[Zoints]

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. This is all installed on MY forum?
A. Correct

Q. What kind of information is shared with Zoints.com? Does Zoints Local store my user's profiles anywhere other than on my site?
A. No!

All your user information stays within the confines of your local database. However, certain data is transferred between your forum and Zoints.com.

When you use Zoints Local and register your forum with Zoints.com, this allows secure communication between your forum and Zoints. With Zoints Local, your members can connect to their Zoints.com account, if they have one, where their interests and other profile settings (such as username, avatar img, and profile url) are transferred from all their Zoints enabled communities into Zoints.com.

This allows direct traffic to your forum, through our custom "tag" pages:

To reiterate: Your user's information is stored locally on your forum's database. Zoints does not control any of your user's profiles or data. Certain data such as user's interests, username, and profile url are sent to Zoints.com to generate traffic to your forum as well as create a reliable network of online communities. User's can connect their profiles on your forum to their Zoints.com account if they do have one.

Q. Is there an autonomous version available?
A. No and in all honesty, we're not considering it at the moment.

Q. I would like to remove the branding at the bottom of a profile, is this possible?
A. If you are interested in this, you can contact us here at our support forums. Otherwise, branding must remain.

Q. Is there a live example of Zoints Local running that I can check out?
A. To see how well people are starting to integrate vbulletin and profiles, see here:

Forum: http://www.strike3forums.com/forums/
Profile: http://www.strike3forums.com/forums/z/missionhockey21/

You can also see a wide variety of forums that have installed Zoints (both new and old versions) in our Community Directory:

http://zoints.com/communities/

Q. I would prefer to utilize the centralized version of Zoints. Can I?
A. No, sorry. Not until we standardize the Zoints Local and Zoints.com code. We do not have an ETA for this.

Q. How do I create a default style for my members?
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.

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

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

Q. Why do I have to register my community with Zoints and get a forum token and authentication key?
A. Zoints Local provides (and will add many more) features that require secure authentication between Zoints and your forum.

Q. My forum uses the Zoints centralized system. Can I switch?
A. Absolutely! The system does it automatically. Please note, you cannot run both.

Q. What browsers do you code for?
A. Firefox 1.x+, IE 6.x+, and Opera 8.x+. Other browsers may or may not work, however, we do not officially support them at this time.

Q. The images in the navigation bar don't fit well with the style I created, can I change them?
A. Yes, you may overwrite those images with your own as long as they are named the same and are easily readable.

Q. Are there any vBadvanced modules that work with this?
A. Of course. Currently there are Recent blog entries and random members.

Q. I have custom profile fields I don't want to lose. What about those?
A. No problem, we created a block that automatically pulls all the custom profile fields. See it here. Blocks can be made to do pretty much anything

Q. Does this work with my existing and custom BB codes?
A. Yes! As an example, this image shows comments using the popular YouTube and Spoiler BB codes.

More helpful documentation is available in the helpfuldocs folder located inside the zip!