My forum is closed to the public. Will this work with it?

Cool! I just noticed that your reply one minute prior to my post was similar to what I was asking. ;)

Any plans on adding a "Photo Album" like the centralized Zoints? :)

*edit*
I also has some other questions in post #153

Thanks a lot for the fast responses... good work. ;)

Thank you for the reply Dchapman, that's good to know. Hopefully the affiliate idea will be possible in some way. I suppose we will come to that when were ready.

I know you have a lot of posts to get through, but just if you missed it, I had another batch of questions in the post on top of this page;) #151

There is no difference. vBadvanced is one of our distribution partners and Brian is one of our engineers.

Yep, no problem. To get the header at the top you'll simply add code to the global header area in /z/zadmin.php - the footer would be a little more difficult right now, but we're going to make it much easier once we put out a new feature release.

You can change the buttons, but the actual links/code for that need to stay there due to the interconnective nature of this software. A small degree of standardization needs to remain so people traveling between communities don't get confused. Think of it as traveling along the freeway from state to state. How messed up would you get if one state decided not to use freeway signs?

No, the /z/ is the directory you install everything into. That's important because we plan a huge marketing blitz based upon that which will drive a lot of traffic to Zoints Local communities...

Haven't been able to keep up, is there a central repository for mods?

And I was was wondering if can I get this to brew beer? A nice lighter beer would be nice. Prefer it be cold, but I have a fridge. Would I need a mod for the fridge?

Just playin'! Great addition and I'm happy to see it's a local install. How much of my users information is being sent to the Zoints server?

What is a tour?

Thanks for the detailed reply:)

That's cool that this and the vba one are both the same, saves having to choose one over the other. Cool about the footer too:)

So you mean the actual code has to stay but we can edit out the nav buttons? to make it look as if nothing is there but the code can remain hidden?

Ok that's cool about the /z/ but would there be any way to use VBSEO to have an url of simply sitename.com/username and when you enter that into your browser, it brings you to sitename.com/z/username? It would just be a lot better for users to be able to tell people about their profile being at sitename.com/username, rather than having to add /z/ between it. Having it redirect to the url where the /z/ is in between is no problem.

Yes. The header is very easy. The footer (a present) a little harder. But the first feature update will make that easy.

I don't see why not.

If nobody beats us to it, we'll be providing a means to integrate it.

No, sorry.

Thank you :)

There seems to be a bug with the moderation system. You should be able to do that. We'll get it fixed, my apologies. And we'll be adding many more settings in the coming releases to provide more and more control for forum owners :)

Yep, no problem. However, the profiles will be open to the public unless your members close them to guests (there are comprehensive and easy to use privacy controls).

I've reported this to our engineers and will get back to you when I have an answer.

While nothing is ever set in stone, current plans call for integrations with other photo software.

Yes, http://dev.zoints.com :)

We'll code that right after our engineers figure out how to code the attractive female android addon i've been requesting.

Only what is shown to guests (which we state in the privacy area and splash page). So anything being indexed by Google might be indexed by us too, just more efficiently and quickly. If they turn off guest viewing with the privacy controls, then they lock Google and us out.

We took the script we wrote to easily create these and included it in Zoints Local. You can choose to add the tours to your help.php area with a single click. Basically, if your members have a question, you can create a tour in minutes and add it to help.php which acts as a FAQ of sorts.

Just installed and it looks great. One big question, how do I change the style to match my community?

I just installed and is not working.

When I click on the the link for Zoints is says that Zoints in turned off, but in the vbulletin option is ON. I try to turn OFF and then ON again and now is always OFF.

Any Ideas? I want to figure out in my small forum before I add it to my other 3 large forums.

Thanks!

Greetings,

This is caused by a conflict with your "member bots" hack. To proceed, simply disable that plugin. We will be providing a permanent resolution to this in RC3.

Hi Ipuck,

It sounds like you installed the vBulletin product successfully. Have you uploaded the /z/ files and run through the installer at http://yourdomain.com/z/install/index.php ?

Howdy. This is the quick and dirty explanation. We're working on a much more in depth tutorial as I type this.

A. Creating a default style is easy. Using the Zoints Style Editor, create styles as you normally would. As an admin, your custom styles will be automatically listed in the zadmin.php control panel. You can specify the same or different styles for each page by going to zadmin > pages > edit name/style as shown in the image below.

http://img3.zoints.com/zthread/faq-default-style1.png


The style dropdown menu will then be populated with all your custom styles.

http://img3.zoints.com/zthread/faq-default-style2.png

You can also add a logo and header to the top of all /z/ pages on zadmin > settings.

DChapman: Sorry to insist, but I need to know if I can do this :laugh:

Thanks for the quick response on the styles. I was able to find everything you mentioned. However my forums styles are not part of the drop down list. How do I load the style from my forum into the zoints profile area.

