Trophies vs. User Promotions

[sophie1204]

I'm a little confused by the Trophy system. In my vbulletin forum -- which I'm in the middle of converting to xenforo -- people's user groups changed via post count, as did their ability to view certain forums. Is this something that's now taken over by the Trophy system? And if not, other than just giving the user a thumbs up, what does the Trophy system do?

 

[Paul B]

The trophy system primarily governs the user title.

http://xenforo.com/help/trophies/

 

[sophie1204]

Then what are User Group promotions, and how do they fit in?

 

[Paul B]

They are for assigning different permissions based on certain criteria: http://xenforo.com/help/user-group-promotions/

User titles can also be affected via user groups, if the override function is enabled: http://xenforo.com/help/user-groups/

 

[sophie1204]

I've tried for 2 days to get the trophy system to work, to no avail. Can someone PLEASE help?

I'm trying to get the user group title to change, once a certain level of points are achieved.

I've set up the points, I've set up the group promotions, I've set up the group names. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Paul B]

As per the other threads you have posted on (and the ticket), you need to wait for the cron task to run and it will only process members who have been active recently.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/all-my-members-imported-as-new-members.28093/

You can perform this edit to change the core behaviour: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/trophy-user-titles-issue-after-import.6973/#post-99551

 

[sophie1204]

Thanks. I'm sorry; I'm not a technical person so I've really been wrestling with this. I truly appreciate the help.