Guild Launch News
Version 6.8 - Sep. 23rd - Sneak Peak
Version 6.8 - Sneak Peak
Version 6.8 is planned for release on September 23rd 2009. Version 6.8 is a major update that contains a ton of user requested features. There is even more to come in the actual release. A sneak peak of the features/changes that I can confirm follows.
"Post is Answered" Functionality
When creating a forum you now have the option to enable "post is answered" functionality. The purpose of this functionality is to provide a way for Admins, Moderators and Topic Creators to indicate that a specific post in reply to the topic answered the topic.
You probably won't enable this in all forums, but if you have any "Help" forums then this is very useful. When a post is marked as answering the topic the first post and the answers get a special header that let you quickly click straight to the answer.
More Forum Style Options
The user info (registered date, posts, username, etc.) can now be moved to the right or the left depending on the Admin's preference.
Traditional SubForum Support
Traditional subforum support has been added to the forums. You now have the option of not just making the forum a subforum but to also link it with a specific forum. If you do this then when you click on the "Parent" forum you will see all subforums. Subforums are also shown below the forums on the Index.
Auto Raid Eligibility Settings
Previous to this release every character added to the guild site was marked as raid eligible. This functionality can now be turned off. If it is on, then you can now select a minimum level to mark as raid eligible. This will allow you to have a guild site where only Max Level characters are set as raid eligible when added to the guild site's roster.
More Rapid Raid Signup Options
Admins now have the option of signing up an Entire raid roster Group or Role for a Raid. So, now you can do even more creative things with this functionality.
Guild Award Functionality
Guild Awards are now available. You can add a name, a description, and a point value. As well you can choose an image from your file library.
When an award is given to a user the Award will show on their user profile. The user can choose to 'Equip' one of the awards. When the award is equipped that award will show in the forums. Users can be awarded multiple awards from multiple guilds but can only equip one at a time.
There is always a "Recent Awards" widget showing people who have recently won an award.
This functionality is optional and must be enabled on the "Extended Configuration" page on the Content tab in Admin. When it is enabled a new tab will appear on the Guild Roster.
PM Upgrades
Users can now PM guild members based on rank and permission group. In addition, you can create your own custom groups of Guild members.
Gallery Upgrades
You can now select an image in the gallery to show as the "Cover" of the gallery. If you don't select one then the most recent image is used as it was previously.
Gallery comments are now shown at the Main level and at each Gallery. This should provide more fun for this area since you can see all image discussions in one go instead of having to click into each image.
Guild Twitter Functionality
The Guild site can now have a Twitter account associated with it.
This account is currently used for a Twitter Widget where Guild Admins and those with "Communications" admin rights can post to the guild's Twitter account.
In addition there is now a Twitter option on every news post which will allow users with Communications admin permissions to post the news and the URL to the guild's Twitter account.
Much more is planned for this functionality such as raid start announcements i.e. "Trial of the Grand Crusader starts in 30 minutes!". We welcome your feedback on what you want to see in this area!
Aion Funcitonality
The [aionspell] tag is now available to link spells in your forum posts. It works in the same manner as the [aionitem] tag.
We've added an Aion server status widget which displays the status of all Aion servers.
Aion class icons have been updated to more current colored one.
Lotro Functionality
[lotroitemico] is now a supported BBtag. This will render just the item icon.
Game Currencies in the Guild Bank
Currencies have been updated to display properly on the Guild Bank for all games that we could find verifiable currency info. If your game shows a generic "money" currency then you can email us the correct currency info at support@guildlaunch.com and we can add it in a future release.
Other Changes
* The View Recent Post page now shows only unread post
* Users can now choose how negative percentage adjustments are handled. The current method is to do nothing. You can now select "decay towards 0". This was added as an option based on user request.
* Trial of the Crusader and "Trial of the Grand Crusader" will now make the Crusader's Coliseum icon show on the calendar.
* The Volume of the Homepage Music is now configurable.
* The last edited text in the forums now has a div around it that you can use to color it. The div's class is "last_edited".
* The news posts and Last Forum Posts display has been changed to show "moments ago" when the post is within the last 5 seconds. This removes the odd "-1" second issues introduced by subsecond variations in server times.
* The Upcoming and Past raid lists now have an "Add Raid" link at the bottom.
