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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.

[matthewhotdude]

Display nominated post icon on nominated posts 
Specify the ID of the nominated post icon:
An icon "images/icons/nominate/nominated_star.png" has been supplied with this mod. You may add it to your system via 'ACP -> Post Icons -> Add new post icon' and report the icon's ID in here.  
Error:
1 
Display award winner icon on award winner posts 
Specify the ID of the award winner icon:
An icon "images/icons/nominate/award_star.png" has been supplied with this mod. You may add it to your system via 'ACP -> Post Icons -> Add new post icon' and report the icon's ID in here.

You have them set up wrong anyway, read it again, it's supposed to just be a number not a URL

[MaR?]

Your are right... but... how can I see the ID of a ICON? Thanks!

[matthewhotdude]

Click on the edit button for the icon, and it will be at the top

[MaR?]

Matt THANK YOU SO MUCH... now is working great.

Excelent mod!!!!!

[MaR?]

Edit:

How can I made the "nominated_post_0.gif" be inside first post like priceedwar did???

[matthewhotdude]

Originally Posted by MaR?

Edit:

How can I made the "nominated_post_0.gif" be inside first post like priceedwar did???

Mine is like that

Goto

Plugin manager

Scrool down to Topic Nomination

postbit_display_start Click edit

Find

eval('$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_left]

Replace with

eval('$template_hook[postbit_messagearea_start]

[MaR?]

THANKS AGAIN!!!

A suggestion:

When you setup the post icons, any user can use those, and in this way, those post icon for "the nomination status" loose their raison d'être.

I hope you can understand what im talking about.

[princeedward]

Originally Posted by MaR?

Nice mod!!!!!!!!.... Im testing!

Pinceedward can you please put the .psd files for the non-english forums? THANKS A LOT!!!!

hi...i'm not using PSD on that images...other easy software for me to use...not quite perfect like PSD but its okay.

...here's your request...

Attachment 104762Attachment 104763Attachment 104764Attachment 104765


enjoy and hope you like it..

best regards

:up:

[MaR?]

GREAT!!! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!!!!!!!... all spanish people will thank you!!!!!!

[mitch84]

hi, error when I want delete a topic

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM nominate_topic WHERE postid='99801' AND is_blog='0' ORDER BY username;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'is_blog' in 'where clause'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Saturday, September 26th 2009 @ 08:29:25 PM
Error Date : Saturday, September 26th 2009 @ 08:29:25 PM
Script : http://www.XXX/inlinemod.php?do=dode...hreadids=16662
Referrer : http://www.XXX/inlinemod.php?forumid=126
IP Address : XXX
Username : XXX
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.81-log