We've recently started using the Guild Vault addon to keep track of our vault inventories and item movements as additional security.

The problem is that the guild vault log is only displaying the item number, not the name itself.

Is this working as intended? Or is there some way I can get it to display the item name?

Intended, no
The way it currently works, yes

The vault addon only know what items it has "seen" meaning it has to have existed in the vault
The log will display the item number for items it hasn't "seen" yet
We eventually want to get item data from the armory, that may show up in Roster 2.1

Ok, thank you

Wait.

Open /roster/addons/vault/guild/index.php - goto line 127
You'll find this as a code fragment :

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            }
         }
      }
   }

   return $item_id;
}


Make it look like this (replace the statement return $item_id;):

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   // These lines are new
   switch($roster->config['locale']):
   case "frFR":
      $wowhead_language = "fr";
      break;
   case "deDE":
      $wowhead_language = "de";
      break;
   case "esES":
      $wowhead_language = "es";
      break;
   default:
      $wowhead_language = "www";
      endswitch;               
      
   return '<a href="http://'.$wowhead_language.'.wowhead.com/?item='.$id.'" target="_blank">'.$id.'</a>';


What does this do for you ?
It still show the item ID's - correct - but they became links to a site that actually works great the last couple of months : wowhead.com
They have the enUS, frFR, deDE and esES languages item details - even the Russians could use it.
wowhead is fast & good (using it even in own forum ).

I'm not taking out / parsing the item ID - that would be a WoWRoster 2.1 solution. A local cache system should be used.
Pulling in all the item details from the ID's every time you watch these Vault log pages would really hit the wowhead server - they (wowhead.com) wouldn't like that.
You could say : why not converting when uploading the Vault info ? Answer : then the Items names would be hard coded in your the database, and again, when you have 6 pages and many items that left your Vault, wowhead.com would be smacked again with requests. Updating would also be more error-prone.

What you have now is a "click" solution : click on the ID, and you will be brought to the item description page in your roster language.

See it in action here : http://www.papy-team.fr/roster/index.ph ... ault&a=g:1 (switch to your own language if you want to )
This is of course a nifty patch - this kind of handling should be surfaced - maybe it's even better to use the armory for it.
Local caching of item ID's, Tooltip and other related info should be stored on YOUR site - note that these items do not necessarily belong to you or one of your mates, they might have left your Guild already. - This database table will grow to the size of all know items in WoW (WoW !!).
I use this for a couple of month now - it's ok as a simple patch.

Some one else manged to implement this ?
Works ? To difficult ? Comments ?