Zoints Local is ushering in a new era of interconnectivity between communities. Therefore, a few minor details such as the navbar must remain standard. You can change the images to better fit your styles, but you cannot remove them. Think of it this way: if you were traveling on a freeway from state to state and suddenly one state decided not to use any road signs, it would be a nightmare. Zoints Local is the virtual freeway between communities. As traffic is sent to your community, people need to know where to go :)

It doesn't pull your vBulletin style information. You have to create a new style using the Zoints style editor. Open up your vBulletin style page and plug the info into your Zoints style editor. You'll see it's quite easy to get your style looking like you want :)

Thanks for all the replies. Currently Zoints Local is in 1.0 RC2. Any new features (other than the ones mentioned in the details at the top) planned for the 1.0 Gold? Any roadmap for the gold release? I think I will continue testing it on the zointsdemo.com website, and install it on my live server when Gold is reached. :)

RC3 should be going live tonight. We decided to go with an RC3 because we rewrote the posting system, added the ability to login as a user for moderation purposes, and decided to slip in the ability to globally edit the footer since so many people requested it. Beyond that, we have a feature lock and we hope there is no RC4. :)

Any idea on these questions DC? :)

Couls you also explain a bit about how traffic is sent to our forums through the zoints community please? I was under the impression that the local version just kept everything on our site? Of course getting new traffic is a great thing, just wondering what the extent of it is:)

great... once again... excelent job. :)

on another note... just wanted to comment. I was testing the centralized Zoints and moved the "Sponsored Links" from the center column to the left column and the ad changed from 468x60 size to an 160x600 size ad. I loved that! I would like to implement that same thing on my local Zoints, That the user has the ability to move the ad, but not remove it, and that the ad changes its sizes if it is located in the center column or at the sides. Could that be done, for example, if I have both codes for the two ad sizes? :)

No, the buttons can be changed to different colors/designs but the code itself needs to stay and the buttons needs to show.

I have no idea, sorry. You'd need to ask the guys over there about that :)

1. You will be listed in the Zoints directory at http://zoints.com/communities - we advertise that and will be ramping up the advertising of it in the future.

2. You enter "tags" when you create a directory listing. Let's say your community is about music. You would enter "music" as one of your tags and then your community would be listed at http://zoints.com/tag/music - interest driven traffic is the best there is.

3. The search is global across all communities. Search for someone from California between the age of 23 and 35 and if someone on your community chose to share that information (they don't have to) then they come up as the result and the link, when clicked, takes the searcher to your forum.

That, and more. We want to drive as much traffic to communities that use Zoints as possible. Its a synergistic relationship. If you guys do well, we do well and vice versa.

We will indeed be releasing that code for use. We would have bundled it with Zoints Local but then Google would have gotten mad at us (its against their TOS). I don't know if you noticed, but if you change your style on Zoints.com the Google ad color automatically changes with it too. :cool:

Nice... didn't noticed the style change.

Although I was planning of using the phpAdsNew 2 code so I could display both my own ads and Google Ads. The option that the size changes depending on the position of the block its great. :)

Thanks again for the reply. Sounds good. Hopefully it will return good rewards for everyone who uses it:) Nice idea. Keep up the good work.

Any idea when Gold will be out? You seem to have a dedicated, speedy team anyway:)

Many Thanks :)

okay... i installed it and it works great for 3.63.... (test server)..... after i installed the local part.... i installed the profile part... there you can link back and forth to your forum and zoints page... this is really really nice...

when i get home, i am going to load this on my production site... and i think my members will have a good time with this...

thanks.. and good job!!!

If anyone has this installed on a page with headers and footers, please link to it:)

I'm glad you like it :) I give you my word it is going to get a LOT better.

I installed it but I ended up un-installing it because of the search page. I don't like that when my members search they search all of Zoints.com (and since it's the default page it's an even bigger pain), I perfer to keep my memberbase locally only (unless they choose to become a member globally themselves and then link thier profile). If you made the search page search local profiles by default (checked unless they uncheck it) I will re-install it. Even if you are willing to tell me how to modify it that would work too..

Also if it could be made to use the header, footer, navbar like photopost does with VB it would improve it greatly...


If you made a version that ONLY used my site I would even be willing to buy it. I don't like being dependant on another site, I like everything done Inhouse... If you made it like VBulletin is (you can customize it all you want as long as you keep the copyright) I know many people would be interested..

Thanks

Installed.
Perhaps my style is conflicting with a few things.
I can't get the links in either the navbar or the postbit to appear.
Tried a combination of turning off the automatic template edits feature and/or editing manually. Same result.

I like the hack on the whole.
But I do wonder if certain kinds of communities could somehow be excluded from the search database, or even the 'community of the day' feature?

Great concept.
Not giving up on it yet:)

I've been tweaking the styles to match my forum. It is getting there but I'm not sure how to do a couple of things. Is there a way to fix the page width? My forum is fixed and I want it to match. How do i remove the dotted line that is around all my modules?

Strange. You're the second person to report this today. We're having an engineer investigate. Obviously manual edits should allow the links to appear. I'll get back to you when I know more.

We plan to implement a rating system as it is understandable that some communities don't want to have search query certain types of forums. Expect that in our first major feature release build.

Thanks. Don't worry, we listen to forum owners and will continually improve this product so it benefits most. Obviously we can't be all things to all people, but we can be many things to most :) Thanks for the feedback!