After spending a few days gutting a couple AddOns and fiddling with how things are displayed with a couple different Profile management tools I've come to the conclusion that neither do exactly what I want.

The first one is very simple (the one I've been having a few of you test), and doesn't break things out very well. The upside is that everything is housed here and it's relatively easy to update.

The second I tried was http://www.wowcompanion.net/. It breaks everything out a lot better (I found out that's what that one website was using), but they store all the data on their servers and you can just query it on a character-by-character basis. It looks really nice and has a lot of good information, but I can't easily do a table of contents or anything without maintaining a separate table, which I suppose is doable. You can see an example of it here: http://www.littleurbanelites.com/members/profile.php?player=Ulic&server=Lightbringer

If someone wants to create an account on WoWCompanion and upload their data, that would be cool.

Anyway, now I'm trying to determine if I want to do some kind of hybrid or just implement all the cool bells and whistles into the standalone profiler. It's essentially the question of do we want something that works pretty good now, that requires a little more maintenance, or do we want to wait a month or so for me to flesh out the other one. I'm leaning towards the former.

Meh, I know someone lazy like myself would love something automatic that updated when ya logged on. But either works.

Yea, that's why I haven't completely ruled out the first solution. I may be able to do some kind of hybrid. Use the client from WoWCompanion, and modify the CharacterProfiler AddOn so that it breaks out the information in a more usable way. I'll sit down one of these days (when I'm not grinding), and work on the AddOn. If it turns out easier than I think it's going to be, I'll do it that way.

Okay, I'm probably about a day away from calling it good and opening it up. I ended up using the front-end from wow-companion, but modifying the backend so that it pulls data from our database. Now I'm going through and modifying the import routines from wowprofiler so that it loads the new stuff that rpgoutfitter's CharacterProfiler collects.

You can see the work in progress (updater is currently down while I work on it), at http://www.littleurbanelites.com/members The data for Fllay is relatively old, so it doesn't show much. The data for my record is more recent. I may try reloading his data and see if it works.

The members section is now active. The menu item now goes somewhere, and you can upload your character data using rpgoCharacterProfiler. The link for characterprofiler and the update form is available on the members screen as long as you are logged in.

mmm...i'd bring you pie if i could...