Major Additions - Yet Another Awards System

*** CREATE A BACKUP OF YOUR FORUM AND DATABASE BEFORE INSTALLING ***

DESCRIPTION:
This is a Medals/Awards system. Admin can give members awards, and award icons will be displayed in member's profile, posts, as well as in a award list.

FEATURES:
In AdminCP
- Can Create/Edit/Delete/Reorder categories/sub-categories in ACP (with category name and description)
- Can Create/Edit/Delete awards in ACP (with Award Name, Description, Icon URL, Image URL)
- Can Move one (or all) award(s) from one category to another
- Can set some awards un-classified (not displayed for public)
- Can re-order awards in awards showcase
- Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
- Remove awards from members
+ Writes granting/removing awards to the log

In ModCP
- Issue awards to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
- Remove awards from members
+ Writes granting/removing award to the log

Front page
- Display awards list in with: Award Name, Description, Icon, Image, and Members who get each award.
- Display awards showcase in profile, with Award information, Issue time and reason
- Display award icons in postbit (showthread, showpost, announcement, private)

New Features/Additions since 3.8
- Points System
- Separate Award Request/Recommendation Forms
- CSS Customizable

Current Release Version 4.0.9

• Added - Handling of user merges
• Added - Handling of user deletes
• Added - Manage awards on per user basis
• Added - Extra info to the logs for mass removal and editing of issued awards
• Added - Ability to collapse categories on awards.php
• Added - Checksum file for checking for suspect file versions
• Added - Various missing phrases
• Fixed - Memberlist not showing awards when option is active
• Fixed - Navtab not being selected (vb version < 4.2)
• Fixed - Category title not being displayed on awards.php
• Fixed - Logging not working in modcp
• Fixed - A few other minor bugs

[GONUMBER6]

I have installed the upload folder to my FTP client, how do I now get it into my vbulliten? (sorry I am a newb).

Thanks

[Trek]

Originally Posted by GONUMBER6

I have installed the upload folder to my FTP client, how do I now get it into my vbulliten? (sorry I am a newb).

Thanks

Read the readme.txt file included in the ZIP file you downloaded.

[GONUMBER6]

It says for installation instructions "Upload the entire upload folder to your forum root" and then it says "import .xml"

I tried....is there a better desription for this that is more newb friendly? Please help, any help would be grateful.

thanks!

[wolfyman]

Originally Posted by GONUMBER6

It says for installation instructions "Upload the entire upload folder to your forum root" and then it says "import .xml"

I tried....is there a better desription for this that is more newb friendly? Please help, any help would be grateful.

thanks!

You've got a lot to learn, apparently.

Open the "Upload folder" and upload the files to your site via ftp...

images go to images, etc.

To import the xml file, go to your vbulletin admincp > add products > browse, find the file > import.

Don't worry, it gets easier.

[GONUMBER6]

Thank you! I did figure out what I did wrong. I did not add the main product .xml file into my root directory. I only uploaded the contents of the upload folder.

I guess there should be a file for "installing for total newbs"!

Now I understand it, and now I can finally get some sleep. Thanks for your help! Marked as installed!

[Cigarcritic]

Thank you for bringing this Mod to V4.

I had v3 version "disabled" and upgraded to v4, everything works great except I do not have a tab in the profile page. Any help would be appreciated. :up:

[swiftor]

This mod did not carry over my users awards from the previous version... previous version was disabled prior to upgrade... anything I can do to restore?

[CypherSTL]

Originally Posted by Trek

On the same line of thought, I have awards that I want to ALWAYS show in the postbit, and at a specific position. For instance, I have leaders for various groups that after a while retire. I'd like to honor them and their work with an award that shows this, but if they do something that gets them other awards, it'll fall off the postbit. I could raise the number of icons, but... it'll be too much if they get too many awards (which is possible).

Anyway, someone else I'd like to see if you guys can add it in. =)

In the Award Manager, change the display order with the numerical values. Then, go into the Award System Settings, and change the Sorting Order.

Originally Posted by Cigarcritic

Thank you for bringing this Mod to V4.

I had v3 version "disabled" and upgraded to v4, everything works great except I do not have a tab in the profile page. Any help would be appreciated. :up:

If you're running the latest release both YAAS and vB, the tabs do work.

Originally Posted by swiftor

This mod did not carry over my users awards from the previous version... previous version was disabled prior to upgrade... anything I can do to restore?

Go back through all your Awards System Settings, Award Manager, etc. The Awards System does not delete awards during the 3.8 to 4.0 upgrade.

[msarat]

Thank You ..
It's not working fine with UTF-8

when i change some word in xml file to arabic it's appear ?????? .

what is the problem ??

[CypherSTL]

Originally Posted by msarat

Thank You ..
It's not working fine with UTF-8

when i change some word in xml file to arabic it's appear ?????? .

what is the problem ??

I do know that vBulletin 4.0.1 has a UTB-8 Character bug in some cases, and I do believe has already been confirmed to have been fixed in 4.0.2.

That's the only thing I can think of. I simply cannot check, support, integrate different languages, etc.