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Originally Posted by Jah-Hools

I am only interested in:

an expanded user profile that is easy & fun for my forum members to use to
Upload photos, videos, MP3's, Give detailed info about themselves and interact with other members of the same forum

I am not interested in:

providing my members a conduit to go networking with members of other forums

with that in mind is this the right product?

If so, do you have any tips on how to steer forum members towards the Zoints profile pages and get them to invest time in filling out the data fields?

Is there a way to 'kill off' the VB profile area - and force folks to use the Zoints Profile area? In other words.. What do people do with a VB CP area AND a Zoints Profile area running at the same time? Zoints doesn't seems to commandeer the User CP admin area of VB, its its own separate area.. Any tips for me..?

Is there a forum to discuss this - I could NOT find it... Thanks v much in advance..

If you do not want any links, what so ever, coming out in which your forum members could go elsewhere, likely this isn't the perfect solution for you. Although I should remind you that it is a two way street in that just as easily as your members could leave elsewhere, members from elsewhere could leave for your site. But with that said, in complete honesty, I don't think significant recruitment or member dropoff has yet been attributed to Zoints having a Communities button, as typically members are already happy with the forum they are already at and would no longer be there if they weren't. I am very concerned about those types of issues with my own forum members (for instance, new members can't PM for 5 days and 50 posts on my forum) but before I was a staff member on Zoints, I used Zoints and never felt any noticeable ill effects from it with members being tempted to elsewhere.

As for tips, I would suggest running a contest for who can create the best profile. Whether it's for an actual prize or cash, or for something on the site (like points if you have a point shop or something creative that your members would like) and have people post their profiles for you and your team to look at. Narrow it down 16 or whatever, and do brackets (leading to an ultimate winner) or just have an outright vote on it.

And with removing the Edit Profile functionality of vB, I would suggest simply removing the links to that part of your site or change the link to go to their Zoints profile (I can help with this if you would like, let me know.)

Originally Posted by jameshotmovies

This is a very basic feature so I was surprised it didn't work.

That is a feature that works James, can some forums have problems with it though? Sure. Open up a ticket if you haven't already and one of the guys on the team will be sure to try to help you out with this.

Originally Posted by The-Ensemble

This mod looks great but is there a way I could just use the blog feature without the rest? I don't wanna have loads of features I'm not gonna use.

Hi Ensemble, this is possible. As Danny (I believe) responded, you can disable pages from the ZAdmin, including the profile and network and such... so only the blog is showing. If you need more detailed instructions, let me know.

Originally Posted by Jah-Hools

I wonder if there are any guestimates on when the VBulletin networking option might be available...??

Jah, I really couldn't tell you, you would have to ask them.

Originally Posted by Jah-Hools

So there is a big forum for the SEO plug in - where can folks discus this one? Is this thread it?

So - I am wondering if some of my brainier forum members might make a far better job of the profile lay out than I ever could? Then I could take their 'style' and perhaps 'lock it down.. as the default style for everyone? Thats possible right?

OK another one - how do i change the "My Vehicle" display to say something else?

Thanks in advance..

Hi again Jah, this is the only thread to discuss Zoints Local at vbulletin.org, but we have additional forums of our own at network.zoints.com.

Hmm, that's an interesting question and I think it is possible. After someone has created a style, go to your ZAdmin, click Pages and then click Edit Name/Style for a particular page and look for the name of the style that the individual created. If you don't see it, let me know as while I think that should work as is, there might be one holdup that I'll tell you to account for if it arises.

Alright and as for changing the name of My Vehicle, go to your Zadmin, click Pages, and then click Edit Name/Style (like listed above) and simply change the name of the page to what you would like.

- Reid


(Edit: Thanks for the help bc3tech! I didn't make my way over to the next page yet.)