Add-On Releases - [AJAX] Helpful Answers - Allow users to rate individual posts

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.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Lester Wilson

Hello, great mod, installed

One question, i have many forum areas on my site, i'd like to take advanathe of the option to update multiple forums through the Bulk Forum Enabler located in the Helpful Answers Tab

However i cannot locate the tab. Can some one pointn me to the location of this tab? I dont see it on the forum management dialogue, or in the settings options for this mod.

Where is it?


Installation Instructions:


Step 3) Enable the system in any of your forums by visiting the forum options and scrolling to the end of the page.

Alternatively you can update multiple forums through the Bulk Forum Enabler located in the Helpful Answers Tab.(Required)

It's in the sidebar of your ACP, in it's own section.

[Lester Wilson]

One question, i have many forum areas on my site, i'd like to take advanathe of the option to update multiple forums through the Bulk Forum Enabler located in the Helpful Answers Tab

However i cannot locate the tab. Can some one pointn me to the location of this tab? I dont see it on the forum management dialogue, or in the settings options for this mod.

Originally Posted by Ted S

It's in the sidebar of your ACP, in it's own section.

OK, its not showing on my installation.

I've installed everything in the upload folder via ftp

Is there some other component that i need to install?

[Lester Wilson]

HI, just so that its clear as to what i'm seeing

I recorded the ACP and the tabs in this 1 min video

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Lester Wilson

HI, just so that its clear as to what i'm seeing

I recorded the ACP and the tabs in this 1 min video

Not loading for me... but a screencap of the sidebar will do just fine as well

[Lester Wilson]

OK I thought the vid would show more information

here is a screen capture of the side bar

[Ted S]

Hum... the group is called "Helpful Answers System" and should be there.

Can you double check that cpnav_helpfulanswers.xml ended up in your XML folder?

[Lester Wilson]

cpnav_helpfulanswers.xml was NOT in the correct location.

It's fixed and working now. Thank you for your support.

[bfdzio]

Anyone have any ideas on how to have posts rated above a certain number...be highlighted a different color? I figure just reverse the code on the collapsing and a few other things from there?

[bfdzio]

Originally Posted by bfdzio

Anyone have any ideas on how to have posts rated above a certain number...be highlighted a different color? I figure just reverse the code on the collapsing and a few other things from there?

nevermind, think I got it...10000x easier than I figured. Was going too far.

[Ted S]

Just a little FYI.... 1,000 posts on this thread as of today and 3 million plus logged votes [who knows how many more unlogged ones].

Glad to see the mod working for so many of you!

I've got a major new mod on the way but after that, updates coming!