* The Calendar day detail page now has options for deleting, importing into, and editing raids.
Bug Fixes
* A bug with Read/Unread flags showing improperly has been fixed.
* A shoutbox issue with the Shaiya2 template has been fixed
* An issue causing the Raid Signup Groups to misreport the signup totals has been fixed.
* The Who's Online widget is now renamable.
* The back to top link in the forums now works again in Firefox
* Fixed an uncommon issue with caching and primary navigation
* PvP team permissions have been fixed
* An issue causing the read/unread flag to show inmproperly for forms with shadow topics has been fixed
* An issue causing the wrong date to show as the last raid for Alts has been resolved.
Version 6.8 is planned for release on September 23rd 2009. Version 6.8 is a major update that contains a ton of user requested features. There is even more to come in the actual release. A sneak peak of the features/changes that I can confirm follows.
"Post is Answered" Functionality
When creating a forum you now have the option to enable "post is answered" functionality. The purpose of this functionality is to provide a way for Admins, Moderators and Topic Creators to indicate that a specific post in reply to the topic answered the topic.
You probably won't enable this in all forums, but if you have any "Help" forums then this is very useful. When a post is marked as answering the topic the first post and the answers get a special header that let you quickly click straight to the answer.
More Forum Style Options
The user info (registered date, posts, username, etc.) can now be moved to the right or the left depending on the Admin's preference.
Traditional SubForum Support
Traditional subforum support has been added to the forums. You now have the option of not just making the forum a subforum but to also link it with a specific forum. If you do this then when you click on the "Parent" forum you will see all subforums. Subforums are also shown below the forums on the Index.
Auto Raid Eligibility Settings
Previous to this release every character added to the guild site was marked as raid eligible. This functionality can now be turned off. If it is on, then you can now select a minimum level to mark as raid eligible. This will allow you to have a guild site where only Max Level characters are set as raid eligible when added to the guild site's roster.
More Rapid Raid Signup Options
Admins now have the option of signing up an Entire raid roster Group or Role for a Raid. So, now you can do even more creative things with this functionality.
Guild Award Functionality
Guild Awards are now available. You can add a name, a description, and a point value. As well you can choose an image from your file library.
When an award is given to a user the Award will show on their user profile. The user can choose to 'Equip' one of the awards. When the award is equipped that award will show in the forums. Users can be awarded multiple awards from multiple guilds but can only equip one at a time.
There is always a "Recent Awards" widget showing people who have recently won an award.
This functionality is optional and must be enabled on the "Extended Configuration" page on the Content tab in Admin. When it is enabled a new tab will appear on the Guild Roster.
PM Upgrades
Users can now PM guild members based on rank and permission group. In addition, you can create your own custom groups of Guild members.
Gallery Upgrades
You can now select an image in the gallery to show as the "Cover" of the gallery. If you don't select one then the most recent image is used as it was previously.
Gallery comments are now shown at the Main level and at each Gallery. This should provide more fun for this area since you can see all image discussions in one go instead of having to click into each image.
Guild Twitter Functionality
The Guild site can now have a Twitter account associated with it.
This account is currently used for a Twitter Widget where Guild Admins and those with "Communications" admin rights can post to the guild's Twitter account.
In addition there is now a Twitter option on every news post which will allow users with Communications admin permissions to post the news and the URL to the guild's Twitter account.
Much more is planned for this functionality such as raid start announcements i.e. "Trial of the Grand Crusader starts in 30 minutes!". We welcome your feedback on what you want to see in this area!
Aion Funcitonality
The [aionspell] tag is now available to link spells in your forum posts. It works in the same manner as the [aionitem] tag.
We've added an Aion server status widget which displays the status of all Aion servers.
Aion class icons have been updated to more current colored one.
Lotro Functionality
[lotroitemico] is now a supported BBtag. This will render just the item icon.
Game Currencies in the Guild Bank
Currencies have been updated to display properly on the Guild Bank for all games that we could find verifiable currency info. If your game shows a generic "money" currency then you can email us the correct currency info at support@guildlaunch.com and we can add it in a future release.
Other Changes
* The View Recent Post page now shows only unread post
* Users can now choose how negative percentage adjustments are handled. The current method is to do nothing. You can now select "decay towards 0". This was added as an option based on user request.
