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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.

[Cedric_FP]

Hi,

I am looking to do 2 things:

1: Set the number of official winners to just 1 per contest.
2: Remove the "Awarded" image from postbit for previous winners.

How may I do this?

Thanks for your help!

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by Cedric_FP

1: Set the number of official winners to just 1 per contest.
2: Remove the "Awarded" image from postbit for previous winners.

These are good options to include +1 :up:

[alehawk]

How can I put the nominate button in every thread?
I mean I can now butwhen the user clicks the button it nominates the thread, I want to have the nominate button in every thread but, when the user clicks que nominate button it will nominate the whole post not a thingle thread... can that be done?
Tnx!

[robdawg]

Originally Posted by dai-kun

It happens to me to, if you do mysqladmin proc, it shows that it's trying to add things to the users and posts table which will take a very long time if you have very large tables. I suggest you shutdown your board from members and run it. It takes a long time (for me took 45 mins and i had to import it a couple times since the script timed out on me).

I also suggest that vbboarder adds a warning for members with large forums, telling them that it will cause downtime since tables will be locked waiting for the fields to be added.

Yeah I am experiencing the same problem.

Need to be careful if you have A LOT of posts in your forum. I am letting it ride right now and will post an update once it is done.

Hopefully it does not crash MySQL.

**** EDIT ****

Well it seemed to install fine. However, it does seem to spike the CPU/MySQL usage whenever you hit the Hall of Fame or do any activity with this plugin.

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by robdawg

Yeah I am experiencing the same problem.

Need to be careful if you have A LOT of posts in your forum. I am letting it ride right now and will post an update once it is done.

Hopefully it does not crash MySQL.

**** EDIT ****

Well it seemed to install fine. However, it does seem to spike the CPU/MySQL usage whenever you hit the Hall of Fame or do any activity with this plugin.

Should be OK, if you install during off-peak times.

Or, simply turn off your forums and install (that is the safest way!). There is an option to do this, as you might recall, but most people do not do it

[chick]

I upgrade last night from 1.6.3 version to this one 2.0.2 and now things are messed up... nominations are not holding and when I go back and look at the nominated topic it is not nominated... and it does not send it to the poll.

I knew I should not have upgraded... I always have problems.

Also there were no templates to revert anywhere. I went over everything.

What should I do?

also when I look at nominate_topic.php?do=shownominationawardswinners page there are no longer any winners and there were 2 yesterday.

[vbboarder]

@chick: you probably upgraded wrong because EVERY template was changed so every template starting with 'nominate_topic' needs to be reverted. If you did not edit any templates, then no templates need reverting. As stated in instruction #3:

This mod will work only if ALL templates are reverted since major changes were done to them.

[chick]

Yes I never touched the templates so there were none to revert.

What should I do? I reinstalled again and overwrote everything, checked all settings etc...

now.....

NOMINATE doesn't work and throws a pop-up window javascript error in IE7 which I have never seen before.
This pages doesn't work /nominate_topic.php?do=findallnominations (nothing there)
This page doesn't work nominate_topic.php?do=shownominationawardswinners (I had 2 previous winners)

I have to get this to work, should I uninstall completely and lose everything I have thus far the do a fresh install?????

Can I go back to 1.63 if I overwrite everthing?????

Its funny because I have your version 1.63 working 100% everything works on another site and I don't dare touch it.

[Cableguy69]

Right I've read most of this thread, but I'm still not able to see any buttons/images ect, I've uploaded the images into my custom skin, but to no avail.



That is from the correct file path but it does not show up in the forum.

Below is a screen shot of what I see, I just don't see any buttons, great mod btw I hope I can get it working as it would be a great feature for my forum.

[matthewhotdude]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

Well, why don't you post exactly what your template had before and after, instead of a short message with no information.

It is impossible to help you if you don't provide any information.

Oh sorry!

Before nominate_topic_stamps_box had this in it

<div id="nominate_topic_stamps_box_$post[postid]">$nominate_topic_stamps_box</div>

When I change to

this

</td>
<td>
<div id="nominate_topic_stamps_box_$post[postid]">
$nominate_topic_stamps_box
</div>
</td>

this happenes (See screen shot)