Major Additions - Yet Another Awards System

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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

[Skyrider]

Originally Posted by squidsk

It should be working. What version of the automation mod are you running?

YaAS-Automation-R4.zip, as far as I'm know this is the latest.

[Kaminah]

Originally Posted by squidsk

I'm not following what your asking for could you please explain in more detail.

We have 25k members on our board, i want to EXCLUDE guests/banned users from our Award automation as when we want to award a 5 years badge, but want to exclude Guests we can't, as there's no other option to exclude guests, we simply define the time at which users have been registered, and with a board that has 26k members we have over 12k guests sitting with an award that we don't want, same goes for awarding double Criteria, like is that possible? if not can it be done in the next update? as it's a pain in the ass trying to award our veterans of 5 years that are actual members, and seeing 12k Guests also have the badge as we can't blacklist ranks....

[alcazarx]

@izenberg: What you want can be done using new images/awards as you shown, no need to change the plugin.
What you probably meant (and me've seen in an award plugin for a diffrent forum script) is to have a number next to the image, depicting how many of that award the user has, which should be possible.

Like:
(2)___ (3)

(Without the "__" of course )

[ggrimes620]

When uninstalling this product, I receive the following errors at the top only on viewtopic:

PHP Warning: Creating default object from empty value in ..../includes/class_postbit.php(345) : eval()'d code on line 73

PHP Warning: Creating default object from empty value in ..../includes/class_postbit.php(345) : eval()'d code on line 73

Any idea what could be causing that?

[akz645]

Originally Posted by alcazarx

@izenberg: What you want can be done using new images/awards as you shown, no need to change the plugin.
What you probably meant (and me've seen in an award plugin for a diffrent forum script) is to have a number next to the image, depicting how many of that award the user has, which should be possible.

Like:
(2)___ (3)

(Without the "__" of course )

I personally don't consider that a good solution.

awards.php -> Wouldn't look very good, if the same award is posted multiple times (e.g: 10 times) as different images with different stacks.
Also the admin/mod would probably have to remove the x1 image award from the user and then award with the x2 image award instead and so on- which can be time consuming & not very efficient.

Anybody who has suggested what alcazarx has suggested, probably does not find the obvious method you stated as a solution.

[alcazarx]

What would be the "obvious" method then?

What me meant is to show every Award the user has only once and in () behind how often he got it.

Thanks.

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by Kaminah

We have 25k members on our board, i want to EXCLUDE guests/banned users from our Award automation as when we want to award a 5 years badge, but want to exclude Guests we can't, as there's no other option to exclude guests, we simply define the time at which users have been registered, and with a board that has 26k members we have over 12k guests sitting with an award that we don't want, same goes for awarding double Criteria, like is that possible? if not can it be done in the next update? as it's a pain in the ass trying to award our veterans of 5 years that are actual members, and seeing 12k Guests also have the badge as we can't blacklist ranks....

I'm working on excluding users who are in banned usergroups. I'm not sure what you mean by "guests", the only guest account will never get an award through the automation process since there's no actual user account for "guest" (i.e. userid zero).

Originally Posted by ggrimes620

When uninstalling this product, I receive the following errors at the top only on viewtopic:


Any idea what could be causing that?

Not related to yaas at all. That file is not called during uninstall so the errors would not be related to uninstalling yaas. If that error showed up after uninstall than it for sure has nothing to do with yaas since after uninstall all the hook code for yaas is removed from your database and isn't present to be executed. Look for other products you have installed that have a plugin on the postbit_display_complete hook location.

Originally Posted by Skyrider

YaAS-Automation-R4.zip, as far as I'm know this is the latest.

The fix suggested in the other thread you posted in should fix your issue.

[Kaminah]

Originally Posted by squidsk

I'm working on excluding users who are in banned usergroups. I'm not sure what you mean by "guests", the only guest account will never get an award through the automation process since there's no actual user account for "guest" (i.e. userid zero).

By guest i mean't the original Usergroup (2) as we have that set as our "Guest" Rank before applying to join the Team/Clan as a trial Usergroup (12) then getting member after 3 weeks Usergroup (13) We want to exclude Ranks from being awarded automated awards, as people Under the Usergroup 2 (default) get them.

Example: White = Guest (Default usergroup upon registration 2) and Banned
Both being included in a 1 year Automation award 365 Days registered.

[Code Geass]

Hello,

Is this product compatible with vBulletin 4.2.3 version ?

Because I used to give some members awards and I choose to give them a notification via PM and E-mail , but now when I give award with PM or E-mail it wont send any notification and shows to me a blue background (empty) page , but it gives them without notification

Also when I go to "Diagnostics" It shows blue background (empty) page.

I have installed this only "YaAS-4.0.9.zip" I also tried to re-upload it again and I tried to re-install but still these 2 issues above exist.

[squidsk]

Originally Posted by Code Geass

Hello,

Is this product compatible with vBulletin 4.2.3 version ?

Because I used to give some members awards and I choose to give them a notification via PM and E-mail , but now when I give award with PM or E-mail it wont send any notification and shows to me a blue background (empty) page , but it gives them without notification

Also when I go to "Diagnostics" It shows blue background (empty) page.

I have installed this only "YaAS-4.0.9.zip" I also tried to re-upload it again and I tried to re-install but still these 2 issues above exist.

There's likely an incompatibility with something since I use vb4.2.3 as my test environment and things work correctly. You'll need to check your error logs to see what if anything has been reported. As for the diagnostics page it doesn't do anything in the current version.

Originally Posted by Kaminah

By guest i mean't the original Usergroup (2) as we have that set as our "Guest" Rank before applying to join the Team/Clan as a trial Usergroup (12) then getting member after 3 weeks Usergroup (13) We want to exclude Ranks from being awarded automated awards, as people Under the Usergroup 2 (default) get them.

Example: White = Guest (Default usergroup upon registration 2) and Banned
Both being included in a 1 year Automation award 365 Days registered.

As of now there will be nothing added to exclude (or include) specific groups from receiving awards other than the option to exclude members of banned usergroups.