While the update last week added quite a few new features to the DKP section we received some feedback from users about changes they wanted to see; in response to this we have pushed live another update tonite to the DKP section, aiming to improve it further based on your feedback =)

30 Day Attendance
30 Day attendance, along with the Lifetime attendance, is now shown on the Attendance page and the Raider details page, for guilds wishing to track DKP by the past month.




DKP In Member and Character Profiles
DKP has been re-enabled in the Member and Character profile pages. If a character's name matches a raiders name, the raiders dkp will be shown there; and the Members dkp tab will show an overview of each of their chars dkp.


Item Links Themable
Item link colors are now themable in the Theme Editor, by default they are set to the notice_text color, to match how they were displayed before, but you can customize them in the theme editor now.


Adding New Raid Remembers DKP System
When adding a new raid, we now check the DKP system of the last raid you added and use that as the default for your new raid. So if you are only using zerosum, you will not always have to select zerosum when you add a new raid, it will be set for you automatically.


Performance
This past week you may have experienced poor performance visiting your site, especially the DKP section; this was due to a combination of issues in the DKP update we put live that was causing issues, and us applying hotfixes throughout the week to address them.

With this update, any performance issues should be gone, and working with the DKP system should be quick, even when you are working with a large raid or have a lot of DKP data for your site.


Further Enhancements
We are planning to do one more pass of polish on the DKP section before moving on to the Progressions update, adding a "Mass Add" feature to the Raid Edit page; if there is other enhancements you would like to see let us know and we may be able to include them with this next update =)

The DKP update we have been working on for over a month is now live! =) This update is almost a full rewrite of our DKP section and contains a ton of enhancements, polish and new features.

Characters -> Raiders
As mentioned in our preview of this update, DKP is no longer associated with characters but will be associated with raiders. To support this, there is a new Raiders admin page to manage your raiders.

The Raiders admin page allows you to create and edit your raiders. You can delete raiders but only if they have no DKP data associated with them. You can also flag raiders as active or inactive; inactive raiders will not show up on your standings or attendance pages or blocks.




Raider Pools
You can now create Raider Pools. A Raider Pool is a collection of raiders that consider their DKP to be one source.

An example use of a Raider Pool is, if Joe's Main is the tank Beefskewer, but he switches to his alt healer Zagdush to help out the raid, any DKP he earns with Zagdush he wants to count towards his main Beefskewer. A Raider Pool can then be made for these two raiders, and their DKP can be viewed together in the raids section.

Raider Pools should only be used if you need them, as it will complicate your DKP section more; and in most cases in the above example you could just manually add the DKP from Zagdush to Beef. But if you are using an automated DKP method such as CTRaidTracker, the pools can help then, since the addon will pick up both characters and include them in the XML; but if they are pooled then you do not need to worry about editing it later.


Raid Pools
Raid Pools are another new feature with this update. A Raid Pool allows you to pool raids together so you can treat their DKP separate from other DKP.

An example use of a Raid Pool is if you raid multiple dungeons, and one dungeon is easy and has lower level loot, and another dungeon is harder and has higher level loot; you may not want your raiders to be able to earn DKP in the easy dungeon, and then spend that DKP in the harder dungeon. So you can create a separate Raid Pool for the harder dungeon, and track it so only DKP earned from that dungeon may be spent there.

Raid Pools existed previously as "Raid Sets", but they were more obscure and harder to use on the site; they have been given more UI attention and should make it easier to view DKP in different Raid Pools throughout the DKP section now. If you were using Raid Sets before they have been converted to Raid Pools for you.

*note: It is not in as part of this update, but limiting the amount of Raid Pools you can have is something we may do in the future; for example limits such as 5 pools for standard, 10 pools for pro and 20 pools for premium. The reason for this is that each raid pool causes a great deal of extra calculations for the raids section.


Enhanced Standings Page
The DKP standings page has been updated to include Raid Pools and Raider Pools, and has received some polish, highlighting the column you are currently sorting by.




New Attendance Page
This update also includes our new Attendance page, which shows the attendance for all of your raiders in one page, It includes counts of the amount of raids the raider has been on versus the total raids, along with a percentage representation; and the attendance can be filtered to be shown only for a specific raid pool.

