Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] vBNominate v1 (vB4) [AJAX]

vBNominate is an advanced nomination system. Several different types of nominations are available and it is fully automated to keep your users engaged and interested in your communities activity while keeping maintenance down.

Uses
As admin you will be able to create several different types of nominations. The nominations can either end with the top nominated items winning or a separate poll will automatically be created with the top items.

Once the poll is completed the nomination is updated automatically with the results. No manual intervention is needed on your part! You can specify the type of nomination to be run or you can let it run on several different types of items like threads, polls, blogs, etc.

The nominations system will make it easy for users to have competitions for the best post, thread and more while browsing the forum. No need to go to a special page to vote, all voting can be done for any post from any thread via AJAX.

Instructions
Here are some basics on how to get the nominations started.
1) Make sure you modify the usergroups that will be allowed to nominate.
ACP->Usergroups->UserGroup Manager
2) Create a rotating nomination
ACP->DBTech - vBNominate-> Create Rotating
An example, if you want a weekly Thread nomination, set Type to Thread, Cycle to Weekly, End Date way far in the future, like Dec 31 2058. After you submit new Nomination go to step 3.
3) Edit new Inactive Nomination
ACP->DBTech - vBNominate-> Current Nominations
You should now have an inactive nomination. Edit it if you need to make any changes then set it to active.

You should now have a Nomination link in your postbit. At the end of the week it will automatically end and start a new one on the day you specified.

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Complete Feature List

Lite

• Forumhome block to display latest completed nominations and current running nominations
• Ajax Nominations for seamless use
• Nomination Types
  • Thread
  • Post
  • Signature
  • Blog
  • Blog Comment
  • Avatar
  • All Previous
• Delete individual Nomination votes
• View/Edit/Delete Nominations
• Nomination Administration
  • Create Rotating Nominations (Automatically created on schedule)
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
    • Auto Score - Most nominated will win
    • Poll Results - Most nominated will be added to a timed poll
    • Start Date
    • End Date
    • Number of Finalists
    • Number of Winners
    • Winning postbit image
    • Nomination Type
• Per Usergroup
  • Can Nominate

Pro

• CMS Widget scrolls display of latest completed nominations
• Forum sidebar block scrolls display of latest completed nominations
• Ability to display winner postbit images
• Create One Time Nomination
  • Auto Score - Most nominated will win
  • Poll Results - Most nominated will be added to a timed poll
  • Start Date
  • End Date
  • Number of Finalists
  • Number of Winners
  • Winning postbit image
  • Nomination Type

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[Ski-Whiz]

Is this hack hard to get it to do "Yearly" vice monthly?

I'm ready to buy if it's a simple change.

[Ski-Whiz]

Never mind about the yearly post above. I didn't realize how it worked and see that would be really tough.

I do have one issue though. I created a nomination. I can see it being an Admin, but no one else can see it.

I checked the permissions on the current nominate, and the rotation areas, and they are set accordingly. I've selected just one usergroup, all of them etc..

I can't get the regular members to see the Vote button..

Is there something else I'm missing?

[justicechick]

<i>I was doing so well until I went to install the XML file and I get the error code: /home/theflir1/public_html/dbtech/vbnominate/includes/class_install.php appears to be missing!

Ive checked and double checked and the file is in there.

File Manager File Manager
Settings

Current Directory:

/
public_html/
dbtech/
vnominate/
includes/

application/x-httpd-php class_core.php 48.42 KB 0644
application/x-httpd-php class_install.php 5.47 KB 0644
application/x-httpd-php class_profileblock.php 3.4 KB 0644
application/x-httpd-php class_template.php 1.54 KB 0644
application/x-httpd-php common_functions.php 2.77 KB 0644
text/html index.html 0 bytes 0644</i>

[justicechick]

Still no help for this is suppose!

[justicechick]

OK!!! I finally messed around and got it deployed. the only problems not is the combined button covers my post thant. Where and how. We hardly ever use our blod so I wanted this area that would be if we took at the blog are. so I would be happy to remove that blog lick in the post-bit and replace it with vnominate

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by SpikedRocker

Nope did not help. I did a clean install after I did my backup thinking that something could have errored in the first place.

The mod is working cause we were able to generate a poll post but nothing was in it because no one has been able to nominate.

Originally Posted by booble

I can?t see button nominate :__(

Originally Posted by Ski-Whiz

Never mind about the yearly post above. I didn't realize how it worked and see that would be really tough.

I do have one issue though. I created a nomination. I can see it being an Admin, but no one else can see it.

I checked the permissions on the current nominate, and the rotation areas, and they are set accordingly. I've selected just one usergroup, all of them etc..

I can't get the regular members to see the Vote button..

Is there something else I'm missing?

Sorry I've been really busy and haven't been able to check here for a bit.

This could be the same problem, did you set the usergroup permission so the usergroup would be allowed to nominate? There's just one option for nominate when you edit the usergroup settings, it's called Can nominate

Dylan

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by justicechick

OK!!! I finally messed around and got it deployed. the only problems not is the combined button covers my post thant. Where and how. We hardly ever use our blod so I wanted this area that would be if we took at the blog are. so I would be happy to remove that blog lick in the post-bit and replace it with vnominate

I'm not sure what you mean here?

Dylan

[Ski-Whiz]

Is there a way to change your vote? Are there any in the plans?

It should be added, especially if you use the nominate method to determine the winner.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Ski-Whiz

Is there a way to change your vote? Are there any in the plans?

It should be added, especially if you use the nominate method to determine the winner.

Currently you can't change your vote. I will put in a feature request on our site to make it admin selectable to allow users to vote for something new and replace their old vote.

Dylan

[Cael]

Hello,

I seem to be experiencing the same issue as others aswell.
There are NO nominate buttons. I made sure that my usergroup can nominate though.
Any suggestions?

~ Cael

P.s - Good work on all the mods Dragonbyte made!