Guild Launch News
RELEASE: Version 3.7 - Templates & Whole Lot More
Release Notes Version 3.7 - Alts & Mains, Templates & More
NOTE: I ran into a performance issue with the new Alt and Main calculation right after release and I have rolled the display side of the functionality back to the previous version. I will work on the solution today and overnight and roll it out again tomorrow.
Major Features
Alt & Main Functionality in Rapid Raid
Characters can now be designted as "Mains" and "Alts" in rapid raid. Characters start out as neither and if you don't want to use this functionality there is no need to make all of your characters a main. This functionality can be accessed in two places. The first is a link to the right side of the Members list on the Members tab. The second is in the left navigation of the Rapid Raid tab.
How does it work?
The alt and the main behave just as they did before in regards to imports, attendance, assigning items, etc. Where the difference is shown is on the members page,adjustments page and export page. On these pages the Main will be shown with the accumulated DKP of the main and all of their alts. A link using a plus sign "[+]" is provided to see each alt. In addition, the alts are linked at the bottom of each profile page for any character that is an alt or a main.
Things to Keep in Mind
Unlike the alt/main implementation in other systems, there is no modifications made to any other character when a modification is made to one of it's alts. This make our process completely non destructive, less error prone, and more resistant to mistakes made by the user. The calculation of the Main's DKP is purely a display calculation. Also, the "Last Raid" column on the Members page only shows the Main.
New Guild Wars Templates
We have added 3 new Guild Wars Templates. Those templates will be auto assigned randomly to new Guild Wars guilds and you can find them on the Templates Tab in admin.
New Everquest II Template
We have added 1 new Everquest II template. We have another EQII template on the way tomorrow or next week.
Enhancements
Recuiting by Class
You can now use "High" "Medium" and "Low" as the amount needed, which will be colored Green, Orange and Red respectively.
New Video Embed BBCode
We have added BBCode for embedding Video from the following sites:
Veoh.com
Break.com
CollegeHumor.com
SuperDeluxe.com
Rapid Raid Past Raids List
The Rapid Raid Past Raids list is now paged. The list shows 20 raids by default and paging is done just as it is on other places on the site. This should improve performance of this page alot especially considering most people go to that page to see raids in the last week or so.
Raid Icons for Events
Raid Icons are now displayed for events if Raid Icons are supported by your game.
Small, Medium, Large Links for Images
The links for the Small, Medium and Large version of an image have been turned into icons. The previous text only links were determined to be boring and crappy looking. The new icons look much better.
Warhammer: Disciple of Khaine Class Icon
The Disciple of Khaine class Icon is now available for Warhammer guilds.
Bug Fixes
* The library now allows longer filenames. Previously long filenames would be truncated which caused issues.
* Image uploads now accept the "jpeg" file extension as a valid image extension. Previously only "jpg" was accepted for Jpegs.
* Images can now be uploaded with special characters in their name. Such as "#" and "&", etc.
* The option to choose whether an event counts towards attendance when an event is created on the Add Event screen has been added.
* Blizzard changed the indicator for sex in their API. We've adjusted the character importer to that change so that the sex of your character imports properly.
* The custom page editor now allows the iframe FrameBorder property.
* We've fixed the issue where a message sent to your entire guild would be duplicated on the preview window.
* We've fixed an issue where the import would import an event with no attendees and the event would not show on the raid details
Performance Enhancments
* The Rapid Raid members page queries have been reworked to be more performant. This change should completely remove the database issue with occasional database crashes since this query was the prime culprit in that crash.
NOTE: I ran into a performance issue with the new Alt and Main calculation right after release and I have rolled the display side of the functionality back to the previous version. I will work on the solution today and overnight and roll it out again tomorrow.
Major Features
Alt & Main Functionality in Rapid Raid
Characters can now be designted as "Mains" and "Alts" in rapid raid. Characters start out as neither and if you don't want to use this functionality there is no need to make all of your characters a main. This functionality can be accessed in two places. The first is a link to the right side of the Members list on the Members tab. The second is in the left navigation of the Rapid Raid tab.
