GuildAdmin Cataclysm

How to use

• Open the guild frame
  • If you have a very slow connection, wait until Guild Frame is updated completely (showing all guild events)
• Click on the button on the upper right corner next to the close button
• Use search or filter and apply to get the list of players without guild according to current filter settings
• In the filter frame you may activate or deactivate all classes, races and reputations by simply clicking on the title
• Use the buttons on top the filter frame to switch between filter options general and recruiting
• If not done so, create some text templates in the chat options frame. Give them a name by pressing the new button and define some text like "Hi %s, do you want to join our guild". %s will be replaced by the players name and can only be used one time in a text template. The names defined will be available in the whisper context menu for every listed player to select.
• Use the right click on listed entry to whisper with text templates, invite or set reputation
• On mouse over a tooltip shows the class, name, reputation, contact and invite details
• Tip: Applying filters results in more recruiting candidates as the who list limits to 50 chars that match the filter. If no filter is given, 50 chars are returned randomly. Unluckily there is no way to filter directly for players without guild, only by sorting and inspecting.

Concept & Differences

Guild Admin Cataclysm is a completely reworked light-weight minimalistic version of the former GuildAdmin. The main intention was to concentrate on recruiting functionality, as the new guild interface offers a lot of information GuildAdmin took care so far. I'm not longer using localization files, instead I'm extensively using the global Blizzard localization from _G. Thus it even should work in chinese except for the date format and for differences in the translation and interpretation. Would be happy to know if it works in Korean or Chinese too (especially for filtering).

GuildAdmin is highly integrated in the guild console from Blizzard. Using a button like Ackis Recipe List to open GuildAdmin. No longer support for Titan Panel or FuBar is needed.

The redesign leaves old database data untouched, so they can be imported later, when this function is available.

Special thanks go to the team around Ackis Receipe List and the inspiration they gave me.

Status

The current version is an early beta, which works so far but is missing still some functionality. No maintenance for saved player information is possible so far, except when the known player is online, still without guild and displayed in the search panel.

Also the file is tagged as release it should be considered an beta version.

Currently implemented:

• search for players without guild
• define up to 10 whisper templates with free definable titles
• support the use of one %s variable within the whisper text (will be replaced by players name)
• default Bilzzard class color used for the list of player without guild
• set the reputation of an player related to recruiting using the Blizzard reputation system.
• colored list entries on mouse over related to the reputation using red (hated - unfriendly), yellow (neutral), green (friendly, honored), blue (revered, exalted)
• whisper to, invite, set reputation for or set a small 30 char note for the selected player using the context menu
• tooltip for every player on mouse over with the recent details of recruiting
• sort by the header buttons on click
• filter by race, class, level, reputation, contact counts and invited counts

Fixed problems

• sort and search are now reacting immediately, no more extra clicks (hope so) needed
• context menu is now opened by right click as known for other context menus
• no empty text template names possible
• overwriting of existing text templates is not possible anymore
• edit box for text template is clamped correctly to the frame
• error message if updating GuildAdmin from 0.0.0.0.6 to 0.0.0.0.6a and using filtering
• gender problem in filtering fixed
• filtering for korean language fixed
• no right or left click anymore for toggling all races, classes and reputations by clicking on the title. Any click will toggle state.

Planned

• known player maintenance
• import of already known player data

Known problems

• edit box for template whisper text doesn't always gain the focus
• who frame pops up
• who frame searches do update GuildAdmin frame if sort buttons are used after a who frame search (workaround do not use the who frame in the friends frame while using GuildAdmin, except for sorting or do a new search / apply filters)