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RaidPlanner (RP in short) is a Joomla Component.
If you are using Joomla 1.7 you can try this version. It’s currently in development, so there can be bugs, and nonworking features!
This component helps to organize raids and has the following main features:
- Level and Rank based signup
- Different access groups can be defined
- Roles can be selected during signup
- Can be signup as Attending, Not attending or Late
- Officers/adminitrators can confirm signups, with the following statuses: Confirmed, Sitting, Waiting List
- Automatic Character synchronization with PB-Roster component- Users can setup their own characters on their own profile. (For Joomla 1.5 UserMeta plugin required for this, for J!1.6 RaidPlanner has it’s own plugin for that)
- Downloadable, or subscribable personal calendar (ics format, iCal, Thunderbird etc. compatible)
- EQDPK XML format history can be stored to past events
Installation
Download the package from here: https://github.com/Taracque/RaidPlanner/archives/master
Install it with Joomla installer. During the installation a module will be installed also (RaidPlanner Today), this can be enabled in the Module Manager page of the Joomla Admin interface.
The installer and the component now works under Joomla 1.6, however it is mainly untested
Configuration
RaidPlanner Groups must be setup before anything else. Those groups defines access privilegs for RP.
Every unasigne user will be assigned automatically to the Default group.
Once you have finished the group configuration, the Characters should be loaded into the system somehow, there are 2 ways do doing this. Either you can enter characters manually – in that case all characters should be entered manually – or, it can be made automatically with PB-Roster component. RP automatically detect PB-Roster and uses it if presents.
Besides PB-Roster another thing can make the life easier. Users can store their own characters in profile.- Joomla 1.6: RaidPlanner automatically installs a plugin which handles extra user fields, but this plugin needs to be enabled and configured manually in Extension Manager.
- Joomla 1.5: for this functionality UserMeta plugin is required. Add this 2 params to the users, add the following lines to the user.xml file (located in plugins/system/usermeta directory)
<param name="characters" type="textarea" default="" label="Characters" description="Characters, separated by newline!" rows="5" cols="60" />
<param name="calendar_secret" type="text" default="" label="Secret for calendar subscription" description="Secret for calendar subscription" size="20" />
Known problems
Under Joomla 1.6 PBRoster integration should be turned off manually, otherwise an ugly warning displayed on frontend if PBRoster is not installed.
Documentation
To be added…
Read the FAQ instead.
Please use the Discussion board to discuss RaidPlanner related things!
Been trying it out, cant figure out how to sign people up for the raids.
And second, im trying to config it to fit another game but cant find where it loads races from?
I’ve just added the Race administration things to backend. Download the current version from github and give it a try.
Users needs to be added to groups, where `signup` permission is allowed. Also characters needs to be added to users, ‘cos signups are character based.
Once it’s ready every user of those groups can signup to the raid on the frontend.
Hi,
i tried to get the planner running, but when i tried to install the RP with joomla extension manager i recieved the error:
Warning: constant() [function.constant]: Couldn’t find constant JPATH_ in /www/htdocs///libraries/joomla/installer/adapters/module.php on line 74
then when i try to open a event the joomla popup tries to open it but fails without error.
if you wanna have a look, i have the RP on public access:
http://www.nirraven.com/spielwiese/
Forgot to mention, i use Joomla 1.6.3
PBRoster is turned off
Installer error now fixed, I’ve also fixed the popup thing in Firefox.
Grab the latest version from github and give it a try.
REM: the popup problem is in the joomla core (especialy in Mootools / SqueezeBox / Firefox trio), more details here: http://digitarald.de/forums/topic.php?id=2232
I did install RaidPlanner and PBRoster, but RaidPlanner doesn’t fill the characters. How can I solve this because I don’t wanna put in all names manually.
Which version of Joomla are you using? To make this works, characters needs to be assigned to Users. In Joomla 1.6 this can be made with RaidPlanner plugin, under 1.5 you have to use UserMeta plugin. Please check the FAQ about UserMeta setup.
Hi,
I’m Interested in using this component. However, I was wondering if a guild input could be added (something as easy as a droplist with guildmember/allied/others) as well as simple view (the previous guildmembers ordered by class and levels for instance).
This would be a great addition to the component given most of the planner/roster apps, like WoW’s, Lotro’s or EQII’s are dependent of an online update. Yours is the first to be completely independent, hence customizable for other games.
Hi,
I’m not sure I understand what you need. Can you explain “guild input” a bit more? Everything is made game independent, however with PBRoster WoW armory sync can be done. Please post an example what you mean!
