DKP Scribe 6.0 Changelog (these changes are not shown in the help files)

Most of the changes with 6.0 are to accomodate large guilds. My guild gives DKP to people who show up for raid but do not get picked to participate if they are willing to stay around on stand by. Some of the changes are to accomodate this system. The terms "sitting" or "Sat out" are used to refer to these people.


Changes to Export process
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1. It has always been possible to run 2 copies of DKP Scribe from 2 different folders so that guilds with an excess of 40 players can still use the app. For example, my guild puts tanks and healers in one folder, and scouts and mages in another folder. With this version you will have the option to export without the html header or without the html footer. This will allow easy pasting of 2 seperate html exports into 1 html table.( the preview button will not function properly for exports generated without the header file.)

2. You will also notice a "Status" checkbox in the export options. When this box is checked, the export table will include the status of each player for this raid. The status list is as follows:

Raided    This means they were market present
Absent    This means they were not marked present
Sat Out   This means they were marked presant and also marked as Sitting(more on this later)
Excused   This means that they were marked absent but also marked excused so their absence will not effect           their attendance

The color of the words is determined by a sliding scale of how often they have sat out in relation to how often they sit. The colors mean the following:

Blue =  Has not sat out lately at all
green = Has sat out lately but not much
yellow = Has sat out a few times
orange = Has sat out often
red    = Has sat out too much

Every time a player sits out, their color will move one color toward red. Every time a player raids their color will move one color toward blue.

This feature was added for larger guilds to help them with rotating players fairly into the raid.


Changes to interface
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1. A "sitting" check box has been added to the right of the DKP totals. This is to accomodate larger guilds who allow players who are asked to sit out from the raid to still earn DKP for being availible. When this box is checked, the exported status of this player will be "Sat Out" and the status color will change accordingly. This box should never be checked if they are not also marked as present

2. The shadow color around the "sitting" box represents how often they have sat out in relation to how often they raid. The color scale is the same as what is listed above in the changes to export process.

3. The "Adjust attendance" button has been changed to "Adjust attendance and save" When this button is pushed it will also save your dkp numbers the same as the save button from the front page. You will recieve a warning that you are overwriting your old data.

4. When you save with either save button a new file will show up in your DKP Scribe directory. This file called dkpold.ini is a backup of the data before the save. (for this reason it is best to save only once)

5. For purposes of error correction, if you export a file without adjusting attendance it will show the prevous days percentage.


Changes to pass through commands
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1. The "/satout" command has been removed. (I don't believe anyone used it anyway)

2. If any player types the word "sitting" into your custom DKP channel, they will automatically be marked as present, sitting, and on time if it is before the designated start time. (sitting must be the first word of of what they post). This takes the burdon of keeping track of sitting players off the shoulders of the person keeping dkp and onto those players who wish to claim dkp for being on stand by. Their sitting statement will also be added to the transcription if transcribing is turned on.


Bonus
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my guild saves all plat earned till the end of the month and does a plat split based on attendance.(People who are asked to sit from the raid get a share as if they raided.)
I have included an excel spread sheet that will use your attendance.ini files to determine this split. It is in the folder named "Bonus" along with instructions on how to use it.