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Answers Forum
Ever wanted to enable the ability to specify a certain forum as an "answer" forum, where members can post questions and select the best answer given by the community? This is similar to yahoo answers, a very effective website where users can post questions and seek answers from registered users. Answering questions can get to be a mess, keep it organized and save yourself a bit of hassle when dealing with Q&A's. As a webmaster, you already have enough on your hands to have to worry about answering questions sometimes, and need an effective way to do this! Or maybe, you just want to let your community do it for you

Difference Between Answer Forum Light & Answer Forums Premium

* Enable a questions forum Lite/Premium
* Allow users to choose best answer Lite/Premium
* Integrates with vbplaza (reward answer providers) Lite/Premium
* Question Statistics on forumdisplay Premium Only
* Top Helpers on forumdisplay Premium Only
* Recently Answered on forumdisplay Premium Only
* View Answered Topics Premium Only
* View Unanswered Topics Premium Only
* Answered Topics in postbit Premium Only
* Private Message user who's answer was chosen Premium Only
* Private Message answer provider if the answer is reset Premium Only
* Control user's ability to reset their own topic's answer Premium Only
* Allow usergroups to reset any topic's answer Premium Only
* Allow usergroups to select any topic's answer Premium Only *new
* Integrates with vbcredits (reward answer providers) Premium Only

:up: Tips & Suggestions :up:
I've found that using Thread Prefixes and tweaking things up a bit is a great way to get things categories, unless you want to make forums for each or use Extra Threadfields Had been asked this a few times.

Premium Modification:
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[Quantnet]

Originally Posted by thedudleys

I uploaded this but it does not exactly show up in the usergroup permissions it seems. I went into the registered member usergroup and seen a blank spot while this hack was enabled. I disabled it & the blank spot went away - I attached an image to show you what I mean. If you could help please...I'd love to use this hack.

That's the premium version. This version is free and you don't have that usergroup permission option.

[chick]

I bought the premium unbranded version from Gio and I like the way it works, not to mention great support... support is everything!!! thanks G.

[Gio~Logist]

Originally Posted by Quantnet

That's the premium version. This version is free and you don't have that usergroup permission option.

Right on the ball

Originally Posted by Quantnet

How do you make the Best Answer post stand out a bit more, maybe a configurable background color?
Which template to edit?

Thanks

showthread_answer

[Quantnet]

Hi Gio,

When I enable the stats, in the default style, the stats box show on the right, aligned nicely but in my custom style, it is a bit off.

I think I need to modify the answer_foot and answer_head templates a bit. Can you see the attachment images and suggest some help. I would prefer to have the stat tables move down abit and align to the thread table.

Also, right now, the top helpers show 10, but if I only have 3 helpers, the remaining 7 would be all with 0 answers, the sql would just pull the registered members by their registration date.

[Quantnet]

Another thing
You posted that to show the best answer once, use the <if> statement in the postbit template. I did that, it was fine until I found out that this would cause the PM to not display the body, and just the reply box only.

The PM use the same postbit template so it checks how many post in it.

Any other suggestion?

[thedudleys]

Originally Posted by Quantnet

That's the premium version. This version is free and you don't have that usergroup permission option.

Understood, however, it shouldn't even show nonetheless like that to confuse someone and give them the impression of it being broken. But thank you for clearing that up for me though, it is really appreciated (Just wish vb.org had the thank you hack lol)


*Uninstalled

[Gio~Logist]

Originally Posted by Quantnet

Another thing
You posted that to show the best answer once, use the <if> statement in the postbit template. I did that, it was fine until I found out that this would cause the PM to not display the body, and just the reply box only.

The PM use the same postbit template so it checks how many post in it.

Any other suggestion?

Can I ask what conditional you used? PM's don't have postid's so if any other poss passed the conditional, PMs should as well. Depending on how your conditional was formatted.

Originally Posted by Quantnet

Hi Gio,

When I enable the stats, in the default style, the stats box show on the right, aligned nicely but in my custom style, it is a bit off.

I think I need to modify the answer_foot and answer_head templates a bit. Can you see the attachment images and suggest some help. I would prefer to have the stat tables move down abit and align to the thread table.

Also, right now, the top helpers show 10, but if I only have 3 helpers, the remaining 7 would be all with 0 answers, the sql would just pull the registered members by their registration date.

Try editing the Answer Forums - Transform Forumdisplay plugin, and changing:

PHP Code:

        eval('$header .= "' . fetch_template("answer_forums_head") . '";'); 


To

PHP Code:

        eval('$navbar .= "' . fetch_template("answer_forums_head") . '";'); 


[Quantnet]

Originally Posted by Gio~Logist

Can I ask what conditional you used? PM's don't have postid's so if any other poss passed the conditional, PMs should as well. Depending on how your conditional was formatted.

This <if condition="$post[postid] != $thread[g_answer_forum_answer]"> from your site
http://www.provb.org/showthread.php?t=625

It actually took me awhile to find this and fix when people report the PM issue.

and thanks for the navbar fix.

[Duncan Idaha]

Is there a way to change "best answer' so simply "answered' or something else? Some forum folks can be a bit sensitive for the "competition" element created by the best answer....

[Duncan Idaha]

Found it, in the VBulletin AdminCP, the phrases.