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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.

[chick]

Looking good so far. I have it working on blogs (latest version) and on postbit legacy, 3.8.4... hopefully it will auto generate on the first of the month, I have it set for monthly. Will report back on 10/1/09.

[nascartr]

Originally Posted by chick

Looking good so far. I have it working on blogs (latest version) and on postbit legacy, 3.8.4... hopefully it will auto generate on the first of the month, I have it set for monthly. Will report back on 10/1/09.

Same here, everything looks and works great...but wonder if things will go right at the beginning of October...

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by chick

Looking good so far. I have it working on blogs (latest version) and on postbit legacy, 3.8.4... hopefully it will auto generate on the first of the month, I have it set for monthly. Will report back on 10/1/09.

Thanks for confirming that it works with VB Blogs & postbit_legacy. Please click "Installed" to show your support & receive support

[matthewhotdude]

Just wondering, if you have joint nominations, do both nominations recieve the award, Also when someone nominates a thread should the poll be open for everyone to vote in, or are they supposed to nominate the thread also?

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

Just wondering, if you have joint nominations, do both nominations recieve the award, Also when someone nominates a thread should the poll be open for everyone to vote in, or are they supposed to nominate the thread also?

If you're talking about nominations ties, this mod accounts for that up to 3 winners. If you want to limit users/ usergroups able to receive nominations and users/ usergroups able to give nominations, there are settings for that in VB Options > Topic Nominations.

[matthewhotdude]

Something strange has happened!!

I just went to chek the topic of the month thread and the poll seems to have well gone!

All the threads are still marked as nominated tho, but nothing it appearing in the poll!!

And just test nominated another post and it didnt come up in the poll

Also, if someone nominates a topic, where it says "Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 20. This poll is closed"

The number 20 will go up, but the poll will still be empty

[vbboarder]

First, make sure you are looking at the right thread/poll (ie: the most recent one vs. an older one). If so, you can refresh the poll by going to: ACP > Nominate Topic > Refresh Poll Thread.
If this ever happens again, you should set your Topic Nominations options to the default settings in the xml; see the bottom of the xml file and look for values between <defaultvalue> tags (reinstalling the xml will not reset the option values).

[matthewhotdude]

I tried the refresh, nothing happened will try to set the default options...If I can...where do I find the xml file?

Also could it be becuse there are more that 10 threads nominated?

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by nascartr

Same here, everything looks and works great...but wonder if things will go right at the beginning of October...

I made an effort to make the automatic & manual contest finalizations more reliable & intuitive than the previous versions. I don't foresee any problems, but nothing is bug-free....

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

I tried the refresh, nothing happened will try to set the default options...If I can...where do I find the xml file?

Also could it be becuse there are more that 10 threads nominated?

The xml is the file that you used to install this mod. The settings in VB Options should correspond to those listed in the xml file in the same order as the xml's displayorder attribute. It may take some time to do this if you're not used to reading xml files.