points system
By pietro on Thursday, 19 June 2014
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Dear all,
we are an italian web-developing team, and we would like to integrate easysocial in a website we are developing .
To be able to do so we need to find a way to manage a complex point system.
In particular we need to be able to assign points in different point scales, while as far as we can see it seems like your point system has a lot of configurability on the assignment rules side, but it considers only a single points scale (ie all the points are accumulated in just one unique total).
If it's not possible to have different point scales using the points extension, could a similar result be achieved through the badge system?
Hello Pietro,

Thank you for your interest in EasySocial. To be honest with you, I am not really sure what you mean by "point scales". Would you mind elaborating more on this please? If you view a person's points history, these points are actually broken down into how they actually achieved their points. Is this what you are referring to?

For example, take a look at the point history here, http://demo.stackideas.com/easysocial/points/points/history/ashley-khoo
Mark
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Thursday, 19 June 2014 00:27
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Dear Mark,
what we are looking for is a system in which we could assign points to different totals.
For example:
actions A gives the user 5 points , these points should add to a total called N
actions B , C and D give the user 5 points that shoudl be added to a different total called X
... and so on

We need to achieve a system in which a user has 4 or 5 or more different categories in which he is able to receive points ( that actually would be feedback from other users) . These categories should have different totals so that a user can have for example 1000 points in total A but just 200 in total B etc...
pietro
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Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:01
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Ah I see. Unfortunately that wouldn't be possible currently I don't think you could achieve this with achievements either. However, I do think it's possible if you hack the system to be able to perform this but it's definitely going to take you about 5 - 10 hours though.

You should:

1. Add a new column for the points history table so that it now has another column called group

2. The existing method of inserting points should also be dependable on the group.
Mark
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Thursday, 19 June 2014 01:05
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Dear mark,
every time we need to add a column we have to do the work from the start?
The problem is that we have a lot of points columns to create , and the number of columns would grow over time .
We also need a fast system to create point assignments from the control panel to the variuous columns , i do not know if adding a column it will be manageable from the points entry in the control panel .
pietro
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Monday, 23 June 2014 18:22
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Hello Pietro,

The column is purely used for grouping your points only Assuming that each point rules are assigned into only 1 group at any 1 point of time.
Mark
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Monday, 23 June 2014 23:22
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