How does it work?
The alt and the main behave just as they did before in regards to imports, attendance, assigning items, etc. Where the difference is shown is on the members page,adjustments page and export page. On these pages the Main will be shown with the accumulated DKP of the main and all of their alts. A link using a plus sign "[+]" is provided to see each alt. In addition, the alts are linked at the bottom of each profile page for any character that is an alt or a main.
Things to Keep in Mind
Unlike the alt/main implementation in other systems, there is no modifications made to any other character when a modification is made to one of it's alts. This make our process completely non destructive, less error prone, and more resistant to mistakes made by the user. The calculation of the Main's DKP is purely a display calculation. Also, the "Last Raid" column on the Members page only shows the Main.
New Guild Wars Templates
We have added 3 new Guild Wars Templates. Those templates will be auto assigned randomly to new Guild Wars guilds and you can find them on the Templates Tab in admin.
New Everquest II Template
We have added 1 new Everquest II template. We have another EQII template on the way tomorrow or next week.
Enhancements
Recuiting by Class
You can now use "High" "Medium" and "Low" as the amount needed, which will be colored Green, Orange and Red respectively.
New Video Embed BBCode
We have added BBCode for embedding Video from the following sites:
Veoh.com
Break.com
CollegeHumor.com
SuperDeluxe.com
Rapid Raid Past Raids List
The Rapid Raid Past Raids list is now paged. The list shows 20 raids by default and paging is done just as it is on other places on the site. This should improve performance of this page alot especially considering most people go to that page to see raids in the last week or so.
Raid Icons for Events
Raid Icons are now displayed for events if Raid Icons are supported by your game.
Small, Medium, Large Links for Images
The links for the Small, Medium and Large version of an image have been turned into icons. The previous text only links were determined to be boring and crappy looking. The new icons look much better.
Warhammer: Disciple of Khaine Class Icon
The Disciple of Khaine class Icon is now available for Warhammer guilds.
Bug Fixes
* The library now allows longer filenames. Previously long filenames would be truncated which caused issues.
* Image uploads now accept the "jpeg" file extension as a valid image extension. Previously only "jpg" was accepted for Jpegs.
* Images can now be uploaded with special characters in their name. Such as "#" and "&", etc.
* The option to choose whether an event counts towards attendance when an event is created on the Add Event screen has been added.
* Blizzard changed the indicator for sex in their API. We've adjusted the character importer to that change so that the sex of your character imports properly.
* The custom page editor now allows the iframe FrameBorder property.
* We've fixed the issue where a message sent to your entire guild would be duplicated on the preview window.
* We've fixed an issue where the import would import an event with no attendees and the event would not show on the raid details
Performance Enhancments
* The Rapid Raid members page queries have been reworked to be more performant. This change should completely remove the database issue with occasional database crashes since this query was the prime culprit in that crash.
GL_Support wrote:
Would it be possible to add just a simple "Open" (green) and "Closed" (red) toggles as well?
Enhancements
Recuiting by Class
You can now use "High" "Medium" and "Low" as the amount needed, which will be colored Green, Orange and Red respectively.
Recuiting by Class
You can now use "High" "Medium" and "Low" as the amount needed, which will be colored Green, Orange and Red respectively.
Would it be possible to add just a simple "Open" (green) and "Closed" (red) toggles as well?
Mithoron wrote:
Those are already there. They were in a stealth release.
-Stephen
GL_Support wrote:
Would it be possible to add just a simple "Open" (green) and "Closed" (red) toggles as well?
Enhancements
Recuiting by Class
You can now use "High" "Medium" and "Low" as the amount needed, which will be colored Green, Orange and Red respectively.
Recuiting by Class
You can now use "High" "Medium" and "Low" as the amount needed, which will be colored Green, Orange and Red respectively.
Would it be possible to add just a simple "Open" (green) and "Closed" (red) toggles as well?
Those are already there. They were in a stealth release.
-Stephen