Thx,
Taracque
Hi again
Guild input is simply somewhere where you could tell whether you’re a member of the guild, member of another guild or member of an allied guild (or even directly ask for the guild’s name on the character form). Thus, have a guild form like you have for races and classes.
The second thing I was wondering is your planner allow for calendar view (hence the planner’s name), What would be a nice addition would be to allow a “light” roster view from the frontend. Something quite like wowroster, lotroroster and so on, where you would view all your guildmembers sorted by class and level).
In fact, quite the same stuff as PBroster does, except PB-roster (and most rostering apps) is armory dependent while yours is not and then can be used for games where no armory is available.
For instance, a simple view like http://drupal.org/files/images/wowarmory_roster.preview.png or http://www.lostrealm.ca/lotrosterdemo/ (just name / class / level / race would be enough).
Thanks for such a quick answer
Roster light: As characters can be administrated on the backend, I’ll add the frontend view for that in the next couple of days.
On the other hand, a full “self” character management can be cause problems, for example if you allow registration on your site (character identity theft), so I think this must be an administrator job. I’ll think it over, how this can be self-service.
Hi there.
This is a nice tool, quite easy to handle. And nicer than phpraider when it comes to itegrating it with Joomla.
I came across a few bugs though (I’m using Joomla 1.5.15 French language) :
In the frontend when adding/editing a raid, date is not in the right format : 10.05.11 for instance instead of 2011-05-10, thus the raid is recorded as 30/11/1999.
Using usermeta with the lines to be added into user.xml will allow users to fill characters (one per line) and secret calendar, yet they are not available when joining a raid. Is there anything to add to the characters, like class, race and so on, or a simple “;” at the end of the line?
I also struggle a little with the ranks : didn’t know how to fill it, whether it was officer / Guildleader and so on, or numbers. Maybe a little helpline/example about it could be useful : if I fill with rank 0 for instance (0 being recruit for instance) and want to open a raid only to veteran (let say rank 3) and above, would this numbers be correct, or would I have to go the reverse ordre and fill 10 for recruits and 3 for veterans and above?
As for the roster view mentionned above, it would be a nice addition. As for the “self-service” characters, though the administrator can add them easily, it can be painful for large guilds with several alts. Even more painful if administrators must keep in line with people levelling up.
Another nice update to your roster would be to link faction with races and classes. In WoW for instances, available races depend on your side, and classes depend on your race (that’s exactly the same in the forecoming SW:ToR). Therefore, linking them all could allow to list only the characters available for a raid : if you plan an alliance raid in WoW, you couldn’t sign for a raid with a Tauren or a Blood-elf particularly when your server allow you with having a character in each faction (hence a guild could be both side).
Well, I think that’s it for now. Just my two cents after an evening setting up Raidplanner
May I enquire as to which coding needs to be changed for it to work with the time/date from frontend editing, I myself have encountered the same issue. Im a complete noob when it comes down to coding etc, so any help would be appreiciated. I do really like this component, and have transformed it a bit to suit my needs as a kinleader of a LOTRO kinship.
Any help is appreciated
thanks
Hamster
Hi
I’ve download last version of this componet, but i can’t configure it.
How can aquire all user using PB-Roster. My guilds member are over 300 and add all manualy is not ammisible
Another problem is when i create a raid. When i select it from the module i don’t see nothing if i non’t use sef. but if i use sef i’ve a redirection problem.
Can you help me?
Hi, can you tell me which version of Joomla are you using? Also please read the FAQ, there’s a description for both J!1.5 and J!1.6 which may helps you.
The other problem is not clear for me, can you give me a link for you site?
PHP creato il: Linux webxc13s06.ad.aruba.it 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Apr 12 18:52:55 EDT 2011 i686
Versione database: 5.0.92-enterprise-gpl-log
Collation Database: utf8_general_ci
Versione PHP: 5.2.17
Server Web: Apache/2.2
Server web per interfaccia PHP: cgi-fcgi
Versione di Joomla!: Joomla! 1.5.22 Stable [ senu takaa ama woi ] 04-November-2010 18:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16
Joomla version is 1.5.22
Other problem that i’ve is with SEF. When i use it i can’t see the component’s view.
Hey,
I’ve been trying the RP out, but I can’t get the signup to run.
I created/configured groups, added characters to users and those users to the groups.
So far, everythings fine, but when I create a Raid, the “Signup” button in the popup doesnt seem to do anything.
Given all rights, I can sign my character up, but I dont want to give every single raidmember those rights..
