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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.

[vbboarder]

@mitch84: That error says you don't have an 'is_blog' column. That column should be in the nominate_topic table - you can verify yourself by reading the beginning of the xml file. Use phpmyadmin to verify that your missing the 'is_blog' column in the nominate_topic table. If it's missing, you can try reinstalling the xml file (allow overwrite); OR use mysql or phpmyadmin to add the table column yourself.

[mitch84]

hi, added by phpadmin because if I use "allow overwrite" this sql line don't write in phpadmin, fixed, thx

[MaR?]

vbboarder two question:

1- how can I delete all winners awards?. Because I was testing the mod, and now I want to start up from 0.
2- Could you please provide the .psd (or whatever)buttons to trasnlate please?.

Thanks.

[jazz_aaf]

for some reason the (disable nominating posts older than X days?) is not working in our forum! We have entered 30 in the field, however, the nominate button is shown in topics older than 30 days. Some are 2 years old!

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by MaR?

vbboarder two question:

1- how can I delete all winners awards?. Because I was testing the mod, and now I want to start up from 0.
2- Could you please provide the .psd (or whatever)buttons to trasnlate please?.

Thanks.

There are only special actions to delete a user's current nominations, and to recount current nominations and past awards (but not delete them). If you want to reset the awards to 0, you would need to use phpmyadmin or mysql browser.

I do not have the psd files since I did not create them. You need to ask princeedward, but I think he said in a previous post that he doesn't use psd's.

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by jazz_aaf

for some reason the (disable nominating posts older than X days?) is not working in our forum! We have entered 30 in the field, however, the nominate button is shown in topics older than 30 days. Some are 2 years old!

I'm not having that problem. I'll see if other users are also having your problem.

[mitch84]

hi, look the screenshoot when a new poll is starting, what's happens? thx

[princeedward]

Originally Posted by MaR?

vbboarder two question:

1- how can I delete all winners awards?. Because I was testing the mod, and now I want to start up from 0.
2- Could you please provide the .psd (or whatever)buttons to trasnlate please?.

Thanks.

what button image you still want to translate brader? maybe i can help you on this...just throw me some sample and idea...the rest is give me time to create them and for you to get ready your paypal to donate something to me....(LOL joke only)

[matthewhotdude]

Princeedward, do you have any icons for the winners?? Because t he Nominated icons were great

[GSeybold]

Thank you for putting your hardwork and time into this. Great mod!