Hey guys. I've been asking a lot of questions lately, so I figured I'd maybe contribute by sharing a nice trick I use.

You can use UniUploader to automatically download the current DKP values from your website every time you launch WoW. What this means is, when you exit to upload DKP, all you have to do is launch WoW (using the uploader, of course) and your DKP is current. Likewise, you can set up a couple people in your guild (even if they don't actually admin DKP) this way just so that you'll have multiple people with current DKP online.

If you enable your advanced options in UniUploader, you get an advanced tab. I've configured the following to make this trick work:



Under Retrieve Data, the string you can paste in is:


And paste this underneath "SV File to write to:"



Sorry about that tricky path, but UniUploader uses a relative path reference (savedvariables). However, doing it in this manner lets you "back out" of that directory so you always write your DKP to the right spot!

Good luck!

Made this post a sticky. Thanks!

Not sure if it has been mentioned anywhere else, but if you want to use this method (which is great btw), you'll need to either:
a) Uncheck "Private DKP" in the website Roster/DKP settings

or

b) Supply Username & Password in the "Additional Variables" section of the Options tab in UniUploader.

Otherwise the Guildomatic_static.lua file will just contain your frontpage with a permissions error in it.

Edit: Just found it noted that you have to login in the Code update for 2008/05/04 in the General forum. You can still work around it though with UU as above.

/Laurits

Correct! And thank-you.

Setting up the above configuration requires that you have already set up UniUploader for automatic roster uploads (per the instructions already available on this site.)

Assuming you've done that, the above instructions should work flawlessly for you.

Good luck!

-Agilurso

Thanks for this useful post, I got the auto download thing going but for some odd reason it won't upload properly.. There is no change to the website when I use uniuploader to upload.

Any ideas?

I haven't played WoW in over a year now, and likewise haven't touched a DKP mod in about the same.

I do recall that I incurred some issues with Vista/Window7 pertaining to file-locations in WoW. This guide was originally written for Windows XP. My guess is that perhaps the "../../../" path reference is probably much different if you're using one of those Operating Systems.

If you tinker with it a bit I think you can probably get it. Each ".." corresponds to a directory you're trying to go "up" before you finally get to the "interface" directory, and then it traverses back down to the actual .LUA file you're trying to upload.

I don't have WoW loaded, so I can't tell you what it would be, but perhaps someone else out there has already figured it out and can maybe post an answer?

*EDIT: I'd also like to point out that it's possible there might have been some changes made to UniUploader since I made this how-to. Particularly with respect to the directory it 'starts' in. I wish I could be of more help, but these two items are what I'd look at first if I couldn't get anything to upload.


Good luck!

-Agilurso

Thanks mate for your reply..

I think what you are saying about the ../../../ is for the downloading part of the uniuploader right?

Im only having probs with the UPLOADING.. for some reason its just not doing it. I have set my wow.exe location, ive set the correct account name and the auto_upload link and my username/pass but still just doesn't update it.. followed the guide exact.

PS i think its exellent that you come out of retirement to post here and try to help me

cheers m8

Bah, my bad! Uploading! I've gotten rusty.

I'm assuming that when you manually point to the .LUA everything is fine?

I don't know which guide you're referring to, but it looks like some of my old how-to's are still on our old guild site: http://www.mafiosoguild.com/page/show/23248

Note, I don't think I even have an account on that site anymore, so that info is probably pretty old, but before I left that information worked flawlessly.

If this is something that you still can't get to work, I'd honestly consider submitting it as a bug. I'll call some of the people I used to play with and see if they've run into the same thing. If so, then it's probably a bug.

Thanks,

-Agilurso


EDIT: Also, and for the record, I seem to recall that in-game you could perform a /script reloadui(), and your in-memory DKP info would then be saved down to the .LUA file. So, in case you crashed, you could still manually upload DKP before you launched WoW again, and upon launching you'd be current. I wanted them to put an option for it in the MOD but I don't ever know if they did. Not that this is entirely related, but I've got tidbits of knowledge making its way back to me now. Next thing you know I'll be in a guild rocking the DPS charts as a feral druid, again.

Im refering to the guildomatic guide for uniuploader.. i followed it to the word and it doesn't upload.. says it is but it doesnt seem to actually "update" the DKP stats.

And yep it works perfect when I manually point the website to the LUA file..

Thanks mate, I just thought id ask in this thread for help as you seemed to know more about uniuploader than guildomatic does. hehe

EDIT..
I have used /reload with other addons to make sure the info gets saved. So this will work with DKP too.. thats good to know!

I hope you DO come back to WoW and help the devs here sort this damn addon out because it lacks a lot of functions

Cheers!

Wish I could help more.

You seem to have a really good grasp on what you're doing. I'll ask an old buddy if it stopped working within the last year or so. If that's the case, then at least you know the issue is in the Dev's hands and not yours.

Hasta-

Agilurso

Thanks mate, you're too kind!
Sadly I don't have a lot of faith in the devs updating anything at the min.. I have seen feature requests made in early 2009 still not been put in.

And yes I am an IT technician so I know my way around things like this
Sadly I am useless ad coding.. or I would make my own addon hehe


Cheers again

Can you provide a date/time when you attempted this with UniUploader? The only way we can go about debugging this is if we look through the logs to see where things got held up.