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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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by 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!

If you are sure there is at least 1 current nomination running and you have access to nominate then it should work. If it's not I'd have to get a temp admin account to check out what's going on. Sorry about the problems.

Dylan

[Cael]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

If you are sure there is at least 1 current nomination running and you have access to nominate then it should work. If it's not I'd have to get a temp admin account to check out what's going on. Sorry about the problems.

Dylan

Apologies for my late response,

The issue seems to have resolved itself. I checked it today and it seems to be working fine :-).
No clue what has happened.

Thanks!

[DragonByte Tech]

Updated to v1.2.7

Feature: Missing rotating nomination phrases
Feature: Ability to disable poll post creation

[Bounce]

Hi Dylan,

Finding that when this is enabled i get a

The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

error on firefox

Cheers

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Bounce

Hi Dylan,

Finding that when this is enabled i get a

The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

error on firefox

Cheers

Could you PM me a temp admin account to check it out? I haven't seen it do something like that before.

Dylan

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by Trek

I think you should consider how awesome DBT mods must be if you're using so many that it affects your footer. I guess they could only make 1 mod and then only have 1 footer entry... But yeah, then you'd be missing out on everything else they make.

I wouldn't think of it any more than if you installed 10 mods from 10 different authors that drop something in the footer. That many of them are DBT mods tells people that you use and trust them enough to use that many of their mods.

I'm not arguing the footer entries can get out of hand, not at all. =) Just that you can't blame DBT for writing so many excellent mods that you want to use them all. =)

All I said was 2 or 3 links for one mod gets out of hand.. I don't mind one but these are just lite versions or trial versions. Give me a full version with the features and I would not mind exchanging free advertising. In a way we are paying for the lite versions. as I said, I dont mind doing so with a single link but all the added text and everything plus the links just really is a turn off especially on a site that is not related to development.

I still like the mods but for this purpose I wont use the "lite" ones and I doubt any client would be willing to pay for the mod plus a branding removal fee. Just my opinion though and as I said, great work.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

All I said was 2 or 3 links for one mod gets out of hand.. I don't mind one but these are just lite versions or trial versions. Give me a full version with the features and I would not mind exchanging free advertising. In a way we are paying for the lite versions. as I said, I dont mind doing so with a single link but all the added text and everything plus the links just really is a turn off especially on a site that is not related to development.

I still like the mods but for this purpose I wont use the "lite" ones and I doubt any client would be willing to pay for the mod plus a branding removal fee. Just my opinion though and as I said, great work.

We actually have a large number of clients who choose to do just that, but we recognize that not everyone has the resources for that.

To that end we have a mod designed to help minimize the copyright footer for those people running several of our addons: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=277322

Regards,

Iain

[RichieBoy67]

That's great. I will have to check that out. Please do not misunderstand though what I meant. I really love the work and I really don't mind having a link. I do not expect you guys to do work for no credit, etc.

Anyhow, thanks so much for letting us know about that. Some of my clients may be interested.

Take care,
Richie

[MasturB]

I have this installed, but atm, I don't have any post nomination button anywhere...

[Ba'al]

Originally Posted by MasturB

I have this installed, but atm, I don't have any post nomination button anywhere...

http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f177/