vBActivity v3.1.0 Beta 1 Released!

[Fillip H.]

Hey all,

Tonight, we're proud to release vBActivity & Awards v3.1.0 Beta 1 for vBulletin 4.x and vBulletin 3.8.x, available immediately to Pro customers. This release is 100% made up of the most popular features requested by you, our customers.

Activity Contests get a major upgrade this version, with three new major features!

You can now create Recurring Contests, which will automatically create an identical contest with the same time frame at a specified interval. Celebrating the birthday of your forum with a special contest is easier than ever, as you can make the contest automatically recur every year.
Additionally, you can now recalculate winners for contests that in the past found no winners (or newly created contests with start & end dates in the past).

You can also specify a separate amount of users to display in the "Current Standing" - for instance, you can display the top 10 users in line to win a contest with only 5 winners. This can greatly help incentivise people who may be closer to the top than they realise to push ahead for the win!

Lastly, via new usergroup permissions you can now specify usergroups that can create & edit contests via the front-end! If you've ever wanted to give someone a "Contest Master" title but didn't want them as a moderator of your forum, now you can!

Speaking of usergroup permissions, you can now set fine-grained permissions for what your moderators can do in the ModCP for this mod. Each individual page in the ModCP now has its own permission. As per your request, the ability to grant a new Award to users is separate from the ability to add/edit/delete an award.

We've also added a few new Points Types; Points for Attachments, and Points for [DBTech] DragonByte Gallery Uploads!

Speaking of Points Types, the ability to create Criteria that only apply to a specific forum has been added, allowing untold new combinations of Achievements and Promotions. Have a public forum for user-posted news? You can now add a new achievement "Journalist" for threads posted in this forum!

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 1

Fine-Grained ModCP Permissions

• Separate usergroup permission required for each page
• Separates add/edit/delete and ability to hand out awards
• Complete List:
  • Can Manage Achievements
  • Can Manage Categories
  • Can Manage Criteria
  • Can Manage Awards
  • Can Grant Awards
  • Can Manage Maintenance Options
  • Can Manage Trophies
  • Can Manage Contests
  • Can Manage Promotions
  • Can Manage Backups
  • Can Manage System Snapshots
  • Can Import / Export
  • Can Manage Points Settings
  • Can Manage Global Permissions
  • Can Manage vBulletin Options

Points for Attachments

• Ability to grant points for attachment uploads
• Works when attachments are stored in the File System, not in the database
• Allows re-calculation for past attachments uploaded

Points for [DBTech] DragonByte Gallery Uploads

• Ability to grant points for DragonByte Gallery uploads
• Works when attachments are stored in the File System, not in the database
• Allows re-calculation for past images uploaded

Per-Forum Criteria

• Ability to set certain Criteria as only applying to certain forums
• Works with the following Criteria types:
  • Posts
  • Posts (Own Threads)
  • Threads
  • Thread Ratings Given
  • Thread Ratings Received
  • Polls Posted
  • Poll Votes
  • Reputation Given
  • Reputation Received
  • Infractions Given
  • Infractions Received
  • [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging: Mentions Given
  • [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging: Mentions Received
  • [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging: Tags Given
  • [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging: Tags Received

Duplicate Achievements

• Ability to copy Achievements when creating a new Achievement
• Copies all settings including Criteria chosen

Points Alongside Awards

• Users can be given points alongside Awards
• Works with "Recalculate Points" maintenance action

PM User At X Posts

• Ability to define different thresholds to PM a user
• Translatable PM title / text

PM User When Receiving Awards

• Sends a PM to users when they receive a new Award
• Translatable PM title / text
• Global toggle via vBulletin Options

PM User When Receiving Achievements

• Sends a PM to users when they receive a new Achievement
• Translatable PM title / text
• Global toggle via vBulletin Options
• Doesn't trigger on recalculate, to avoid spam

(Pro) Recurring Contests

• Can be set to recur
  • Never
  • Daily
  • Weekly
  • Monthly
  • Yearly
• Preserves your "Hour" and "Minute" configurations for the new contest

(Pro) Recalculate Winners

• Contests that ended without any winners can be re-calculated
• Best used after recalculating points
• Reads from the Points Log to determine who wins each contest type

(Pro) "Current Standing" Display

• Display more or less users than there are scheduled winners for each contest
• Doesn't decrease when one or more winners are added to an in-progress contest
• Works with contests currently in progress

(Pro) Front-End Contest Management

• Separate usergroup permission required
• Allows add/edit of contests
• Prevents deletion for security purposes
• Full contest management interface nearly identical to the AdminCP

(Pro) PM User When Receiving Awards

• Per-User toggle via UserCP

(Pro) PM User When Receiving Achievements

• Per-User toggle via UserCP

(Pro) PM User When Receiving Promotions

• Sends a PM to users when they receive a new Promotion
• Translatable PM title / text
• Per-User toggle via UserCP

General / Other

• Points for Posts is now more compatible with 3rd party modifications that generate posts
• Who's Online support
• (vB4) The profile block has been updated to support profile customisation

As always, thank you for your continued support

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