WoW rollcall app

Hey all,

Instead of leveling and questing, I spent some time to create a little web application to manage all the rollcall lists and profession lists. You can check it out here:

http://a7an.europe.webmatrixhosting....

Some Notes:[list]
[*]It uses ASP.NET frontend written in C#.
[*]It uses XML as a database backend
[*]I'm not sure if there are concurrency issues with using xml as a database.
[*]The code has not been heavily tested.
[*]Code is not optimized for performance.
[*]I'm hosting it on a free hosting service that will expire.
[*]The columns are sortable.
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Is creating something like this worthwhile?

I even have some crazy ideas of skinning it with the stuff from Blizzard fan site kite, screen-scraping from thottbot to import current levels, adding more columns like guild and ranks, adding filters, adding paging, etc.

That''s really cool, a7an!

Oh yeah, there is no security in mind at all to the wise guy with the security comment ;-). Everyone has READ (Read, Add, Edit, Delete) rights. The list is only temporarily so the data is not important at this point. Adding security shouldn''t be that bad but would require time.

Awesome a7an! How do you link characters to thottbot? I tried doing a character profile search for my characters and it returned nothing.

"Propagandalf" wrote:

Awesome a7an! How do you link characters to thottbot? I tried doing a character profile search for my characters and it returned nothing.

Thanks! You need cosmos installed and configured to run thottbot. Another character running cosmos with thottbot can also target you and upload your profile to the thottbot database.

I personally don''t mind about how people can be uploaded to thottbot without their ''permission''. What do others think of this?

Don''t mind or don''t like? This is the first I''ve heard of this ""feature"", not sure how I feel about it yet.

a7an, pretty cool. Can you add dropdowns? Instead of freeform races, classes, professions, have dropdowns? And this might be a lot of keying, but does the region matter, if so, can you make it auto-populate based on the server picked?

Put your character name in here. If someone running cosmos with updates to Thottbot and they''ve clicked on you you''ll have been added to the database.

Nice. If you need any help with coding, I can offer my services as available since I do a lot of ASP.NET C# programming, including using DPAPI security and forms authentication security.

Very nicely done a7an. I think this will come in very handy once more of the guild add in their info.

EDIT: One suggestion. Would it be possible to add an Alliance/Horde column so that when searching the listings they can be listed by faction?

And here''s the link to GWJ Alliance Guild on thottbot:

http://www.thottbot.com/?f=p&guild=G...

No humans in the Guild? No warriors or Pallys?

EDIT: this probably isnt the complete list...

Very nice and handy A7an!

That Thottbot stuff is pretty amazing--you can find out what items people are wearing? I''m not sure I want everyone to know what color underwear I have on. Especially when it''s Spidey day.

Not a complete list, and not up-to-date, I''m almost lvl 20 now and that still has me at 16. Does it only update when you run the cosmos.exe?

"LeapingGnome" wrote:

Not a complete list, and not up-to-date, I''m almost lvl 20 now and that still has me at 16. Does it only update when you run the cosmos.exe?

I don''t think so. I ran Cosmos last night and its a few levels behind on me also.

it only updates you if you''re running comsos with the ''update profile'' enabled or if someone else who is updating profiles clicks on you during one of their sesssions it will update. I think there is a lag time on updates of at least a couple of hours.

So if you''re not updating and you''re present someone else updated you and it will be out of date in a few days (at our levels).

I have no idea why i quoted myself....

"Eezy_Bordone" wrote:

I personally don''t mind about how people can be uploaded to thottbot without their ''permission''. What do others think of this?

Considering that it doesn''t report anything that isn''t already publicly available in-game (by right-clicking on someone''s portrait and inspecting them) I have no problem with it.

"Grinfin" wrote:

That Thottbot stuff is pretty amazing--you can find out what items people are wearing? I''m not sure I want everyone to know what color underwear I have on. Especially when it''s Spidey day.

Don''t need Thottbot for that. You can click on any player in the game, right click on their portrait and select ""Inspect""(or something like that) and it brings up their character profile exactly like when you press C and look at yourself.

Thanks for the feedback all. Once I find a good and cheap asp.net host, I''ll work on this lil side project more with the suggestions from this thread.

Excellent!

You know what else would be awesome, is if someone could do what grumpicus did with the halo avatars. When you log into the WoW forums it uses your in-game avatar, much like bungie.net links to your halo character. I guess the roadblock would be that you don''t have to actually log into bungie.net to get a character profile, unlike WoW''s forum. Too bad, really as it would be cool to use your WoW in-game avatar here, with your current level, etc. (like what you see on the WoW forums.)

"Propagandalf" wrote:

You know what else would be awesome, is if someone could do what grumpicus did with the halo avatars. When you log into the WoW forums it uses your in-game avatar, much like bungie.net links to your halo character. I guess the roadblock would be that you don''t have to actually log into bungie.net to get a character profile, unlike WoW''s forum. Too bad, really as it would be cool to use your WoW in-game avatar here, with your current level, etc. (like what you see on the WoW forums.)

That''s a great idea. I''m not exactly sure how grumpicious got it too work though. Also Blizzard isn''t as open as Bungie about user profiles even when logged in. I''ll think on it though.

WoW''s forums don''t use your exact in-game avatar. They use a default portrait based on race/sex. It''s prolly be easy enough to download and use these portraits. The only thing that that would require your login is the lvl on the portrait since your name and class stay static after you create your character.

"Eezy_Bordone" wrote:

WoW''s forums don''t use your exact in-game avatar. They use a default portrait based on race/sex. It''s prolly be easy enough to download and use these portraits. The only thing that that would require your login is the lvl on the portrait since your name and class stay static after you create your character.

Racial potraits are in!

Yep, I noticed the same thing and it was easy enough to implement. I''m not sure how to acquire Level information though. I guess I can screenscape it off thottbot.

Nice a7an, can you make them a little smaller though, they space out the table a lot.

You would have to dedicate a whole page for all my characters!

"LeapingGnome" wrote:

Nice a7an, can you make them a little smaller though, they space out the table a lot.

Done!

I also added two new columns for Guild and Sex. Fixed the sorting so that you can sort ASC or DESC. I also added paging and removed the delete functionality.

I''m still in the process of looking for a home for this app.

My character still doesn''t show up in thottbot today even after I turned everything on in Cosmos and I had someone with upload click on me. Bah!