Version: 2.4.2, by Ted S
Developer Last Online: Nov 2020
Category: Add-On Releases -
Version: 4.x.x
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Released: 01-15-2010
Last Update: 08-11-2012
Installs: 592
DB Changes Uses Plugins Template Edits
Additional Files
No support by the author.
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.
Hopefully someone can help me with something that's been driving me INSANE!
Basically I use this just as a "like" function (that also adds to reputation) and I eventually achieved the desired effect after a bit of template tinkering... it's just the "plus" button with the number of ratings to the right of it, looks the same whether you've rated the post or not, but is clickable when you can and not otherwise. Everything is working as I wanted EXCEPT for one tiny, endlessly irritating thing.
For the life of me, I can't figure out how to show the "plus" graphic on my own post, next to the rating. That is, when the member who makes the post looks at his own post, which has been rated, it's just the number. No graphic. For anyone else looking at his post, the graphic is there. I know WHY this is: it's because the code for displaying it is built into the "can rate" condition of the mod, and I've added a separate if condition in the template to display it when the post has been rated (helpfulanswerid), but I can't get it to display for "if this is my own post"... if you see what I mean.
I'm probably being really thick. Is there a standard vb conditional for "if this is my post"? That would sort it :/
Why not just wrap the voting blocks in an if/else statement... Show the current votes after the vote option for everyone and for you (the user) just show the plus and vote count
HA members, please welcome TheLastSuperman to the HA development and support efforts. TheLastSuperman has offered to step in and provide support and fixes. I do plan some significant updates later this year to add in many of the most requested features so keep your eye out for updates!
Basically I use this just as a "like" function (that also adds to reputation) and I eventually achieved the desired effect after a bit of template tinkering... it's just the "plus" button with the number of ratings to the right of it, looks the same whether you've rated the post or not, but is clickable when you can and not otherwise. Everything is working as I wanted EXCEPT for one tiny, endlessly irritating thing.
That's the way I'd like it to function - can you let me know what changes you've made to get this working?
HA members, please welcome TheLastSuperman to the HA development and support efforts. TheLastSuperman has offered to step in and provide support and fixes. I do plan some significant updates later this year to add in many of the most requested features so keep your eye out for updates!
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Originally Posted by CvP
Welcome
This means we will get "who rated" and rating removal options. yay!
Hey everyone . A Quick note to say I won't have time available to add in new features, only a update if required, all my other time will be spent on support for the modification until Ted has more free time available .
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Originally Posted by Bundle
Hello,
Hopefully someone can help me with something that's been driving me INSANE!
Basically I use this just as a "like" function (that also adds to reputation) and I eventually achieved the desired effect after a bit of template tinkering... it's just the "plus" button with the number of ratings to the right of it, looks the same whether you've rated the post or not, but is clickable when you can and not otherwise. Everything is working as I wanted EXCEPT for one tiny, endlessly irritating thing.
For the life of me, I can't figure out how to show the "plus" graphic on my own post, next to the rating. That is, when the member who makes the post looks at his own post, which has been rated, it's just the number. No graphic. For anyone else looking at his post, the graphic is there. I know WHY this is: it's because the code for displaying it is built into the "can rate" condition of the mod, and I've added a separate if condition in the template to display it when the post has been rated (helpfulanswerid), but I can't get it to display for "if this is my own post"... if you see what I mean.
I'm probably being really thick. Is there a standard vb conditional for "if this is my post"? That would sort it :/
Try something along the lines of:
Code:
<vb:if condition="$post['userid'] == $bbuserinfo['userid']"> Do this or show this code etc etc </vb:if>
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Originally Posted by kersti
That's the way I'd like it to function - can you let me know what changes you've made to get this working?
Let's see how Bundle replies and if it works we'll list some alternate instructions on how to customize the modification to work like that for you and other members .
Is the latest version integrated to VBCredits. There was a previous link which no longer working.
I went back a few pages and used the search, my wife says I'm blind however please post that link or link to the post in question. If there's not a modified version released in this thread by Ted then there is not an integrated version out atm.
Edit: Now this is listed in the 3.8 version of this modification, see the mod description:
I went back a few pages and used the search, my wife says I'm blind however please post that link or link to the post in question. If there's not a modified version released in this thread by Ted then there is not an integrated version out atm.
Edit: Now this is listed in the 3.8 version of this modification, see the mod description:
[AJAX] Helpful Answers - Allow users to rate individual posts Details »»
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DB Changes 
No support by the author.
01-18-2011, 03:28 AM
. A Quick note to say I won't have time available to add in new features, only a update if required, all my other time will be spent on support for the modification until Ted has more free time available 
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