*note: one feature we wanted to include with this update was the option to filter attendance by time; this unfortunately was taking too much time to complete so we have delayed it to a future update. For now if you want to see recent attendance the best option would be to group raids into a raid pool and view the attendance for that raid pool




Greatly Improved Raid Edit Page
The Edit page for a raid has seem many improvements. Previously, an edit option was not available for much of the data entered into a raid; if you made a mistake entering a raid item you had to delete it and then re-add it. No longer, everything is now editable =) You can edit raid events, raid items, raid adjustments and raid hours.

A more compact UI is now in place for the Edit Raid page, making it easier to work with raids that have a lot of data. Some of the information has been tucked away in the edit popup to make the page cleaner and easier to work with.



The edit popup has been made consistent and works nearly the same for editing raid events, raid items, raid hours and raid adjustments, which should make the raids page easier to learn and faster to work with.




More Informative Raids Show Page
The details page for a raid now contains more information; adjustments for the raid are now shown on the page and comments are allowed.


Raid Items Have Their Own Page
Raid Items now have their own details page, which includes an embedded tooltip, a history of the past drops of the item and comments for the item.

*note: currently the embedded tooltips are only available for WoW, but we have some exciting plans for this for other games we will be announcing soon =)




Raider Details Page Enhanced
The raider details page now contains more information, showing points and attendance for each raid pool as well as their global totals. It also shows the raiders entire raids and items history you can paginate through.




All DKP blocks Updated
Our DKP blocks you can add to your site for the home and side columns have been updated to take advantage of the new Raid Pools feature. When you add the blocks to your site, you can pick what raid pool they will show content from, so for example, the Most Current block you can pick to have it show the points from only a certain pool; or show only the latest raids or items from a certain pool.




Default Raids link renamed to DKP
We initially choose to call the DKP section Raids, and made a default link in the Navigation you can enable called Raids that points to /raids. This has caused some confusion for users not knowing it is the DKP section, and as we are looking to support future systems like Loot Council or generic Raid tracking without DKP, we have decided to rename this to DKP,

The default link is now called DKP and points to /dkp, which is the DKP Standings tab. If you prefer the old method, you can create a new Menu Item in the Navigation tab of your site admin, call it Raids and set its url to /raids, and then disable the DKP link, and it will function exactly as before.


Improvements to XML Upload
Our XML upload (originally mentioned here - http://www.mmoguildsites.com/blog/47) feature now supports Raid Adjustments. The format for adding adjustments with the XML upload is:

<adjustments>
<key1>
<reason>Late</reason>
<amount>-5</amount>
<attendees>
<key1>
<name>Beefskewer</name>
</key1>
<key2>
<name>Rhazul</name>
</key2>
</attendees>
</key1>
<key2>
<reason>Early</reason>
<amount>3</amount>
<attendees>
<key1>
<name>Ruol</name>
</key1>
<key2>
<name>Malkor</name>
</key2>
</attendees>
</key2>
</adjustments>

Update: Albert suggested in the comments below the XML upload feature create raiders if they do not exist on your site yet using info from the XML; this was an excellent suggestion and is now live on the site =)

Support for DKP Addons Intact
The addons our users have helped create or make work with MMO Guildsites will still continue to work amidst all the changes to the DKP section; these include Phaye's Complete Addon, DKPmon and CTRaidTracker.


*Special Note on Deleted Chars With DKP
With the old DKP system, DKP was associated with characters, and it was possible to delete characters. If you did this it left the DKP associated with a ghost reference in most cases, showing the text of the deleted chars name and their DKP for that raid, but you couldn't click on it and they wouldn't show up in the standings.

With our new system, DKP is associated with raiders, and raiders with DKP can never be deleted to avoid these situations; and we have reinstated deleted chars who had DKP as raiders on your site. Because of this you may notice some old raiders show up in your standings; to hide them go to the Raiders tab and then click the green icon next to their name to switch them to inactive.

Let us know what you think
This update drastically changes several parts of the DKP section, and we'd love to hear what you think so we can keep enhancing the site and making it even better; post in the comments here or send us an email at staff@mmoguildsites.com