The Old Man

Thanks @Marcher Technologies, have a donut!

To be honest, its not like we haven't been patient! We've been waiting and asking for a variety of new Pages templates since v2! Why couldn't one of the IPS designers been tasked to create and release a few packs of free templates in the Marketplace, instead of us hoping for more to appear in a next major release? Agreed category view is terrible, I hate lists of records unless I need an actual list of records like in a table. Am I correct in thinking you can only have article style layout on one database at a time still?

Hi, Is there anyway to quickly rebuild the videos or at least the thumbnails for the videos, please? I saw a Rebuild button under Media Sites but it didn't work. Reason why is that I managed to lose all thumbnails trying to configure Cloudfront on AWS S3, the videos are there just lots of empty images. After switching back to local storage the images disappeared although the img src links to them are correct in the view source html. If I click on edit video then save, it generates the missing image, but I have a lot of them! Many thanks

Awesome, thank you!

Hi, Okay thanks. I've been able to confirm the bug, I've just created a dummy test account with members permisssions to test with, and like guests, it can view all the trophies in any members profile, despite only the Admin group having access to the Trophy modules.

Also I've been setting up some Font Awesome trophies etc but didn't want to reveal them to my community yet so I've only allowed Admin group to access Trophies for now in the ACP Applications Settings. However, I've just realised that the awards are visible to guests who can see them in member profiles, so I'm assuming they're visible to members too; aargh! Some of my members appearing to have been award awards for say posting 25 topic, even though they are new members or haven't posted. What's the best option, should I delete all the awards and start again, or wait until the rebuild tool is available to correct any unintentional awards whilst I was creating and editing them. Many thanks!

Great, thank you!

Not had these issues myself yet. A rebuild tool to quickly remove all automatic awards from all members or selected groups and reallocate again would be really handy, especially if you've changed the rules or for peace of mind if unsure whether some members got awards unintentionally whilst you were in the process of creating them.

Enjoying this app immensely! Having options to issue awrds based on: Profile goal completions (already suggested) Calendar Videos System (posted x number of videos) Chatbox (most messages, x number of messages etc) Time related (e.g. a Night Owl badge awarded for posting after midnight?) and days of week (award for being most active on a Sunday), posts contains specific keywords (so admins could configure that mentioning the word snow 3 times gets members say a snowman themed award, creating 5 topics mentioning The Walking Dead gets you a zombie image award) etc) having no warnings gets you an award Birthdays so system will award a cake or party themed badge If you want to refer to replies, is that the posts option? Say to award a member for posting 5 replies? Topics are obvious, but the difference between content and posts is a tad confusing. Presumably one refers to comments, reviews etc and the other is forum posts and replies only? Would be good to have an option to display the total number of an award, trophy etc issued. Eg, Awarded 186 times. Perhaps a Showcase cabinet option would be great addition. Where (similar to Leaderboard) you could display the most won trophies, medals, newest trophies and awards, all of the available trophies, badges and awards on a page, perhaps with an option to exclude some so you still retain some mystery or surprise. So for each award, a toggle setting such as Include in Showcase? The Showcase could then say something near the bottom of the list like plus 18 mystery awards to discover, Is there a way to use the styling options for Font Awesome like being able to specify a colour, use stackable icons, adding a count or text to create an award etc? https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/svg-with-js#layering Many thanks.

Fosters! Would be great if we could add criteria for number of replies, day of week most active posted, time period most active posting etc. thank you!

Hey, there's actually an informative book about this malarkey! https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zZcpuMRpAB8C&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=forum+trophy+awards+badges&source=bl&ots=UuL912r89h&sig=enFZ2DspFGbEztwQ2jylRA6105g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8k8iQ9MPYAhUoJcAKHfWYC80Q6AEIXTAN#v=onepage&q=forum trophy awards badges&f=true I like the idea of a Night Owl posting time of day related badge, and a few others I quickly saw in the preview. Also for more inspiration... https://badgeville.com/ https://badgeos.org/add-ons/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/badgeos/ Try clicking on the badges! :- https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/badges/userbadgespage/user-id/178540/page/1 https://community.lithium.com/t5/Strategy/Badges-amp-Gamification/td-p/209822

Hi, I hadn't noticed this until you mentioned it, but yes usernav icons are smaller! Still usable though.

Hi Brad, I just took a look and the image doesn't appear for me either. I validated your page to view the source since I'm using an iPad at the mo, apparently the image is at: http://www.thebullspen.com/bradimages/wallpapers/downloads/trophies/cup_for_1-5years.png.dc23b80632ba26fd2e8bb920cde82ae3.png However if you open that link in a browser, there is no image there. It's appearing as a broken image because there is no alt text for the image. If there is actually an image in that location, perhaps check your CHMOD file and folder permissions on it. Hope This helps. The developer may be able to add a title attribute for the image based on its supplied description or perhaps it's name. Sure, no problem. It's quite interesting bed-time reading!

Looking forward to IPS4 supporting this as FA 5 is now out. FA have provided a shim until we upgrade to FA 5 properly but I know FA4 is built into the IPS package, so I'm not sure if its applicable*. I see you can download v5.0.2 so perhaps its not too much work for IPS to support soon. https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/upgrading-from-4 https://fontawesome.com/get-started/svg-with-js# Beyond the basic free FA5 icons, FA 5 Pro customers have access to the larger collection of Pro only icons and will have access to the forthcoming FA5 Pro CDN. It would be great to have simple built-in options perhaps in the IPS theme settings or perhaps in the Community Enhancements section of AdminCP in order to integrate and access the Pro only icons and the CDN/API key details. I can already see many icons in the Pro range that will make potential good icons for the Trophy and Awards add-on. Updated: *I just copy and pasted the two lines of the shim code mentioned above into the header section of IPS (globalTemplate) and the new FA5 free icons start displaying. <!-- FA Version 4 Shim (SVG with JavaScript only) --> <script defer src="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.0/js/all.js"></script> <script defer src="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.0/js/v4-shims.js"></script> I tried it with the code for the Light Pro only lighter version of the FA 5 snowflake icon, and it displays the Regular version rather than nothing at all, so very handy until FA 5 Pro integration is possible and supported, when presumably the Light Pro icon would appear instead of the Regular.