So, if you could tell me, where I went wrong, that would be great
I’m using Joomla 1.5.22, Taracque-RaidPlanner-2a9b8d2, UserMeta 1.6.3, and the pbroster0.36
I’ll be happy to give you more information, please tell me if you need anything else.
I encountered the same problem there Dave, the way I solved it was by switching Enabling a MooToolsAdvanced plugin that was lingering on my site (from a template)
Im not sure it will help you much, but it might just
Im running the same Joomla version. Though I do not have UserMeta or PBRoster installed due to my requirements being slightly different from a WoW guild
Be safe
Hamster
RaidPlanner doesn’t work without Mootools javascript framework. If popup not works, maybe MooTools is not working on your site. If you can give me a link, I can check if mootools is installed.
Same problem here :-/
Good job on the raid planner. I like it a lot.
I am having a what looks like a lang issue.
Here is a screenshot of my issue. http://bajamafia.com/misc/raidplannererror.jpg
As you can see the status and confirm do not pull from the language file. I also see this in the back end. Under the options for example. Good any ideas how I can resolve this?
Thanks again for your work on this app.
Which version of Joomla are you using?
Version 1.6.3
http://los.bajamafia.com
Hi. I use Joomla 1.63 and have a Problem.
when i try to open a event the joomla popup open it with a 50 % chance.
wehen joomla not open the popup i dont have an error message or somthing. this problem is only with Firefox. I have read your answer to another guy this is a joomla core problem. but this thing what you writ (mootools) i dont have installed. so what can i do?
thanks for your help
Mootools Javascript library is installed by deafult with joomla 1.6. Can you give me a link for you site? Maybe your template has some conflicts…
Pressing the ‘download calender’ button i receive the following error message?
What do i make wrong? – I’m using Joomla 1.5.23
BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//RaidPlanner//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:www.wow-phoenix.de X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Paris X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://www.wow-phoenix.de//index.php?option=com_raidplanner&view=calendar&Itemid=59 X-WR-CALDESC:www.wow-phoenix.de raidplanner END:VCALENDAR
Thanks in advance – kind regards Andi
This is an empty .ics file. Can you open it with any calendar program? (like Mozilla Sunbird)
Hello. Installed RaidPlanner and UserMeta plugin for a Joomla 1.5 install. RaidPlanner seems to work well except it doesn’t import the Characters from the profiles in Joomla. Is there something I am missing or does PBRoster also have to be used? I am trying to use this with EQ2 and not WoW so PBRoster will not help me.
Thanks!
I also noticed today that when new users register, they don’t get added to the default group…that has to be done manually. Is that normal?
Thanks.
Not it’s not normal. I’ll check it.
Unfortunately PB Roster doesn’t work anymore (as Blizzard changed the calendar api)
The new version of RaidPlanner will include an Armory sync, but until you have to enter character manually
Hello, encountering the same problem here, popup open with 50% chance.
Tried setting the default joomla template on my website and problem keep happening (exept with atomic default)
Runing Joomla 1.6.5, trying your nice component on a dev environment, but i can give you the link to teh same website (exept your component is not installed). If required i can get it online:
http://www.gw-central.eu/legendcommunity/index.php/wow/news
* Update: tested on IE and it’s working on IE.
Problem present on Firefox 5.0.1
Thanks for the feedback, I’ll test it.
Hello, I have two little problem with joomla 1.5.23. When I click for the popup to sign in we cannot see the role , there are in white and I cannot change it. There is a screen :
http://www.cendres-guilde.com/screen.jpg
There is some détails : I have mootools 1.2.5 and I’m hosted in a PHP : 5.3.6-6~dotdeb.1
Can you please check if there is nothing written there, or if the text is written in a white color?
I cant get the signup fields working (canlendar_secret and characters).
I did exactly what u wrote in the FAQ about 5 times now but it wont work.
Webserver: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny9 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_ruby/1.2.6 Ruby/1.8.7(2008-08-11) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
Joomla!-Version: Joomla! 1.5.23 Stable [ senu takaa ama baji ] 04-March-2011 18:00 GMT
Can you be more specific? Exactly what’s the problem?
Hi and tanks for this nice com :°)
i’m having a problem :
im using joomla 1.7 ( but every 1.6 extensions works with 1.7 ) and when i install this component, it install the module, the component but NOT the plugin.
That mean i assign characters :/
( and i suppose that’s why i’m getting a Access Forbidden when i try to access RaidPlanner ? )
i’ve tried to install it manually but i dont really get where every files have to go
Thanks for your help
I haven’t tried it with J!1.7 yet, so I have no clue what’s the problem. I’ll test it with J!1.7 ASAP and let you know what can be the problem.
