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.

[juzz86]

Originally Posted by systutorials

All good found it under postbit_legacy. Using the {vb:raw post.goodrank} variable works well. Thanks again

Originally Posted by systutorials

found it, I used {vb:raw post.hagoodrank}
sorry for all the posts

Originally Posted by Ted S

post.totalrank is a post variable so it's not strange that it only shows what that post got

If you scroll back to the first page of the mod there's a list of accessible variables with brief descriptions. I don't recall them all off hand but if I had any common sense when making this version it would have been post.hatotalrank

Ted, hi from Australia.

Mate I have been using your plugin for a while now, with great results. I scoured the thread time and time again going over the posts of those who've tried to do this before me, as I'm having the same trouble.

I am attempting to add a 'good' tally to the postbit. Getting it into place and stuff is fine, but I cannot for the life of me seem to find the correct variable to put here.

Here's the postbit:



And here's the template source (I have this stacked under the 'thanks' hack postbit template):

<vb:if condition="$post['userid']">
    <vb:if condition="$post['post_thanks_thanked_times'] == 1">
        <dd style="white-space:nowrap; display:inline; float: {vb:stylevar left};">{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_time_post}</dd>
    <vb:elseif condition="$post['post_thanks_thanked_posts'] == 1" />
        <dd style="white-space:nowrap; display:inline; float: {vb:stylevar left};">{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_times_post, {vb:raw post.post_thanks_thanked_times_formatted}}</dd>
    <vb:else />
        <dd style="white-space:nowrap; display:inline; float: {vb:stylevar left};">{vb:rawphrase post_thanks_times_posts, {vb:raw post.post_thanks_thanked_times_formatted}}</dd><br>
        <dd style="white-space:nowrap; display:inline; float: {vb:stylevar left};">Helped {vb:raw post.hagoodrank} Times</dd>
    </vb:if>
</vb:if>

Doesn't seem to matter which variable I use, 'hagoodrank', 'hatotalrank', 'totalrank', 'goodrank', you name it - I just can't seem to find the user's global tally of 'good' votes.

I didn't really want to trouble you with it, especially as it's technically an unsupported mod, but mate I am just about out of options. I quoted the bloke above who got it working with post.hagoodrank - that isn't working for me.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Justin

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by juzz86

Mate I have been using your plugin for a while now, with great results. I scoured the thread time and time again going over the posts of those who've tried to do this before me, as I'm having the same trouble.

I am attempting to add a 'good' tally to the postbit. Getting it into place and stuff is fine, but I cannot for the life of me seem to find the correct variable to put here.

You just had to go there and open Pandora's box...

So it looks like the variables were setup right (post.hagoodrank & post.hatotalrank), but the routine for updating votes was completed bugged up... results were always 0 because results were never properly saved.

I've fixed that, updating upload/helpfulanswers.php

Also found another bug in switching back & forth in voting types and templates, fixed that in the xml file.

And finally added a resync routine to get all the old votes from members updated, so you don't have zeros on people with vote history, also the xml file.

Note: This is a lightly tried update from my working-version code with whatever else I've done since 2.4.2 so please proceed with caution.

[juzz86]

Originally Posted by Ted S

You just had to go there and open Pandora's box...

So it looks like the variables were setup right (post.hagoodrank & post.hatotalrank), but the routine for updating votes was completed bugged up... results were always 0 because results were never properly saved.

I've fixed that, updating upload/helpfulanswers.php

Also found another bug in switching back & forth in voting types and templates, fixed that in the xml file.

And finally added a resync routine to get all the old votes from members updated, so you don't have zeros on people with vote history, also the xml file.

Note: This is a lightly tried update from my working-version code with whatever else I've done since 2.4.2 so please proceed with caution.

You Sir, are a champion. If you could see the parallels with 'opening Pandora's box' and my life yesterday, you would be laughing about as much as I am now :up:

Truly appreciative of your efforts and quick fix mate - thankyou. I will have a go at this tonight after work and report back my findings. Many thanks again for all your efforts If you ever find yourself in my neck of the woods, your first beers are on me :up:

[Ted S]

Now that's a damn good offer. Should I ever make it to yourside of the world, expect a PM...

Let me know how the update goes.

[juzz86]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Now that's a damn good offer. Should I ever make it to yourside of the world, expect a PM...

Let me know how the update goes.

You're on!

Just reporting back mate, 2.5.0 takes care of that and sorts it beautifully. Tally now reflects the helpfulanswers.php page, and is updating on refresh.

Thanks again mate.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by juzz86

You're on!

Just reporting back mate, 2.5.0 takes care of that and sorts it beautifully. Tally now reflects the helpfulanswers.php page, and is updating on refresh.

Thanks again mate.

Fantastic!

[yukirina]

This mod is absolutely fantastic, but is there still no way to undo a vote that you've done on a post?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by yukirina

This mod is absolutely fantastic, but is there still no way to undo a vote that you've done on a post?

Nope.

[m7sen]

hello
any upgrade ?

we are in 2014 !

[Randhal007]

Originally Posted by m7sen

hello
any upgrade ?

we are in 2014 !

i will wait for that too