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.

[systutorials]

Cool thanks Ted, i've got the variables which is all good. Just with the placement I actually want to place it here:

http://i44.tinypic.com/sllegw.jpg

Do you know the name of the template I need to edit ?

[systutorials]

All good found it under postbit_legacy. Using the {vb:raw post.goodrank} variable works well. Thanks again

[systutorials]

actually I think I spoke to soon, i'm 3/4 of the way there
This is what it looks like now:
http://i44.tinypic.com/359y3vm.jpg
But helpful posts only displays 1 on the actual post that was helpful. It doesn't carry around with it the total amount of helpful posts the user has made. Is there another variable for this ?
It would be similar to the information you see when you click on the user and then click on about me and view the information "Helpful Postings - Rated Helpful 1 out of 1 times"

[systutorials]

found it, I used {vb:raw post.hagoodrank}
sorry for all the posts

[BlueCheri]

Installed.

Working fine.

Thanx and rgds

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by systutorials

found it, I used {vb:raw post.hagoodrank}
sorry for all the posts

Trying stuff on your own... trying again... You're my hero for the day no matter how many posts were made.

Let me know if there's anything else you need :up:

[SilverBoy]

Originally Posted by Ted S

You are correct.

We'll add this to the bug list but honestly as no one else has mentioned this since the 4.x version came out, it's not something you'll see added in until our next major update.

no problem, but could you please give me the template code to add it manually?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

no problem, but could you please give me the template code to add it manually?

The template was never ported from the 3.8 version, you'd have to convert it yourself.

<if condition="!$GLOBALS['FIRSTPOSTID'] AND $helpfulanswer[postid] != $GLOBALS['qrfirstpostid']">    
            <div style="padding:5px;">
            <table class="tborder" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
            <tr>
                <td class="alt1" style="padding:15px;font-weight"bold;text-align:center;">
        
                <phrase 1="$vboptions[bbtitle]" 2="$helpfulanswer[postid]">$vbphrase[helpfulanswer_mosthelp_post]</phrase>     
            
                </td>
            </tr>
            </table>
            </div>
        </if>

[SilverBoy]

Thanks Ted.

I suggest you in the next version to change the content of the block to display the post that most voted as helpful not just link to it.

[klaus]

Is there a variable I can use to display the total weight of a post after it got ranked up and down?

Example: 2 plus votes = Weight 2, 4 plus votes and 1 minus vote = weight 3, 6 minus votes weight = -6

To me it makes more sense to display the total weight of posts then how many plus and how many minus voted. Just give me the total as one number.

Thank you in advance and I love this product.