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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]

Originally Posted by 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???

I'm not aware of any setting that prevents new posts from being nominated.

[matthewhotdude]

Any idea when a new version will be released? and if you will deffinatly include my idea of it posting the results

[alehawk]

Hi!
I installed it but it doesnt work, when I click the nominate button it will take me to http://foro.adprueba.com.ar/nominate...1187e3954dd5f5 and nothing happens, blank screen.
How can that be fixed?
(I did step 5)
Tnx!

[g0dfather1984]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

I'm not aware of any setting that prevents new posts from being nominated.

I provided images of the member quoting their own post from 1 week ago to show that it's not allowing them to nominate posts unless they're a week old.

Sorry about this.

[crazymilk]

I get this when i start a poll

Create New Poll Thread
You must specify a forumid in VB Options to place the nomination contest poll.

How do i do this?

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by alehawk

Hi!
I installed it but it doesnt work, when I click the nominate button it will take me to http://foro.adprueba.com.ar/nominate...1187e3954dd5f5 and nothing happens, blank screen.
How can that be fixed?
(I did step 5)
Tnx!

You should mark "Installed" if you want help. Did you do steps 4 & 6?

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by crazymilk

I get this when i start a poll

Create New Poll Thread
You must specify a forumid in VB Options to place the nomination contest poll.

How do i do this?

Exactly as it says.... ACP > VB Options > Nominate Topic

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by g0dfather1984

I provided images of the member quoting their own post from 1 week ago to show that it's not allowing them to nominate posts unless they're a week old.

Sorry about this.

If you're quoting to test, then the post belongs to you. Did you check your settings to see if you allowed:
1. nominate your own post?
2. admins/ moderators can nominate?
3. only 1st post can be nominated?

[g0dfather1984]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

If you're quoting to test, then the post belongs to you. Did you check your settings to see if you allowed:
1. nominate your own post?
2. admins/ moderators can nominate?
3. only 1st post can be nominated?

No, I had someone else test it, to see if I could nominate their post and I couldn't.

One of the posts in the images that you can nominate is a week old, while the other image is a post that's only a minute old and you can't nominate.

I don't understand why it's not allowing us to nominate unless the post or thread is exactly a week old.

[alehawk]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

You should mark "Installed" if you want help. Did you do steps 4 & 6?

It is marked now. I followed every singe step.
I've created the first poll with the product option and its empty. I ckick the nominate button in any post and it will get me to as blank screen.