* Trial of the Crusader and "Trial of the Grand Crusader" will now make the Crusader's Coliseum icon show on the calendar.
* The Volume of the Homepage Music is now configurable.
* The last edited text in the forums now has a div around it that you can use to color it. The div's class is "last_edited".
* The news posts and Last Forum Posts display has been changed to show "moments ago" when the post is within the last 5 seconds. This removes the odd "-1" second issues introduced by subsecond variations in server times.
* The Upcoming and Past raid lists now have an "Add Raid" link at the bottom.
* The Calendar day detail page now has options for deleting, importing into, and editing raids.
Bug Fixes
* A bug with Read/Unread flags showing improperly has been fixed.
* A shoutbox issue with the Shaiya2 template has been fixed
* An issue causing the Raid Signup Groups to misreport the signup totals has been fixed.
* The Who's Online widget is now renamable.
* The back to top link in the forums now works again in Firefox
* Fixed an uncommon issue with caching and primary navigation
* PvP team permissions have been fixed
* An issue causing the read/unread flag to show inmproperly for forms with shadow topics has been fixed
* An issue causing the wrong date to show as the last raid for Alts has been resolved.
Last edited by GL_Support on Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:42 pm; edited 1 time in total
Mithoron wrote:
Essentially, the current SubForums are still considered subforums. we scrapped the idea of creating two concepts. Instead, they are all subforums. One is a subforum with no parent forum (a subforum of the category) the other (traditional subforum) has a forum set as it's parent.
So, if you have existing subforums you just edit them and assign a parent and they turn into a traditional subforum. you only need to create the parent.
-Stephen
Awesome!
With the new subforum option will we be able to nest existing subforums under forums now or will we have to create a new subforum nested and move all the messages to that new nested subforum?
With the new subforum option will we be able to nest existing subforums under forums now or will we have to create a new subforum nested and move all the messages to that new nested subforum?
Essentially, the current SubForums are still considered subforums. we scrapped the idea of creating two concepts. Instead, they are all subforums. One is a subforum with no parent forum (a subforum of the category) the other (traditional subforum) has a forum set as it's parent.
So, if you have existing subforums you just edit them and assign a parent and they turn into a traditional subforum. you only need to create the parent.
-Stephen
Thanks for the update. I was just wondering if this is a usual problem. We have the problem at our guild that when replying to a forum topic it sometimes does not post your reply. Or ask you to log in over and over again. Or tels you that now post topic was selected. If you can maybe tell me if there is a reason for this I dont want my Guild members to stop using the forums because of this.
Maybe it was sorted out with this version. Thanks for the awesome site.
Maybe it was sorted out with this version. Thanks for the awesome site.
The ZeoZordon wrote:
This is almost always cookie related on the *users* end of things. It can also be caused by using domain forwarders. Also, please post a new topic for this sort of thing.
-Stephen
Thanks for the update. I was just wondering if this is a usual problem. We have the problem at our guild that when replying to a forum topic it sometimes does not post your reply. Or ask you to log in over and over again. Or tels you that now post topic was selected. If you can maybe tell me if there is a reason for this I dont want my Guild members to stop using the forums because of this.
Maybe it was sorted out with this version. Thanks for the awesome site.
Maybe it was sorted out with this version. Thanks for the awesome site.
This is almost always cookie related on the *users* end of things. It can also be caused by using domain forwarders. Also, please post a new topic for this sort of thing.
-Stephen
Something odd has happened with regard to the spacing of the posts. It seems now all the text is butted right up to the avatar. I've also noticed on our forums at least that there is not much of a gap at all between the persons last post and the next, i.e. the bottom of their signature, and the topic of the next repy.
In general it just seems like everything looks much more bunched up and it's a tad confusing at times, yet I don't remember it being quite like this prior to the yesterday's update. Perhaps I'm just imagining things?
Oak.
P.S. Just wanted to say thanks for the awesome job you've done with all this, it's been a pleasure to work with and has made the running of the guild much easier.
In general it just seems like everything looks much more bunched up and it's a tad confusing at times, yet I don't remember it being quite like this prior to the yesterday's update. Perhaps I'm just imagining things?
Oak.
P.S. Just wanted to say thanks for the awesome job you've done with all this, it's been a pleasure to work with and has made the running of the guild much easier.