Hey all,
Following up on the success of Beta 1, we're releasing vBActivity & Awards v3.1.0 Beta 2 for vBulletin 4.x and vBulletin 3.8.x, available immediately to both Pro customers and Lite users. Like Beta 1, this release is 100% made up of the most popular features requested by you, our customers.
The main focus on this release is to fix bugs found in Beta 1, as well as adding some additional convenience & customisation options to existing features.
Most importantly, you now have the option of specifying a "PM Sender" user for each Private Message notification vBActivity sends. This means you could have a "Contest Master" account that's responsible for alerting admins & users about contest happenings, and a separate user entirely for notifying users they have earned a new Achievement.
One of our most requested features was the ability to re-order the way Awards are presented to the user in the postbit. vBActivity & Awards v3.1.0 adds the ability to choose between 3 different display orders: Awarded (Ascending), Awarded (Descending) and AdminCP Display Order. If you prefer to decide the way awards are reordered yourself in the AdminCP, the third option now lets you do that!
For our Pro customers, we've added the ability for users to disable Achievements, Awards and Trophies from displaying in the postbit. If your members prefer an uncluttered browsing experience, this will help them achieve that.
Also exclusively for our Pro customers is a new Contest Type: Raffle Tickets (Threshold)! What this does is partially the same as the "First To Reach X" type; members who reach a particular threshold gain a ticket to a raffle. If they double the target, they get 2 entries, etc. Once the contest ends, X amount of winners are drawn (based on your contest settings). This presents an entirely new way of hosting activity contests, letting you host contests that aren't solely based on who reaches the goal fastest or who has the most activity at the end of the run.
We've also made other tweaks & changes based on your feedback, read the Complete Change Log below for the full scoop.
If you like the product you can show your support by nominating it for mod of the month here: vBActivity & Awards v3 (vB4) - vBulletin.org Forum or here vBActivity & Awards v3 (vB3) - vBulletin.org Forum, and also please rate it to help cancel out the users who 1 star our mods.
Complete Change Log
vBActivity v3.1.0 Beta 2
Define PM Senders
Awards Setting: Postbit Display Order
Global Toggle: Disable "View Activity" Link
(Pro) New Contest Type: Raffle Tickets (Threshold)
(Pro) Per-User Toggle: Disable Achievements
(Pro) Per-User Toggle: Disable Awards
(Pro) Per-User Toggle: Disable Trophies
(Pro) General / Other
Bugfixes
As always, thank you for your continued support
Discuss this news here.
Following up on the success of Beta 1, we're releasing vBActivity & Awards v3.1.0 Beta 2 for vBulletin 4.x and vBulletin 3.8.x, available immediately to both Pro customers and Lite users. Like Beta 1, this release is 100% made up of the most popular features requested by you, our customers.
The main focus on this release is to fix bugs found in Beta 1, as well as adding some additional convenience & customisation options to existing features.
Most importantly, you now have the option of specifying a "PM Sender" user for each Private Message notification vBActivity sends. This means you could have a "Contest Master" account that's responsible for alerting admins & users about contest happenings, and a separate user entirely for notifying users they have earned a new Achievement.
One of our most requested features was the ability to re-order the way Awards are presented to the user in the postbit. vBActivity & Awards v3.1.0 adds the ability to choose between 3 different display orders: Awarded (Ascending), Awarded (Descending) and AdminCP Display Order. If you prefer to decide the way awards are reordered yourself in the AdminCP, the third option now lets you do that!
For our Pro customers, we've added the ability for users to disable Achievements, Awards and Trophies from displaying in the postbit. If your members prefer an uncluttered browsing experience, this will help them achieve that.
Also exclusively for our Pro customers is a new Contest Type: Raffle Tickets (Threshold)! What this does is partially the same as the "First To Reach X" type; members who reach a particular threshold gain a ticket to a raffle. If they double the target, they get 2 entries, etc. Once the contest ends, X amount of winners are drawn (based on your contest settings). This presents an entirely new way of hosting activity contests, letting you host contests that aren't solely based on who reaches the goal fastest or who has the most activity at the end of the run.
We've also made other tweaks & changes based on your feedback, read the Complete Change Log below for the full scoop.
If you like the product you can show your support by nominating it for mod of the month here: vBActivity & Awards v3 (vB4) - vBulletin.org Forum or here vBActivity & Awards v3 (vB3) - vBulletin.org Forum, and also please rate it to help cancel out the users who 1 star our mods.
Complete Change Log
vBActivity v3.1.0 Beta 2
Define PM Senders
- Add separate users as the sender of several vBAA PMs
- Reverts to "same as recipient" if no users are specified
- Complete List:
- Post PM Threshold
- New Achievement
- New Award
- (Pro) New Promotion
- (Pro) New Trophy
- (Pro) New Contest Winner Admin Notification
- (Pro) New Contest Winner User Notification
Awards Setting: Postbit Display Order
- Choose between three display orders
- Awarded (Ascending)
- Awarded (Descending)
- AdminCP Display Order
Global Toggle: Disable "View Activity" Link
- Administrators can hide the "View Activity" link in the "member action" drop-down menu when clicking a user name
- Option located next to other integration options
- Defaults to visible
(Pro) New Contest Type: Raffle Tickets (Threshold)
- Specifies a "Target" similar to the existing contest type
- Users who pass the target will gain raffle tickets (pass it two times over for 2 tickets, etc)
- X number of winners are drawn randomly from the list of eligible winners
(Pro) Per-User Toggle: Disable Achievements
- Users can hide Achievements from their view of their own and others' posts
- De-clutters the postbit without affecting other users' view
- Defaults to visible
(Pro) Per-User Toggle: Disable Awards
- Users can hide Awards from their view of their own and others' posts
- De-clutters the postbit without affecting other users' view
- Defaults to visible
(Pro) Per-User Toggle: Disable Trophies
- Users can hide Trophies from their view of their own and others' usernames
- De-clutters the postbit without affecting other users' view
- Defaults to visible
(Pro) General / Other
- AdminCP: There's now a "Check All" box in the Contests management screen under Criteria Settings and Forum Settings
- Front-End: Contest information that would previously be populated by "N/A" will now simply be hidden when you switch contests
Bugfixes
- Fixed a few issues with recalculating points due to some bad copypasta. Always check the use-by date for your copypasta before preparing a meal.
As always, thank you for your continued support
Discuss this news here.
