Show Thread Enhancements - Week / Month Topic Nominations

Week / Month Topic Nominations

Acknowledgments:
This release would not have been possible without the existence of the former ?Topic Nominations? by J98680B2423E (Data) and "Post Thank You" by Abe1, which provided the mod?s core structure. A nice set of button and awards images have also been provided by princeedward. You can view screenshots at the original mod's thread: VB 3.7 Topic Nominations

What is Topic Of The Week/Fortnight/Month?
It adds a "Topic Of The Week/Month" nomination system for your community.
Topic of the Week/Month is a contest that select posts on which your community can nominate as the best and then discuss them during the course of the selected week/fortnight /month. Any listed topic (post, thread) is eligible for the Topic of the Week/Fortnight /Month selection. This mod should also work in VB 3.7.x, but it has only been tested in VB 3.8.

Features of New 2.0 Version:

• 50+ bugs fixed & 30+ phrases changed for clarification.
• Fixed ajax functionality for adding & removing nominations.
• 16 settings to determine which users can nominate and which posts can be nominated.
• Documented this mod?s limitations & changelog in the 2nd post.
• Fixed Hall of Fame to to correctly display most awarded members and topic winners from the past 3 contests (3 awards per contest).
• Added new setting, max # of nominations user can receive, to prevent a poll being dominated by a single user.
• Added new function to recount # of current nominations received and past awards.
• Added new function to manually finalize the current contest, close the old poll thread, and create a new poll thread.
• An option to enable blog nominations is available and should work (coded by Data), but is not supported (I do not have VB Blog).
• You must have 3 VB default hooks in the postbit template: see troubleshooting below for details. If you ask for help with a problem, you must state in your post if you have reverted ALL nomination templates and read the troubleshooting tips in the 2nd post. If you haven?t, do so otherwise you will be ignored & can debug it yourself.

Installation instructions:

1. Upload the content of the "upload" folder into your forum root directory
2. Import the "product_nominate_topic.xml" product via your ACP:
   ACP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Product -> Add/Import Product (Allow overwrite for updating)
3. For upgrades only, REVERT ALL nominate_topic templates in ACP -> ?Find Updated Templates? or top FYI section of Control Panel. This mod will work only if ALL templates are reverted since major changes were done to them. Reapply custom phrasing to changed phrases as needed.
4. Adjust & save the mod settings to your preference in ACP -> VB Options. It is strongly recommended that you use the default, preset options.
   Specify the Forum ID that will receive nomination threads and the Forum ID's for which posts can be nominated. Also specify the User ID of the nomination thread owner.
5. For new installs only, start a new nomination poll at:
   ACP side menu -> Nominate Topic -> Special Actions -> Create New Poll Thread
6. Read the 2nd post for Troubleshooting Tips & Mod Limitations and the 3rd post for specific features of this mod.

Version History:
2.0.0: Initial Release.
2.0.2: Fixed table column bug.

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Thanks to everyone who nominated this mod for October, 2009 You can vote for this mod at: this thread.

[Cableguy69]

I've set up a brand new test board with no mods and it still doesn't show, I've followed the read me, word for word I don't know what the problem is.

[crkgb]

Everything seemed to work flawless till no. Under the first post I have that informational table which says that 4 people votes. But it only displays 3 users. How is it possible.? In the poll thread it also displays "4".

[chick]

vbboarder, I had to uninstall this completely and go back to the previous version which I now have working 100% properly now. Thank you for this mod.

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by crkgb

Everything seemed to work flawless till no. Under the first post I have that informational table which says that 4 people votes. But it only displays 3 users. How is it possible.? In the poll thread it also displays "4".

A username may not show if that user is allowed to make his online status invisible.

[chick]

My online status is always hidden, so is my smod and another admin but it shows up... err is that just because I can view invisible members? My members are not allowed to be invisible.

[Cableguy69]

VBBoarder any chance you can help me? I set up the mod as per the read me on my board, but icons buttons ect were not showing, so I set up a test board brand new install no other mods and I get the same results.

I've double checked all images to make sure everything has gone into the correct directories ect, but still no luck.

As you can see from the image the TOTW Award shows in the post bit, I can generate polls ect but because threads cannot be nominated, there are no poll options.

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by chick

My online status is always hidden, so is my smod and another admin but it shows up... err is that just because I can view invisible members? My members are not allowed to be invisible.

Yep, that's why.

[vbboarder]

@Cableguy69: I only have time to help in this thread. Review the troubleshooting tips again and check the actual source code of your showthread pages - search for the nominate_topic image to verify if: 1. the <img> tag was inserted by the plugin, and 2. the url of the image is correct (image will not show if url is not correct).

[Cableguy69]

OK now were getting somewhere, the <img> url hasn't been inserted into the showthread so were should it be placed?

and how should it appear?

Should it go after this to get it to appear on the right of the quick reply button?

		<tr>
			<td class="tcat" colspan="2">
				<if condition="$show['quickreply_collapse']"><a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('quickreply');"><img id="collapseimg_quickreply" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$vbcollapse[collapseimg_quickreply].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></if>
				$vbphrase[quick_reply]
			</td>
		</tr>

[grey_goose]

can someone paste the nomination button/link code? i can't make them appear in postbit_legacy, and have nothing to go off of...