Rostermaster Stand Alone v4.5.0 is now available! Just like its younger sibbling, the two main novelties are the addition of custom fields, and integration with DKP management applications. This release also integrates a couple of fixes, including some important ones: newer characters might fail being added to the roster as their character ID had grown too large to fit in the database, and all EQ2Players pages being moved to everquest2.com (preventing RMSA from updating). Therefore this update can be considered as mandatory if you want RMSA to work properly. Click on "Read more" for the details.
Changes in 4.5.0 (24-June-2010)
There's been some changes to the database schema. Make sure you use the appropriate Upgrade option in the configuration module, and then re-save your configuration.
Also, as people have expressed interest in it in the past, I have setup a Paypal "Donate" link on my website. RMSA remains entirely free for personal use, but if you want to give back something in return, it is now possible.
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NEW: Custom fields. You can have up to 5 custom fields to hold user-entered data (edit access can also be restricted to the administrator on a per-field basis). Custom fields can contain text, images or clickable links (the last two are restricted to administrators only).
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NEW: Integration with external DKP management tools to display DKP values on your roster. Currently supported: eqdkp and eqdkpplus. Use the 'dkp' field to insert into your roster.
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NEW: Up to three roster pages can now be defined, each with its own fields template. It allows for example to have one page set with all the stats, and a second page set to display custom fields you have defined.
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NEW: Added functions to the configuration interface to delete the activity log or the user claims.
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NEW: EQDKP-Plus authentication support (when used as a Portal)
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IMPROVED: Sort dropdown menus will now offer all columns instead of only those currently displayed.
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IMPROVED: Destructive database operations in the configuration interface will now request for confirmation.
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IMPROVED: Improved log readability (highlited old/new data, sorted entries)
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IMPROVED: Removed "Force Update" from the roster menu. You can still force a roster update from the Configuration interface.
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IMPROVED: Code cleanup to help maintaining variants.
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IMPROVED: Can now use Grouped display sorted by username.
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FIXED: Some characters weren't properly added to the database (newer characterID values would no longer fit in an INTEGER database field)
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FIXED: Updated URLs for EQ2Players (SOE is replacing eq2players.com with everquest2.com)
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FIXED: Flatfile support was broken on the Win32 platform.
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FIXED: Potential warning when claiming a character.
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FIXED: Warning if using flatfile storage with an empty roster.
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Update after server merge
Hiho,
After Servermeges have happened on the german servers there seems to be a problem updating the required data from the eq2players site. On my RM edition I get the error meessage that too many parse errors have been encountered and that therfore he databese is not updated. Are there any known things how to solve that issue or any plans for an update of the tool so that it works again. )I have allready changed the Guild ID to the new guild ID on the new Server.
BR
Thorsten
Is there any hope for us EQ2 Extended players
I know that the majority of EQ2 live players despise us but a huge disadvantage of playing on EQ2X is that EQ2players does not carry feeds for our server in either character or Guild cateragories. I am hoping there is some way to get a version of this that will allow me to create my own xml feed for it to read so that I can manually (I know it will take a lot of time) update my guilds and characters info (or give them an option to do so).
Is there anyway to create a version of this that is not reliant on the EQ2players feeds? But rather manual user input?
Already kinda possible
I haven't tried this in the recent versions, but in theory you should be able to edit urls.php, and point to either local files, or to a different server. For example, try changing:
$config['url']['rostercsv'] = "http://everquest2.com/guilds/guild_roster_csv.vm?guildId={$config['guild_id']}";To point to:
Do the same for rosterxml and rostercsv.
While working on LOTRoster I was using locally stored XML files for testing, so this should also work with RMSA.
If you need help, contact me through the Rostermaster thread on the EQ2 forum.
Additional feature
Do you see any way to integrate Quest Master like in RM4DF also in the Standallone Version. Iw ould really like to use this feature but I don't like to use Dragonfly CMS as it does not fit to the requirements of our guild. I had allready a look in the source code of the tool, but it has quite some Dragonfly specific code in it. MAybe you are allready planning on such a port so I ask the question here befor I try programming it on my own (which will be a mess, as there is quite some DF specific code within this module in the original source code.
BR
Thorsten
Doable, but I won't do it
It's doable, but I have no intention of doing it. The first reason is I believe such a thing should be done as a separate tool rather than integrated into RosterMaster itself. And the second reason is it is a chore to update whenever a new expansion comes out. If someone wants to do it and needs help in interracing with the Rostermaster roster database, I'll be happy to answer their questions.