A New Badge System?

[StarSeeker]

One of the features lets people choose their own "favorite awards" that they want to appear in their mini-profiles (besides posts.)  Since it's easy to create new awards, and categories of awards, and give all of these things names, it should be possible (and easy) to simulate that functionality.  For instance, instead of naming an award "Monthly Meeting Place," it could be "Monthly Meeting Place <name of place> <month and year>," and the person could choose for themselves whether they'd like to keep.."wearing" it, as it were.  What do you think of that? 

[mu]

Fine with us to go ahead with the new system. 

I'm glad you approve, but it seems it doesn't do exactly what I at first thought: 

There is no way to associate links with awards, and there doesn't seem to be a way to choose specifically which should appear in mini-profiles.  You can set a global limit on the number shown there.  I think "favorites" will have priority for being shown there--but there doesn't seem to be a way to make awards not be shown there if the person has any..

By the way, the awards are links, but they link to the member's award page, and can not be set arbitrarily.

On the other hand, it does seem to be a significant improvement over our current awards mod, which also seems to no longer be maintained.  However, if we change, current awards will be lost--how much of an issue is that?

[IndigoGhost]

By the way, the awards are links, but they link to the member's award page, and can not be set arbitrarily.

On the other hand, it does seem to be a significant improvement over our current awards mod, which also seems to no longer be maintained.  However, if we change, current awards will be lost--how much of an issue is that?

Can't they be transfered by hand some way that is not too time consumeing, IE a script to do this on its own or somewhat of the sort?

[The Littlest Leaf Dragon]

I think we only have three awards at the moment that have been given out to a total of three people currently.  Migration shouldn't be too hard, right?

[mu]

Can't they be transfered by hand some way that is not too time consumeing, IE a script to do this on its own or somewhat of the sort?

Of course; we can always customize things to our needs.  The awards do have a "date awarded" field already...

I think we only have three awards at the moment that have been given out to a total of three people currently.  Migration shouldn't be too hard, right?

No, it shouldn't be difficult.  I may be doing this tonight, if everyone is cool with it...

[nu]

Hey, how's it going fellas?

I've got an award! 

[mu]

Please pardon my good friend nu up there; he was kind enough to try on a new (and possibly radioactive) award.

As you can see, nu's award is displayed in his mini-profile.  If you click on it there, you'll get a page with more information on the award, along with a list of everyone else who has received it.  In addition, in nu's profile, there is an awards item on the left under profile info; this gives all of nu's awards.

If you are an award awarder, you should have access to a new item in the admin panel, awards.  It has five tabs:

[mu]

Here is a list of the currently held awards.

(All of them are Monthly Meeting Place, so I will just indicate their metallic persuasion.)

iadr - gold
Armored Bore - silver
Alex Lou - gold
pj - platinum
DrTechnical - bronze

I'd re-award them myself, but I don't know what the new awards should be like.

[StarSeeker]

Hey, how's it going fellas?

I've got an award! 

And a big one. Can you make them smaller?

You can use the images we have used so far to re-award things.

[IndigoGhost]

That's really good nu! um.. i mean mu! I like it, the only thing that's slightly annoying is the black box around the awards as seen in the thread window, but other then that its really good 

How do i achieve the nuclear award comrade? I have to kill a nu?  

[The Littlest Leaf Dragon]

I get the following error when trying to click on nu's award.  Also, I can't see anything on the awards page in his profile.  The rest seems to work well, though.

Unable to load the 'awards_members' template.

[StarSeeker]

I get the following error when trying to click on nu's award.

Unable to load the 'awards_members' template.

I don't see any error

[IndigoGhost]

I get the following error when trying to click on nu's award.

Unable to load the 'awards_members' template.

I don't see any error

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[The Littlest Leaf Dragon]

In that case, can mu please make sure the template is in place for all themes?

[mu]

Have another go at it, StarMist-using wolve..  

Edit:  Edit never mind, not yet.  And sorry for breaking stuff for you for a minute there.