HI,
thanks for this nice comp
i’m using it with j1.7
i’d like to know if there is a way that when we clic on an event (in the calendar) it doesnt “pop up” but simply open the event in the same page ?
another thing : looks like its IMPOSSIBLE to translate. Whatever i put on the .ini files doesn’t seem to work.
I haven’t tested RaidPlanner with J!1.7 yet. Currently it always opens in a popup, but I’ll ad an option which lets you disable popups.
thanks
i hope it will be released soon 
thanks for your work
Access Forbidden comes when i made an linkn to the raidplanner , i testet it on joomla 1.63 and 1.7 .
Is there any Tut to intregate the component fine to joomla. in the Plugins i don´t find any plugin from the raidplanner.
BW Webstyler
Access Forbidden error is given if the user has no right to view_calendar.
You can assign users to groups, and can setup group rights in RaidPlanner component of the Joomla Administration page.
Hi thanks for this RaidPlanner !
i have a problem with it.
I’d like that when we clic on an event, the pop-up open in a new page or on the same window. I dont want the pop-up because it open with scroll bars :/
thanks
This feature will be added in the next version. Please be patient.
Hi, loving this so far, thanks for your hard work and effort. Other than a little css styling changes i am working on i love this component!
I have one issue/change i would like to suggest. The RaidPlanner Today Module. Could this show the next 5/10 raids instead of just todays. Apart from that keep up the good work
Yes, there will be a new module for upcoming events.
Hi ,
I have a problem with RP . All is working fine but , when someone tries to click at ‘Sign up’ at the pop up raid p. window , it does nothing . So no one can sign up at the raid planner , only with total permission… Can someone help me please?
You have the “Attendants” and “Signup” button next to each other in popup window right? Please check your browser, that there is no javascript error on page. Signup button executes the following javascript code:
javascript:rpSwitchTab(‘signup’);
you can paste this into your browser’s address bar, press enter and check what happens.
It needs MooTools working, so if any reason MooTool is disabled, this will not work. There can be conflict with other javascript libraries, if you can post your site address, I can check it.
Thank you so much !! Now it works
. My problem like you said was that i hadn’t installed MooTool on my site , i downloaded Mootools Upgrade Plugin and now people can sign up .
I wanna ask you something more , i know is not your mod , but i have tried to install PB_Roster (hard to find, is not more in Joomla Official Page) , do you know where can i find this mod to make your RaidPlanner works 100%?
Hi,
first thanks for the Planer. I only have problems under j1.7. Install and Adding Users to Group per Hand is Ok. But when i set up an Raid in the planer, i cant set a Time. Always Error. Whitout Time, i can set up the raid, but in the Calendar i see %5sep (and so on) when i click on it, whith popup only. Thers Standig nothing in. When i open the Calendar with a Raid in it, i got the msg. Fehler beim Laden der Komponente: com_pbroster, 1 (Error on Loding Component: com_pbroster, 1) [Sry, German Site
] Can it be, thats the Planer have some Problems with the J1.7? Can u please test it and if so are, change it that i can run it under J1.7?
2nd Question: Can u wrote some more options? Such as upload for new Pics (Raid, Roles) Because we are playing not WoW. We are an Aion Legion
(Classes i wrote to Aionclasses, Races i delete all, only 1 i wrote to our Race)
I’m working on a Fully J1.7 compatible version, but it takes some time. Raid and roles icons can be freely replaceable, those files are stored on /images/raidplanner directory. The file naming is the following:
all lowercase, spaces replaced by underscore. For roles the ‘role_’ is used as a prefix. So for role Rocketeer the role_rocketeer.png image will be used.
Hey plz, still no news ? :/
You better update to public when you have corrected all the translation and the RAIDPLANNER_STATUS_ bugs instead of adding a lot of features :/
more than 4 months without a new update or a release date
PS: on the joomla extensions site ( http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/sports-a-games/world-of-warcraft-game/16627 ) i can’t answer you cause i’m not allowed to review 2 times.
Thanks for your work
i’m using J1.7
Sorry for the delay, but please understand, that I’m doing RaidPlanner in my spare time (and I don’t have much during this time) I don’t want to make promises what I can’t fulfill, but I’m working on it.
Good Morning,
we got the problem that raids cannot be created by members due to the different date format.
Used is the format DD.MM.YY which is normally here in germany. So if created like this raids well be set with format and time as 0000.00.00 00:00.
