In Roster 1.7.2 the following works like a charm:

/gp export for the guild of your main character
Log off
Manually change the guild name in CharacterProfiler.lua to "Myguild"
Manually change the members to show only your characters and your friends. Rank 1 for all your characters, Rank 2 for my Brother's, Rank 3 for my cousin, etc...
Save
Upload to your own "Myguild" website

Why would I want to do that in Roster 2.0 ?
Because my friends and I are not always part of the same guild and the features for guilds are way more advanced than just displaying a character profile (e.g.: craft, keys, quests, bank).

When I try to do the same with Roster 2.0, after an upload I get the message:

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Error while parsing CharacterProfiler after 0 seconds
LUA parsing error. Are you sure this is a SavedVariables file?

Could it be because now Roster 2.0 correctly checks for the timestamp? :

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            ["timestamp"] = {
               ["Members"] = 1189204120,
               ["init"] = {
                  ["datakey"] = "eu:2.1.3:6898",
                  ["TimeStamp"] = 1189204120,
                  ["Date"] = "2007-09-07 23:28:40",
                  ["ServerTime"] = "00:27",
                  ["DateUTC"] = "2007-09-07 22:28:40",
               },
            },


P.S.: I have tried to upload my CharacterProfiler.lua without changing it and it works with my Main's guild, so the error only comes from modifying guild name in GP information.

Many thanks for your help

I think I found the answer to my question.

This is much more complicated than that and just changing a single name in the genuine guild list to one of my toons, and adding guild info to this toon gets me the same error message.

Roster 2.0 seems to cross-check every single info in the CP lua, which makes my old method far too complicated, even impossible to implement.

Roster 2.0 looks really really nice and I will keep an eye for further improvements/add-ons so I can leave 1.7.2 behind

Keep up the good work guys

You probably made a syntax error. "Are you sure this is a SavedVariables file" means it failed to parse the syntax.

I don't think it's syntax related
Only changing one entry of a guildemate such as

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["Tar"] = {
   ["Zone"] = "Shattrah",
   ["Class"] = "Warrior",
   ["Name"] = "Tar",
   ["LastOnline"] = "0:0:9:12",
   ["Level"] = 70,
   ["Rank"] = 5,
},

into one of my characters:

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["Proton"] = {
   ["Zone"] = "Shattrah",
   ["Class"] = "Warrior",
   ["Name"] = "Proton",
   ["LastOnline"] = "0:0:9:12",
   ["Level"] = 70,
   ["Rank"] = 5,
},

Makes the upload fail.
Either because the Timestamp contains some encrypted information or, more likely, the ["Character"] entry of Proton doesn't contain any guilde info.

But to be fair, this isn't the way we should use Roster, and I did expect some kind of security checking in Roster2 to stop people from uploading dodgy data into guild Rosters

Maybe this could lead to a simple add-on, which collects information from your characters, asks which is your main character and finaly asks which "Imaginary guild name" you would like them to be registered under.

Or simply, I should wait for Roster add-ons to be developped for the Realm section and just add names using the upload rules as it was intended

If all your friends are on the same server, just allow all from one server in the upload rules

In Upload Rules -> Character

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Name Server     Region
%    ServerName Region

Oh, and this has been moved to the beta forum

If you reject guild-level information, or don't use the officer pass when uploading, all characters will end up in the guildless-H or guildless-A guild, whichever is relevant.

Thanks Zanix, sorry for posting in the wrong section

If I don't upload any guild roster, but only upload my own characters as guildless, I get the following errors (Realm -> Members):

addons\memberslist\inc\memberslist.php
Warning line 497: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
lib\functions.lib.php
Roster Warning line 1168: UrlGrabber Error: Unable to grab URL ()
lib\xmlparse.class.php
Notice line 60: Undefined index: child

Edit: Yet, if I do a search on the members, I will get the list of uploaded Chars: http://www.duvillard.com/roster/index.php?p=search
(Clicking on each character, is all buggy, but I think that's due to corrupted CP info, I'll try to re-upload a clean CP tonight and keep you posted).

Ok !

If I have the following settings:
Upload Rules -> Character
% ServerName Region
Upload Rules -> Guilds
none

When I log directly onto the root folder of my roster: http://www.duvillard.com/roster/
And click any of the links, for example Guilds>Members or Guilds>Keys, then it tells me I have to finish installing it.
If I click any of the links Realms>Members or Realms>Guilds, then I get the errors as above.

However, if I click Guilds>Members, then select in the combo box at the top the second choice, then it display the members of that guild and I can go through any of the other menus without any problem.
It then also works nicely with Guildless-A characters.

This would come from the parameters p=guild-memberslist&guild=1 missing from the very first roster/index.php ?

Shouldn't index.php default itself to p=guild-memberslist and guild=1 if no default guild is found ?

Edit:
or to realm=DefaultServer if p=realm-memberslist-guild or p=realm-memberslist

Seems we need to allow % as a default guild in Roster

For this setup, you could add a guild pemission for Guildless-A or H, and make that default. But I think we need to do default guild different, probably with a normal config setting that pulls its options from the guild table.

PleegWat wrote:For this setup, you could add a guild pemission for Guildless-A or H, and make that default.

Modified and it works well with Guildless-A.
Many thanks for that