Limiting Awards on a Per Day Basis

Hi @spiritxanas !!

Yes, it is possible to reduce the achievement of an achievement 1 time per day, for this you have to configure the achievement in the following way:
– Login to website 1 time(s) 1 per day
https://imgur.com/rwwfvYY

@pacogon at the moment, the options are 1 minute, 1 hour, etc.

I would like to be able to set a certain time or at least have more increments, like 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes.

The reason this functionality is so important is because students using my website can simply open up many tabs with the same thing, and then hit complete on all of them, with a time span of 1 minute, and take in a lot of points of a point type. I had students raking in 1000×5(point type) because they “enrolled in a new course”. needless to say, I do not have a 1000 courses. This was before I set the timer to once per hour, but this is not fair, as students do something start a new course twice within one hour.

Setting it to 1 minute makes exploiting this bug less appealing but still. 1 hour is far too long, because with fair work, they would not get XP when they deserve it.

If you have other recommendations about how to treat this problem, I am all ears.

Hi @dennisdevink

When you change the dropdown from “Unlimited” to any of the other options (minutes, hours, days, etc) you are able also to decide the amount of them you want, so make it 5 minutes, 10 hours or setup like this ones are completely possible:
https://gamipress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/limit.png

Hope it helps!

@rubengc I totally read the following line as:

“When [Complete a Quiz on a range of percent grade] [90%] – [100%] [1] time(s) limited to [5] [per minute]
Earn: [10] point type with a maximum…”

As:

If you complete the quiz with 95-100% 1 time, you can get 10XP 5 times per minute. The sixth time within a minute won’t result in points, but after the minute has passed, points will be awarded, 5 times at most, again.

Am I wrong?

Hi @dennisdevink

Here is an explanatory document that lets you see how those limitations works:
https://gamipress.com/docs/tutorials/how-the-awards-engine-works/

About the 5 minutes, sorry my fault, the GamiPress engine understands it as “per 1 minute” so you are limiting the maximum number of events to take in count in each minute, hour, day, …

You can configure it to 5 per minute
You can NOT configure it to 1 for every 5 minutes

Actually for 5 minutes is not possible, but those limitations includes several WordPress hooks so through a custom development, is completely possible to add custom ranges of “every 5 minutes” or “every 10 minutes”, but this may require a custom development

@rubengc Could you please mention those hooks which make it possible to add custom ranges?

Hi @xpertone

Of course, you have them here:
https://github.com/rubengc/GamiPress/blob/master/includes/admin/meta-boxes/requirements-ui.php#L544
https://github.com/rubengc/GamiPress/blob/master/includes/rules-engine.php#L1227

@rubengc thank you for the prompt response!
Can you please mention if another hook would be required to set the title of custom limit or that would be taken automatically from gamipress_requirement_limit_intervals

Hi @xpertone

With those filters the limit can be modified, but if you wish to add it to the requirement label (only when this requirement does not have a label), you may need to use this one:
https://github.com/rubengc/GamiPress/blob/master/includes/admin/meta-boxes/requirements-ui.php#L1298