Can you tell where i can fix that. Also our members punish me cause of english used as language. I will try to change the terms to german, in which file is this located?
Or maybe you are interested in creating language files, so that i tell you the german terms?
Thanks alot!
Oh and, if created by members raids will be published 1 hour earlier than wanted. i guess due to the summertime.
Unfortunately currently RaidPlanner supports ISO format dates only. I’m working on a fix, hopefully it will be ready in a few days. Is not that easy to change the format, it needs to be converted back and forth
Il you have a problem with popup and joomla 1.7 change in “/components/com_raidplanner/assets/raidplanner.js” line 56:
before :
window.addEvent(‘domready’,function() {
if (MooTools.version==’1.3′) {
SqueezeBox.handlers.extend({
afer :
window.addEvent(‘domready’,function() {
var RE_VERSION = /^1.3/;
if (RE_VERSION.test(MooTools.version)) {
SqueezeBox.handlers.extend({
ps : sorry for my english
Thanks for the fix!
Do you need language french for your module (thanks for your work)
As Joomla 1.7 needs some structural changes even in language files, please wait with localization. Hopefully in a couple of days I can publish a working 1.7 version, which can be localized. And thanks for your help.
Anyone who is interested a test version for J1.7 is now in the Git repository.
https://github.com/Taracque/RaidPlanner/tree/J1.7
Please beware, this is an alpha version!
500 – DateTime::__construct() [datetime.--construct]: Failed to parse time string (13.09.11 21:00) at position 9 (2): Double time specification <– if i setup an Raid i got this message
Hopefully the newest version fixed this issue.
Is it possible, that the Planer didn´t need the pb-rooster? The Problem is, the PB-R is for WoW Guilds, so i must copy all Chars on my own to the Planer from all Members. Possible that the Members can say, this char is mine and save it to the profile?
I also didn´t see the extra Profilfields. Maybe thats the Problem under j1.7. Otherwise u can put in this Funktion to the Planer as a litle user control for the registed Users?
Under J1.6 and J1.7 RaidPlanner has its own plugin for character assignment. It’s called RaidPlanner plugin. The plugin installed autmatically, but it must be enabled manually.
I had first problem with armory sync. I solved it by intalling php5-curl on my server. Now sync works great but users cant enymore bind characters to joomla account. Eny ideas?
I had first problem with armory sync. I solved it by intalling php5-curl on my server. Now sync works great but users cant enymore bind characters to joomla account. Eny ideas?
I am usin 64bit ubuntu server 11.10, joomla 1.7.3 and I have tryed Taracque-RaidPlanner-0.3.8, Taracque-RaidPlanner-b68da61, Taracque-RaidPlanner-c134c7b with always same result. I have set groups etc but nothing seems to get it going.
Please post your problem in RaidPlanner Discussions next time!
How did you tried to bound chars to accounts?
Do you have RaidPlanner plugin enabled and published in Joomla?
It’s not working when:
1. New user register and apply characters
2. When old user edits own profile and selects characters and press “submit” button -> Character – No Information Entered
3. When I manually select user for character from administrator – raidplanner – characters – user name. I still see in profile characters – no information entered.
Raidplanner plugin is enabled and published
I have debug on and if you want I can give you account information to log in. Just giev email addres.
my website is http://routa.dyndns.org/routa/wow
I wound error message when trying “database check”:
500 – An error has occurred.
JDatabaseMySQL::query: 1146 – Table ‘fucku.rotta_raidplanner_characters’ doesn’t exist SQL=SELECT c.character_id,c.profile_id FROM rotta_raidplanner_characters AS c LEFT JOIN rotta_raidplanner_guild AS g ON g.guild_id = c.guild_id WHERE g.guild_name IS NULL
…but thay may be caused by debug mode because when I turn it off it works normally.
Hello good, I wanted to point out to you that if you could work and in the new version for joomla raidplanner 2.5, thanks
Huh, it should work with Joomla 2.5. What problem do you have? Which version of RaidPlanner doesn’t work with Joomla 2.5?
And please don’t use this page for feedback, leave your comments here instead:
http://taracque.hu/forums/forum/raidplanner-discussions/
Hello,
When I click on an event, the popup loads again and again but nothing happens.
I have tried to follow some previous advice from the other users but it still doesn’t work.
I use Joomla 1.7.
Thanks a lot,
Arkephyr
As it’s written on this page, this page is here only for historical reasons. Don’t post any comments here, go to Discussion board, and post your problem there.