issues above exist.

There's likely an incompatibility with something since I use vb4.2.3 as my test environment and things work correctly. You'll need to check your error logs to see what if anything has been reported. As for the diagnostics page it doesn't do anything in the current version.

As of now there will be nothing added to exclude (or include) specific groups from receiving awards other than the option to exclude members of banned usergroups.

any chance you can atleast provide us with a modded cron to block Guest/banned from being included? as an external download away from the core project, as i'm having to use

to remove the 20k Guest/banned users from my awards >.<, it's not fun when we have another 30k normal members and unsure of how to block guests/banned from automatically being included everytime the cronjob goes through, at a time we have around 800~ updated due to time on forum alone

After implementation of https on Forum , I notice the " Awards List " accessible from Forum page is still under http: - Have I missed a setting somewhere ?

Ta in antic

EDIT : Belay that - found it :D

Award System doesn't appear in my admincp, when i install de upload files in "includes" not appear anything , any solution? :(

The current version of yaas does not create a navigation menu item for vb4.2+. You've manually created it and will need to manually edit.

Not sure what you mean by this. You need to upload the entire [B]contents[B] of the upload directory. The other thing to keep in mind is that you might have renamed your admincp and/or modcp and need to rename the corresponding folder in upload before you upload the contents of the upload directory.

Are there still no plans to upgrade or port this to vb5?

No plans to do so.

But there are plans for next update/release (like CAG CheechDogg's suggestion) arent there? :rolleyes:

Which suggestion are you talking about alcazarx ?

i. e. your mass-operations like in -> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1797

I cant seem to get the navagation tab to show :(