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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.

[chick]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

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.

ahh ok, I got it... I will add it back. I had removed it because it leaves a space that was driving me crazy.

Does it matter where in the footer I put it?

[dai-kun]

Thanks great mod & voted for MOTM.

Ideas:
I don't use it for topic of the week/month, but for other contests such as Member of the Month, Signature of the Week, Profile of the Week, etc.

What we do is we post in the CONTEST forum a thread, let's say Member of the Month (MOTM) OCT.
Then on that first post we state the rules and other things for the contest. So first question, is it possible to disable first post from being nominated while all the other posts of that thread can be. This is so people don't nominate the post that isn't suppose to.
So then we have members reply to the MOTM thread with their USERNAME as the TITLE of their post, so the polls show their name when they are nominated.
Ok, everything works great.

Now, I want to create another contest thread Signature of the Week (SOTW) OCT W1. The problem is that the cycle time is set to Month.. I'm not sure how to make it work so that it shows up as Week. So second question, is it possible to pick day, week, or month depending on the thread? Or is it possible to have one forum use Week and another forum uses Month? If this not possible then I guess I can remove the Contest: [title] Of The [cycle] [month], [year] above the usernames and manually change the Title of the poll thread. And I will also have to change the Nomination Threads Standard Message text when the thread poll is made.
So last question, is it possible to have options like "add nominations forum" where we add a forum that we choose the forum and decide how the nominations work for that forum like "cycle" , "nomination threads standard message" , "nomination contest title" and a lot of the already included options but set for the forum we set it to.

Example:
Admin clicks on "add nomination forum"
Setting the options for forum 1:

• Forum: Member of the Month MOTM
• Cycle: Monthly
• Nomination Contest Title: Member
• Nomination Threads Standard Message: whatever goes here
• and many of the other options that's too many to list.

Admin clicks on "add nomination forum"
Setting the options for forum 2:

• Forum: Signature of the Week SOTW
• Cycle: Weekly
• Nomination Contest Title: Signature
• Nomination Threads Standard Message: whatever goes here
• and many of the other options that's too many to list.

Thanks for reading.. this sounds like another mod that you can make.

[MaR?]

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

Thanks!!!

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Originally Posted by princeedward

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)

Hello again!!!! I miss your post!... Thanks again!

awards_ribbon.gif= First Place = Primer Lugar

nominated_award_1_1.png= TOTW 1st = TDLS 1er.

nominated_award_1_2.png= TOTW 2nd = TDLS 2do.

nominated_award_1_0.png= TOTW 3rd = TDLS 3er.

THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH!!!!... let me know if I can do something or you!!!

[AzzidReign]

Originally Posted by MaR?

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

I have vbseo and it works just fine bro. You have a re-write setting that isn't set right. I wish I knew what it was...


Here's the image vbboarder.

[MaR?]

Azzid, I open a ticke in Vbseo, they tolld me that those topics dons?t exist... look:

Nuevo AltoForo: ?Que te parece? - 33,33%
Turismo AF ( nueva secci?n) - 16,67%
Spot Pol?mico - 16,67%
Televisi?n Espa?ola en manos de Clar?n....o sera que...? - 16,67%
Tramit? ciudadan?a alemana.. - 16,67%


Altough:

http://www.altoforo.com/anuncios-y-t...te-parece.html
http://www.altoforo.com/salidas-anec...a-seccion.html

etc.

[AzzidReign]

Never said topics...I said settings. There isn't one directly related to this product, it has to do with single posts rewrite.

[MaR?]

Yes, they look at my settings.... the answer was: "Those topis dosn´t exist". Can you please linkme to your forum to see how itps working for you?

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by AzzidReign

I have vbseo and it works just fine bro. You have a re-write setting that isn't set right. I wish I knew what it was...


Here's the image vbboarder.

There's no float css for the nomination & award stamps in the nominate_topic_stamps template - you can verify yourself. You may have customized your postbit template, so if you floated elements in the userinfo area of postbit, you'll also need to float the stamp image in the nominate_topic_stamps template.

@MaRu: I think AzzidReign is right about the vbseo setting - don't know which one though since I don't use it.

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by dai-kun

Thanks great mod & voted for MOTM.

Ideas:
I don't use it for topic of the week/month, but for other contests such as Member of the Month, Signature of the Week, Profile of the Week, etc.

What we do is we post in the CONTEST forum a thread, let's say Member of the Month (MOTM) OCT.
Then on that first post we state the rules and other things for the contest. So first question, is it possible to disable first post from being nominated while all the other posts of that thread can be. This is so people don't nominate the post that isn't suppose to.
So then we have members reply to the MOTM thread with their USERNAME as the TITLE of their post, so the polls show their name when they are nominated.
Ok, everything works great.

Now, I want to create another contest thread Signature of the Week (SOTW) OCT W1. The problem is that the cycle time is set to Month.. I'm not sure how to make it work so that it shows up as Week. So second question, is it possible to pick day, week, or month depending on the thread? Or is it possible to have one forum use Week and another forum uses Month? If this not possible then I guess I can remove the Contest: [title] Of The [cycle] [month], [year] above the usernames and manually change the Title of the poll thread. And I will also have to change the Nomination Threads Standard Message text when the thread poll is made.
So last question, is it possible to have options like "add nominations forum" where we add a forum that we choose the forum and decide how the nominations work for that forum like "cycle" , "nomination threads standard message" , "nomination contest title" and a lot of the already included options but set for the forum we set it to.

Gosh, talking about 20 questions.... J.K. Anyways, see the "cycle time" and "contest title" settings - they determine the thread title and PM title/ message. You can specify multiple forums to enable nominations, but they should be for the same subject (ie: posts, members, etc.) and they all share the same settings. You can not disable the first post only, but you can do the opposite - "enable the first post only".

Thanks for reading.. this sounds like another mod that you can make.

It's definitely requires another mod, but unlikely it would be made since it requires a lot of coding/ time.

[g0dfather1984]

Please disregard my message sent to you.

The mod is still working ...

However ...

We can not nominate new topics but we can nominate topics that are over a week old.

Am I missing a setting here???