Major Additions - Yet Another Ranks System

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

I've had quite a few PM's in regards to this and seeing as how once upon a time I administered a gaming tournament forum it came in handy... we had virtual armies in battlefield games with Generals, LtCol's, Captains, squads of 6 and enjoyed a rank structure along with our awards so we converted the Awards mod into a Ranks mod, many also had a need for it and now we have it for 4.x. This is a complete re-write of the 4.x Yet Another Awards System by CypherSTL and Xanlamin ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232684 ) with updates including one fix by another community member for the profile tabs (noted in Changelog.txt). I hope everyone enjoys it who finds a use for it .

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

FEATURES:
In AdminCP

• Can Create/Edit/Delete/Reorder categories/sub-categories in ACP (with category name and description)
• Can Create/Edit/Delete ranks in ACP (with Rank Name, Description, Icon URL, Image URL)
• Can Move one (or all) rank(s) from one category to another
• Can set some ranks un-classified (not displayed for public)
• Can re-order ranks in ranks showcase
• Issue ranks to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
• Remove ranks from members

In ModCP

• Issue ranks to members, based on username or userid, with Issue Reason
• Remove ranks from members

Front page & other

• Display ranks list in with: Rank Name, Description, Icon, Image, and Members who get each rank.
• Display ranks showcase in profile, with Rank information, Issue time and reason
• Display rank icons in postbit (showthread, showpost, announcement, private)
• Separate Rank Request/Recommendation Forms
• CSS Customizable
• Points System *Requires MySQL 5.0+

Attention:

If you do not properly setup this modification you will see errors such as:

Originally Posted by faraz_hamza

Something unexpected has happened, your rank request cannot be sent at this time. Please contact a site administrator for assistance.

I am getting this error when i recommend or issue rank request?

how to fix it ?

Basically here's the short on this:

• Edit your usergroups, for each usergroup set whether they can request and recommend ranks.
• Setup the mod options in AdminCP > Ranks System > Rank System Settings.
• If your having the requests or recommendations posted as a New Thread OR New Post within a existing thread please ensure that the members usergroup has permission to do so, in other words they can't post a new rank request into a private admin-only forum or a new post in a admin only thread correct? Bingo . You can create a new forum and only allow viewing to normal members .
• If your having users requesting ranks every min or two, adjust your minimum time between posts to be one minute.
• Try disabling the Points System, do you still have a issue?

Other issues:

• What is the minimum version of MySQL Required?
  - The core of the ranks sytem will function on MySQL 4.1. However, in order to use the Points System you must be running at least MySQL 5.0+
• I'm seeing output like "-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: ranks_rankusers_bit -->" before it displays members. Why?
  In your AdminCP > Settings > Options > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments = OFF
• Styling issues? - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....58&postcount=2
• If you have any other issues, post them however I need to know if this was the 2nd, 3rd or 4th request, what was done before the error and if issuing to another user worked afterwords! Thanks!

[Ik0n88]

I get this error when requesting an award:

Something unexpected has happened, your rank request cannot be sent at this time. Please contact a site administrator for assistance.

I have read the main post and all settings are correct. The request even comes up in the admincp and everything, just gives users that error.

[WoODoO]

Originally Posted by Mobo

Here you go, YAAS.

Perfect... tnks :up:

[Ik0n88]

Originally Posted by Ik0n88

I get this error when requesting an award:

Something unexpected has happened, your rank request cannot be sent at this time. Please contact a site administrator for assistance.

I have read the main post and all settings are correct. The request even comes up in the admincp and everything, just gives users that error.

Any idea what could be causing this?

[sadiq6210]

Thanks dear :up: I will install it
Nominated and much appreciated

[Mobo]

Originally Posted by Ik0n88

I get this error when requesting an award:

Something unexpected has happened, your rank request cannot be sent at this time. Please contact a site administrator for assistance.

I have read the main post and all settings are correct. The request even comes up in the admincp and everything, just gives users that error.

Just a quick check, but do you get this same error when you are using the vB default style?

[Ik0n88]

Originally Posted by Mobo

Just a quick check, but do you get this same error when you are using the vB default style?

Yes, same error occurs.

[Mobo]

Humm, not sure what it is. Do you get any errors when you recommend a rank for someone? The next step would be to disable all of your other mods and turn them back on one at a time checking to see if the issue is there or not. That will narrow it down to either being caused by a conflict with another mod or not.

[EasyEazy]

Originally Posted by Ik0n88

Any idea what could be causing this?

I had this issue. the way around it was in this setting:

Submission: Rank Submissions PM Username

Enter your forum username. Not sure if it will work for anyone else though.

[Ik0n88]

Originally Posted by EasyEazy

I had this issue. the way around it was in this setting:

Submission: Rank Submissions PM Username

Enter your forum username. Not sure if it will work for anyone else though.

Thank you very much man. That worked. One more question though, is there a way to get rid of the rank requests after I 'grant' them. After I grant the award, I have to manually delete the request.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Mobo

I'm not sure if you can do that with just this Mod, but I think if you used both YARS and YAAS, they would be separated by default... again, I think. You would use one of the Mods to handel your Badges and the other to handle the Medals.

Yes they are separated by default... everything "awards" or "award" or "a" or "au" was replaced in all the coding so there should be no conflicts HOWEVER some tend to become confused and see some of the issues with the Awards mod (not sure if they have updated it yet) for example the messed up profile tab and assume it's this mod conflicting yet it's not . So your more than welcome to run both however if you have any issues with the Awards mod please post for support in that thread .