I feel stupid asking this but your documentation is way outdated (probably for drupal 4.7 because I remember using it for that). I understand you're supposed to add a tax term for each type of action you want to grant points for, but how do you configure those terms - the action needed, the points awarded, etc. I cannot find to do this. Plus, not to be rude, but I think using the taxonomy system for this is a horrible idea and can lead to some problems (excess url aliases, bad sitemaps, needed entries in robots.txt, etc).

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jredding’s picture

jredding commented

well its good to see that you judge before you understand.

First you're not supposed to add a taxonomy term for each action you want to grant points for.

Second userpoints in version 6 is an API and doesn't do anything without a helper module. It states this directly on the front page of this module.

"Actions" (items that award points) are done by a secondary module in a similar fashion to how the voting API and fivestar works. The most common action is with userpoints_nc (http://drupal.org/project/userpoints_nc) which allows you to grant points for the creation of nodes as well as comments.

You could also use "actions" as in the actions in Drupal 6 core or use rules (http://drupal.org/project/rules) to grant points based on system events.

You do *not* need to use taxonomy if you only have one set (i.e. a pool) of points. Taxonomy is used to differentiate and categorize your points (ex. mileage points, cash rewards, etc.)

I don't understand your point about robots.txt, bad site maps, etc. If you really think this is the case I kindly ask you to clarify yourself as I'm confused.

Also if you could point out which documentation you were reading and why it is confusing it would be helpful. Even more helpful would be if you could take 10 minutes and write a more concise more defined tutorial when you understand how to use this module

This is OSS and we all work together to make it great.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Okay, so I think the name of this module is a bit confusing. Maybe renaiming this to "user points API" would fix that.

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Bilmar commented
Status: Active » Fixed

This looks to be 'fixed' with the nice explanation in #1

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.