Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] vBNominate v1 (vB4) [AJAX]

vBNominate is an advanced nomination system. Several different types of nominations are available and it is fully automated to keep your users engaged and interested in your communities activity while keeping maintenance down.

Uses
As admin you will be able to create several different types of nominations. The nominations can either end with the top nominated items winning or a separate poll will automatically be created with the top items.

Once the poll is completed the nomination is updated automatically with the results. No manual intervention is needed on your part! You can specify the type of nomination to be run or you can let it run on several different types of items like threads, polls, blogs, etc.

The nominations system will make it easy for users to have competitions for the best post, thread and more while browsing the forum. No need to go to a special page to vote, all voting can be done for any post from any thread via AJAX.

Instructions
Here are some basics on how to get the nominations started.
1) Make sure you modify the usergroups that will be allowed to nominate.
ACP->Usergroups->UserGroup Manager
2) Create a rotating nomination
ACP->DBTech - vBNominate-> Create Rotating
An example, if you want a weekly Thread nomination, set Type to Thread, Cycle to Weekly, End Date way far in the future, like Dec 31 2058. After you submit new Nomination go to step 3.
3) Edit new Inactive Nomination
ACP->DBTech - vBNominate-> Current Nominations
You should now have an inactive nomination. Edit it if you need to make any changes then set it to active.

You should now have a Nomination link in your postbit. At the end of the week it will automatically end and start a new one on the day you specified.

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Complete Feature List

Lite

• Forumhome block to display latest completed nominations and current running nominations
• Ajax Nominations for seamless use
• Nomination Types
  • Thread
  • Post
  • Signature
  • Blog
  • Blog Comment
  • Avatar
  • All Previous
• Delete individual Nomination votes
• View/Edit/Delete Nominations
• Nomination Administration
  • Create Rotating Nominations (Automatically created on schedule)
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
    • Auto Score - Most nominated will win
    • Poll Results - Most nominated will be added to a timed poll
    • Start Date
    • End Date
    • Number of Finalists
    • Number of Winners
    • Winning postbit image
    • Nomination Type
• Per Usergroup
  • Can Nominate

Pro

• CMS Widget scrolls display of latest completed nominations
• Forum sidebar block scrolls display of latest completed nominations
• Ability to display winner postbit images
• Create One Time Nomination
  • Auto Score - Most nominated will win
  • Poll Results - Most nominated will be added to a timed poll
  • Start Date
  • End Date
  • Number of Finalists
  • Number of Winners
  • Winning postbit image
  • Nomination Type

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[iDHKHCM]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I just added some instructions to the description, let me know if you did all that and still don't have a nomination link.

Dylan

thanks its working now

[Nirjonadda]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

What are you doing when that error happens?

Dylan

I tried to install this addon
when install complete i get database error in admin panel
Adminpanel database error after install.
Does anyone know what went wrong ?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by tele955848

Hallo Dylan,

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/854/buttonu.jpg/

Find not a button or link where I can click on Nominate?
And here I Deisen way to thank you for your addons, most of you.
Especially for beginners like me they are easy to install up to nominate ^ ^

Did you follow the instructions up top that I added? If you did and are still not seeing the nominate option I'd need a temporary admin account to see what's wrong.

Dylan

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Nirjonadda

I tried to install this addon
when install complete i get database error in admin panel
Adminpanel database error after install.
Does anyone know what went wrong ?

Did you get any errors during the installation? I haven't seen this reported before.
If you want you can give me a temp admin account and I'll install it and see what's going on. Hard to troubleshoot with just an empty sql error.

Dylan

[iDHKHCM]

what about making it display who has nominated as a feature like the thanks and no thanks mod

[Nirjonadda]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Did you get any errors during the installation? I haven't seen this reported before.
If you want you can give me a temp admin account and I'll install it and see what's going on. Hard to troubleshoot with just an empty sql error.

Dylan

when install complete i get database error in admin panel

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what's going on? How i can fix this problem?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Nirjonadda

when install complete i get database error in admin panel

Attachment 136862

what's going on? How i can fix this problem?

I'm not sure without seeing what the error is. If it was a database error it should of emailed the technical contact what the exact error was. Did you get that email? If you did post it so I can see what the cause is.

Dylan

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by iDHKHCM

what about making it display who has nominated as a feature like the thanks and no thanks mod

I was thinking about doing that but I thought about how large that could get heh. Imagine you have 8 or so nominations running that involve thread/posts/users/avatars/signatures. As well as the block to display that I'd worry about the database hit. That said, I'll add it to our feature request list and look at adding it in the next version with the ability to disable it. I guess if you only run a couple nominations and have extra sql power to spare it would be a nice feature

Dylan

[iDHKHCM]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I was thinking about doing that but I thought about how large that could get heh. Imagine you have 8 or so nominations running that involve thread/posts/users/avatars/signatures. As well as the block to display that I'd worry about the database hit. That said, I'll add it to our feature request list and look at adding it in the next version with the ability to disable it. I guess if you only run a couple nominations and have extra sql power to spare it would be a nice feature

Dylan

thanks that would be great. and what about after you nominate a thread instead of taking the button away make it stay but when you click it have it say you already nominated a thread or something like that...people keep thinking its messed up asking where the button went haha

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by iDHKHCM

thanks that would be great. and what about after you nominate a thread instead of taking the button away make it stay but when you click it have it say you already nominated a thread or something like that...people keep thinking its messed up asking where the button went haha

Yeah, I was already thinking about adding that. Been asking a lot why it's not working when in reality there were just no active nominations for that user

Only problem is users wont know if there is a new nomination available or not. Since the rotating title is the same they wont know if it's a new one or the one they already voted on. Maybe a color difference on the link and popup text.

Dylan