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Week / Month Topic Nominations · **Released**: 09-18-2009

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:

Upload the content of the "upload" folder into your forum root directory
Import the "product_nominate_topic.xml" product via your ACP:
ACP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Product -> Add/Import Product (Allow overwrite for updating)
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.
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.
For new installs only, start a new nomination poll at:
ACP side menu -> Nominate Topic -> Special Actions -> Create New Poll Thread
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 · #**142** 10-01-2009, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by barbados

Thank you matthewhotdude !!!!

Did that solve it? the folder or the file edit?

Wird0 · #**143** 10-02-2009, 06:21 AM

I see a problem and i am not sure if its known already and if there is a sollution to this.

Whave music names in our forum and vote for Track Of The Month.
When we aply a song with a "&" in the name it automaticly puts the word "amp;" behind the name in the Track Of The Month, View Poll Results forum. In the original forum the name stay correct.

Original:
Roger Shah & Signum - Healeville Sanctuary (Roger Shah Mix)
View Poll Results:
Roger Shah & Signum - Healeville Sanctuary (Roger Shah Mix)

Is there a sollution to this problem?

vbboarder · #**144** 10-02-2009, 03:20 PM

@Wird0: this is a known issue with VB polls; for example, you can create your own polls and the same thing would happen ('&' converted to '&'), or just see this thread here at VB.org.

vbboarder · #**145** 10-02-2009, 03:24 PM

@matthew: glad the automatic cron for the nomination contest worked fine for you. Regarding your suggestion, I'll consider having a post automatically created to announce the winners, but not a thread auto-created since the poll is already in a thread.

MaR? · #**146** 10-02-2009, 06:32 PM

vbboarder is possibly to change poll opstions urls from "[post=_______]......[/post]" to "[url=......][url]" because I use vbseo and isnt working the links.

Thans

chick · #**147** 10-02-2009, 11:46 PM

vbboarder, sorry I had clicked installed on your previous version... just click on this one too. It did not auto generate, so I ran a cron and it generated. I wish it would do it by itself?

chick · #**148** 10-02-2009, 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vbboarder

The winner award stamps should appear in the same exact location in postbit as the nomination stamps.

Here are the images I made for nominating and nominated thread

AzzidReign · #**149** 10-03-2009, 04:08 PM

Worked fine for me. Winners were chosen and given awards for last month and a new thread was automatically generated.

As for the vbseo person...I also have it and it works just fine for me. You probably have a bad setting in one of the rewrite options.

Also, vbboarder...what do I do with this? Did you mean for the nominated image to be floating around in the postbit? I know the last version had it in the upper right hand corner...

vbboarder · #**150** 10-03-2009, 05:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chick

vbboarder, sorry I had clicked installed on your previous version... just click on this one too. It did not auto generate, so I ran a cron and it generated. I wish it would do it by itself?

The auto cron worked fine for several users. Did you read this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=133

Do you have a customized footer template? $cronimage MUST BE PRESENT in that template.

vbboarder · #**151** 10-03-2009, 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AzzidReign

Worked fine for me. Winners were chosen and given awards for last month and a new thread was automatically generated.

As for the vbseo person...I also have it and it works just fine for me. You probably have a bad setting in one of the rewrite options.

Also, vbboarder...what do I do with this? Did you mean for the nominated image to be floating around in the postbit? I know the last version had it in the upper right hand corner...

Thanks for confirming that the auto cron works fine.

Please upload an image to your post. I don't go to unknown sites on my development computer for security reasons.

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