Add-On Releases - [AJAX] Helpful Answers - Allow users to rate individual posts

Helpful Answers has been used to record over 6 MILLION times on more than 2,000 forums. If you're not using HA your users are looking for it!

Every day your users contribute hundreds if not thousands of posts making it hard for new members and guests to separate out the best answers from those that are less helpful. The Helpful Answers System offers your members a quick way to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the value of each post.

Designed to be flexible, HA has over 30 configurable settings:

• Use image or text ratings AJAX or traditional links.
• Offer yes/no or scaled 1-10 point ranking.
• Turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
• Decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
• Audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
• Ban specific members from using the system.
• Customize the message shown after a post is rated.
• Show a page with the top helpful posts.
• Show rating stats on a user's profile.
• Hide posts that rate "too low"
• Template driven so you can customize it all for your forum.

For advanced users template conditionals and variables let you further extend the functionality to color highlight good or bad posts, include ratings in user?s profiles and much more.

Modification Installation [Must Read]:

Step 1: Upload the addon files found in the upload/ folder to your forum directory
Step 2: Install the plugin through your vB Administration area
Step 3: Configure settings & enable the mod in individual forums

You must configure settings & enable forums before voting will show up.
Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):

By default this addon will pass basic rating data (positive or negative) to a 3rd party site for statistical purposes. Only the most basic data is captured (the vote and your site name) and no user information or specific forum details are logged, not even an IP address. You can disable this through the admin.

Mod Philosophy -- Drive Your Own Success:

All of my mods are inspired by my work in digital marketing and are designed to drive registrations, interaction or other engagement activities the core platform does not address.

Each is designed to fit a general need by providing a starting point but it's on you to decide how to make things work to their best possible outcome. Feel free to suggest what you'd like to see next but don't wait to have what everyone else has; figure out what your forum needs and customize away.

[SurfTalk]

Oops, I'd mixed up my .php files on the upload! But now I have a different problem, and this time I think I have uploaded the correct files! Now when a post is rated I get the following: "This post has been ranked $post[avgrank] out of 10 with $post[totalrank] votes" Can anyone advise why I'm not getting the ranking data displayed?

[Alien]

I wanted to follow up with a couple of bug reports:

1) In template "helpful_answers_top", replace:

<title>{vb:phrase helpfulanswer_mosthelpful} -- {vb:phrase vboptions.bbtitle}</title>

With:

<title>{vb:phrase helpfulanswer_mosthelpful} -- {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</title>

2) Find:

{vb:raw headinclude}

Add after:

{vb:raw headinclude_bottom}

3) Suggestion: I think the pagenav at the bottom of the same template above looks a bit better with spacing around it. Maybe replace with this:

<vb:if condition="$pagenav">
                        <br />
			<div id="pagination_bottom">
			    {vb:raw pagenav}
			</div>
                        <br /><br />
			</vb:if>

4) I also noticed that all sorting works perfectly on helpfulanswers.php EXCEPT the Average Rating column, which is incorrect in either ascending or descending order.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Alien

I wanted to follow up with a couple of bug reports:

1) In template "helpful_answers_top", replace:

<title>{vb:phrase helpfulanswer_mosthelpful} -- {vb:phrase vboptions.bbtitle}</title>

With:

<title>{vb:phrase helpfulanswer_mosthelpful} -- {vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle}</title>

2) Find:

{vb:raw headinclude}

Add after:

{vb:raw headinclude_bottom}

3) Suggestion: I think the pagenav at the bottom of the same template above looks a bit better with spacing around it. Maybe replace with this:

<vb:if condition="$pagenav">
                        <br />
            <div id="pagination_bottom">
                {vb:raw pagenav}
            </div>
                        <br /><br />
            </vb:if>

4) I also noticed that all sorting works perfectly on helpfulanswers.php EXCEPT the Average Rating column, which is incorrect in either ascending or descending order.

Thanks! All of these will be addressed in the next bug fix.

[struff]

Originally Posted by Ted S

What other modifications are you using? What are you settings for this modification?

I am using the default settings for this mod.

Here are the others I am using:

Add Ignore User To Postbit Dropdown
Display reputation comments given
Display Unread Posts and Reputation
EveryWhere Sidebar
Extended reputation display
Guest Tracking
Members who have Visited
Miserable Users
Mobile Style Options
My Threads & My Posts
Separate Sticky and Normal Threads
SevenSkins TopPosters
SevenSkins TopReputation
SK Mark Thread as Read
vBH - Add new tabs 1.2
Who Has Read a Thread

Thanks.

[vivamexico55]

I sent 10 bucks your way, good job on this, installing now, I'll donate more in later updates =)

[vivamexico55]

Quick question, the default Thumbs Up image has a size of 11 x 20 pixels, where do I change this? I replaced the graphic with a custom larger one, but it looks squished to 11 pixels.

[vivamexico55]

Possible bug: When I give myself a thumbs up (after allowing this in the settings), I get:

%1$s members found this post helpful

edit: I'm not sure what's wrong but it seems it's not saving my choice on the Rating Display (Select how the rating options should be shown.)

I choose images and it only shows the "Yes" text... this seems to modify whether the bug of %1$s shows or not. In some options it works as intended.

edit again: On further review, the problems seem to originate when I change the "Allow negative responses" setting to "No".

[Alien]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

Quick question, the default Thumbs Up image has a size of 11 x 20 pixels, where do I change this? I replaced the graphic with a custom larger one, but it looks squished to 11 pixels.

AdminCP / Plugins & Products / Helpful Answers / postbit_display_complete

The images/sizes are hard-coded in there. Hopefully that will be more customizable in a later release.

[vivamexico55]

Originally Posted by Alien

AdminCP / Plugins & Products / Helpful Answers / postbit_display_complete

The images/sizes are hard-coded in there. Hopefully that will be more customizable in a later release.

I'd have never thought to look in there, thanks so much! =)

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

I sent 10 bucks your way, good job on this, installing now, I'll donate more in later updates =)

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Thanks!