Phase II of the roll out.

Penfold · December 14, 2008, 02:00:41 PM

Now the badges have been sorted on to phase II.

1. Gandy, can we please replace the donate icon with the chosen one (I've got no idea how to do that sorry).

2. How do we link the subscriptions to the supporter badge in the award system - or can't we?

3. When a subscriptions expires, we need the badge to go (and a reminder or something to be sent I guess).

4. Can we automate it with the golden badge as well so that if someone is not a LAN Attendee or a supporter then the golden badge also goes. If this needs to be done manually it's a heck of a task to maintain.

Other things we discussed were:

a. Removing signatures and avatars for non-supporters.
b. Limiting the number of pm's for non-supporters.
c. Only letting supporters use the calendar to add things like birthdays <---- I've spotted how to do that
d. We were going to remove the text under the persons name except for the section-heads.

Is all this doable?

Thanks

PEN

smilodon · December 14, 2008, 02:19:47 PM

I'd imagine it wouldn't be that hard to keep track of who does and doesn't come to the LAN. We could keep a simple spreadsheet and check the names against those with the LAN badge.

1. everyone who went to the April 08 and March 08 LANS gets a badge now. When we get back from Spring 09 we add any new attendees who don't already have a badge and remove any attendees who came to the Spring 08 LAN but not either the Autumn 08 or Spring 09. I recon it would be 1/2 hours work after each LAN. If someone can furnish me with a list of people who came to the last two LANs I can do the first update, no problem.

I'm still concerned about the forum contributor badge. I still have no idea how to award that one.

Penfold · December 14, 2008, 04:11:12 PM

I can do the LAN one - that's not a problem. It's more the 'Subscriber' one which we thought we'd like to automate as much as possible via the donate button.

I'm not sure whether that can be linked into the award manager.

Otherwise we'll just have to do it manually like I plan to do with the LAN sheets.

The LAN attendees is fine - I create a spreadsheet for each LAN anyway to facilitate collecting fees and for competitions etc. As you say, the LAN badge will last up to one year since the last LAN attended.

I'm happy to do it.

PEN

smilodon · December 14, 2008, 06:35:16 PM

Ah cool. The it's down to Gandy's skillz to see what we can do with the subscriptions

Gandalf · December 14, 2008, 06:56:22 PM

ahh yeah, need to look at that. will check it out tomorrow

Penfold · December 14, 2008, 10:15:13 PM

Thanks Gandy.

What are we going to do with the Bravo and Charlie channels on the forums guys?

PEN

OldBloke · December 14, 2008, 10:22:53 PM

Quote from: Penfold;254846Thanks Gandy.

What are we going to do with the Bravo and Charlie channels on the forums guys?

PEN

I'll sort that.

Gandalf · December 15, 2008, 08:50:51 AM

button added

Armitage · December 15, 2008, 09:02:54 AM

I don't want to diss the new donate button., but can we get the background blues to match:doh:

Gandalf · December 15, 2008, 09:16:33 AM

Quote from: Armitage;254876I don't want to diss the new donate button., but can we get the background blues to match:doh:

looks fine here in FF and IE. I believe it's a transparent PNG so there shouldn't be a background.

Armitage · December 15, 2008, 09:19:39 AM

not working on IE6

Gandalf · December 15, 2008, 09:23:59 AM

Quote from: Armitage;254880not working on IE6

ahh yeah. IE 5.5 and IE6 has a bug that makes PNGs break. Damn M$.

There is a little JS fix that I have on some other sites for this, let me see if that fixes it for you.

Gandalf · December 15, 2008, 09:30:47 AM

ok, my fix won't work as it's meant for static sites not dynamic like this one. Will search for others when I get time, or you could swap/upgrade browsers (unless it's a work PC locked to IE6)

Penfold · December 16, 2008, 04:24:49 PM

Looks nice though!

PEN

Gandalf · December 16, 2008, 04:45:20 PM

Quote from: Penfold;254781Now the badges have been sorted on to phase II.

2. How do we link the subscriptions to the supporter badge in the award system - or can't we?

3. When a subscriptions expires, we need the badge to go (and a reminder or something to be sent I guess).

4. Can we automate it with the golden badge as well so that if someone is not a LAN Attendee or a supporter then the golden badge also goes. If this needs to be done manually it's a heck of a task to maintain.

Is all this doable?

Thanks

PEN

Right for these three items it will need to be a manual thing initially as there is no way of linking them with the software.

However I have checked out the database structure and it should be a fairly simple procedure to code a custom script that runs as a scheduled task and checks for any new subs and if exists awards the relevant award. Also, if the sub exists but has expired then it'll remove the award. I can also get the script to email the user about the expired membership too.

I'll start looking at coding this, but can't promise it'll be ready for the 1st so it'll need to be manual initially. Shouldn't be a problem as it's all logged anyway.

Just need to get a sub setup