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

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by Epihunter

Thanks for this mod. I'm hoping I can get it to work! I am a relative newbie with a forum of 2200 members.

I installed the mod (vb version 4.2.2) and I can see that it is installed, but I can't see it on the forum anywhere or any way to access it. I read most of the posts here and found out that I need to create a tab using navigation manager for the awards, which I did, and I pointed it toward the award.php file location. But when I click on the tab, I get a screen asking me for my vbulletin license number?

Is there a way I can access this program without creating an awards tab? What am I doing wrong? I am at a loss. Thanks for any help.

You have some other issue going on if clicking on awards.php is asking for your vbulletin license number. As far as I'm aware the only location in vbulletin where that number is requested is in the install folder, which you should have been required to delete if you'd properly upgraded your forum to vb4.2.2. You can easily check that nowhere in this mod is that number being requested.

[masonox]

Hello, I have tried everything. I can not get the product to create a new thread. I have full administrator rights, and have tried putting it in different thread id's some with higher permissions, and some that are open to every registered user.

ID's I have tried are
23
23-News-and-Announcements

Nothing works, I don't have any additional anti spam installed. Help?

[masonox]

Im holding off on giving awards because I Just can't seem to solve this problem. I am the site admin, with privilege to post in the forum....nothing I have tried over the last hour will get this mod to start a thread. Help

Originally Posted by masonox

Hello, I have tried everything. I can not get the product to create a new thread. I have full administrator rights, and have tried putting it in different thread id's some with higher permissions, and some that are open to every registered user.

ID's I have tried are
23
23-News-and-Announcements

Nothing works, I don't have any additional anti spam installed. Help?

[Mobo]

Originally Posted by masonox

Im holding off on giving awards because I Just can't seem to solve this problem. I am the site admin, with privilege to post in the forum....nothing I have tried over the last hour will get this mod to start a thread. Help

Are you trying to have it post when you issue the award or when someone requests/recommends it?

This mod only creates a thread/post when an award is requested, not when you give one out to someone.

I would have loved it if it would create a new thread in the forum of my choice when I have someone an award... an announcement to the community that the user received the award.

[masonox]

Originally Posted by Mobo

Are you trying to have it post when you issue the award or when someone requests/recommends it?

This mod only creates a thread/post when an award is requested, not when you give one out to someone.

I would have loved it if it would create a new thread in the forum of my choice when I have someone an award... an announcement to the community that the user received the award.

Dangit, yes that is what it was....hmm its a nice feature, but it was not what i was hoping it would be.

Thanks for solving this mystery for me.

[Mobo]

No worries. i was disappointed in the way it worked as well.

[Crotan]

Fixed - version check page not working

I know this was in the changelog for 4.0.6

However,

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by Crotan

Fixed - version check page not working

I know this was in the changelog for 4.0.6

However,

The awards version check in the left menu was fixed. The version check in the products page is still pooched.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by masonox

Hello, I have tried everything. I can not get the product to create a new thread. I have full administrator rights, and have tried putting it in different thread id's some with higher permissions, and some that are open to every registered user.

ID's I have tried are
23
23-News-and-Announcements

Nothing works, I don't have any additional anti spam installed. Help?

It should simply require the number itself not the full url or snippet as you posted so yes just "23" should work.

• 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? Therefor you create a new forum and only allow viewing to normal members without any posting rights etc.
• If your having users requesting ranks every min or two, adjust your minimum time between posts to be one minute otherwise if you have a minimum time between post set you may run into issues.

[AK47-]

Quick question, If a user purchases a usergroup can i set it so soon as he gets moved to a usergroup he receives an award automatically?