Absolutely, I totally understand that, a dark gaming themed site for example wouldn't have any use for bright, cute designs. The app itself seems brilliant to me, for many community sites its a must have just like an emoticon manager is. I was able to add an award named Icebreaker (for posting a first piece of content) with a crisp Font Icon snowflake as a test in minutes. I just need to make an effort to populate it! I like the ability to explain in a fun way what the trophy means. I also like the the page in member's profiles that acts as a showcase. A few basic trophy designs would be great just to get admins up and running until they need to expand on a more specific style and theme for their site, but definitely an import/export feature would be the icing on the cake!

Hi, I bought this app recently as I couldn't wait any longer for IPS to announce the addition of this type of functionality and ideally needed something to help give a boost to my sole remaining active forum community. I realised as soon as I installed it that it doesn't actually come with any to get you started, not that it claims to. It's a great offering though possibly a framework or toolkit ready to go. It doesn't come with any 'out of the box' image content or some of those cool, fun sounding and motivational award descriptions like you see on Lithium or in the Fitbit app for example (with those colourful badges - see below!). However in fairness whilst this is a bit disappointing at first, it is ready and geared up from the outset to accept your own trophies, medals or badges, or you can use Font Awesome icons with it. I'm hoping Font Awesome 5 or the promised bonus icons that come with FA5 Pro will bring more variety of icons for use as trophies, badges and awards, but I've not had the time yet to trawl or make my own. Sadly I haven't seen anything in the Marketplace either yet. So allthough I've found some online videos showing you how to make nice community awards with Adobe Illustrator (which I don't have and I'm not an artist or graphic designer!), it's purely my own fault, I haven't got it up and running yet and not the fault of what looks like a great mod. I know a talented theme artist like Sherri @IBTheme would be able to create some amazing hand drawn awards and badges, wouldn't it be great if she teamed up with Fosters to add some ready to go awards and trophies, or custom award and badge packs. Soley for possible inspiration... Example of some of the Lithium style built-in awards... Lithium albeit a different type of CMS platform posted some interesting blog articles way back in 2014 about the theory of gamification, hopefully I'm okay to post some links if anyone's interested in learning more about the science and thinking in terms of community engagement using awards and trophies... https://community.lithium.com/t5/Science-of-Social-Blog/Intrinsic-vs-Extrinsic-Rewards-and-Their-Differences-from/ba-p/128969 https://www.lithium.com/products/online-communities/gamification https://community.lithium.com/t5/Lithium-s-View-Blog/Announcing-Lithium-Premium-Gamification-with-Lithium-Badges/ba-p/130569 https://community.lithium.com/t5/Lithium-s-View-Blog/Badges-Beta-Live-on-Lithosphere/ba-p/127917 But I digress... Some much nicer looking Fitbit style badges, for further inspiration... Full list... https://blog.fitbit.com/fitbit-badges/

Mike, just a quick thank you for all your continued hard work, dedication and great customer service. You seemed to get 4.2 compatibility updates out for Videos System really quickly, meaning we could upgrade to 4.2 much quicker than expected and without an agonising wait. One of the elite third party devs here, supporting the community.

Hi, Try these... http://oembed.com/#section7 http://embed.ly/providers

Thank you @Mike John, much appreciated. I just downloaded it from Devfuse and installed it, the rich text is working great now.

Hi Mike, I know what you mean, but not really. Using the rules section is more of a workaround to getting a more visible, larger image or one that is a better size when it appears next to the video title. The existing image field doesn't let you resize either and when it displays it is too small. (Not sure if you posted the right screenshot there, seems to be from your auto welcome app.)

That sounds great, thanks Joey. I was thinking afterwards for some sites, would it also benefit from some kind of option like an automated task to automatically remove imported videos after a certain selectable time limit, in order to avoid your site becoming a permanent archive or filling up? I used to do that manually, delete old topics every so often when I used to import the latest movie trailers from the iTunes RSS feed as topics.

Hi Mike, Another suggestion or bit of feedback for you! I didn't realise until now that you can upload an image in the Video category settings, which is great. On my site I've found that it's very small when it appears next the name of the category, smaller than the actual height/text size of the category title itself which looks a bit odd, and the image is too small to sometimes make out clearly depending upon the image chosen. The rules text box allows you to choose files via 'Click to choose files' like the normal post editor does, so I've used that to also upload a larger image to enhance the page, since the category description box itself is plain text and doesn't have the 'Click to choose files' attachment option. If you could attach an image to the description instead it would probably be better, and allow a bit more control over the size of the image for neatness, though I'm unsure if it would cause any problems if the category description is displayed anywhere else in Videos System. Perhaps the existing image option could be better implemented with a larger size and say below the category title or to the left of the category description? Many thanks.

It would be great if you could import a feed of video content into Videos, so for example you could import the latest film and movie trailers from Apple via their RSS feed or perhaps from a YouTube, Twitch or Vimeo channel feed.

Superb, thanks Mike!

Hi Mike, I have a navigation suggestion for Videos System. When you view a video a the category containing multiple videos, is it possible you could add links to the next or previous video in the category? Kind of like what you see when looking at the bottom of a forum topic here, in that it has a handy topic title and link to the previous or next topic, or when you are looking at the first or last offers to take you back to the forum listing. Many thanks.