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

[Crotan]

Originally Posted by Dave234

I see that the mod has been updated. Is it correct that we should now download YaAS-4.0.4.zip and YaAS-Automation-R2.zip?

Can you provide step by step instructions on how to install this mod?

Thanks!

• Backup MySQL database
• Turn Off vbulletin
• Turn off plugin system
• Upload the contents of upload to your forum directory
• import xml
• Turn back on everything
• Enjoy!

That's just for YaAS 4.0.4 The automation R2 package is an addon, and isn't required as far as I'm aware.

Thanks for the update too!

[Thunderbird8]

Automation wasn't updated, I don't think.

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by EasyEazy

Hi squidsk

After updating there seems to be a problem with the templates in the member info. See the pictures below. The first one was an older version of this mod and the one below is the new version. See how the new version the awards are mashed together with no spacing. Any chance you could help?

<snip>images</snip>

Thanks

Given I didn't change any of the layouts my guess would be that you have stuff in additional.css that changes the padding/margins since the mod was updated to include additional.css template modifications.

Originally Posted by Thunderbird8

Automation wasn't updated, I don't think.

No it wasn't updated.

[Ravallojr]

Keeps giving me weird errors

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by Ravallojr

Keeps giving me weird errors

You need to be a little more specific than that if you'd like some help.

[EasyEazy]

Originally Posted by squidsk

Given I didn't change any of the layouts my guess would be that you have stuff in additional.css that changes the padding/margins since the mod was updated to include additional.css template modifications.

Hi Squidsk

I have removed any content from the additional.css and its still the same. Any thing else you can think of it could be?

*update*

I dont appear to have any additional.css code in any of the templates for this mod. is this correct?

[fishmaster]

Is this the security upgrade to the below:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...265893&page=12

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by EasyEazy

Hi Squidsk

I have removed any content from the additional.css and its still the same. Any thing else you can think of it could be?

*update*

I dont appear to have any additional.css code in any of the templates for this mod. is this correct?

You won't directly. 4 of the templates, those with a head html section, now have {vb:raw headinclude_bottom} in them, that will include the content in the additional.css template.

I will correct what I said earlier though. There are no layout changes if you had previously applied my unofficial, since I wasn't in charge of the mod at the time, 4.0.3 upgrade. None of those changes should have the effect you're describing though. To see the changes you can click on the link in my sig as it still points to the old changes or just take a look at the change log file in the mod.

Originally Posted by fishmaster

Is this the security upgrade to the below:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...265893&page=12

No, that's a mod based off the code for this one, patching this mod does not necessarily mean that the other mod is safe to use.

[EasyEazy]

Originally Posted by squidsk

You won't directly. 4 of the templates, those with a head html section, now have {vb:raw headinclude_bottom} in them, that will include the content in the additional.css template.

I will correct what I said earlier though. There are no layout changes if you had previously applied my unofficial, since I wasn't in charge of the mod at the time, 4.0.3 upgrade. None of those changes should have the effect you're describing though. To see the changes you can click on the link in my sig as it still points to the old changes or just take a look at the change log file in the mod..

Would it be possible for you to take a look into this for me if I send you the details?

[netzwart]

Originally Posted by Crotan

• Backup MySQL database
• Turn Off vbulletin
• Turn off plugin system
• Upload the contents of upload to your forum directory
• import xml
• Turn back on everything
• Enjoy!

Thanks for the instructions! However, I don?t want to make a completely new installation, I need to update the existing MOD without loosing data of the persons who already have awards and without loosing graphic files and definitions of existing awards.

Is there a different approach for updating the existing MOD ?

Thanks in advance

Netzwart