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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.

[grey_goose]

Man I checked everything in the second troubleshooting post and still don't see any postbit controls. I use a highly mod'ed legacy postbit, but even when i flip over to the default 'new' postbit... no controls.

[dai-kun]

Originally Posted by Kayden

The product is either: taking forever to upload/import, or hanging. Either way, it's stuck on "Importing Product, Please Wait..."

What could the issue be?


EDIT: MySQL crashed. Awesome.

It happens to me to, if you do mysqladmin proc, it shows that it's trying to add things to the users and posts table which will take a very long time if you have very large tables. I suggest you shutdown your board from members and run it. It takes a long time (for me took 45 mins and i had to import it a couple times since the script timed out on me).

I also suggest that vbboarder adds a warning for members with large forums, telling them that it will cause downtime since tables will be locked waiting for the fields to be added.

[alehawk]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

You did your settings wrong. For the iconid, it's supposed to be a number, NOT a url - that's why you got the SQL error. You can find the iconid when you edit your icon in VB's ACP.

It worked!
One last question, my site is in spanish, what must I edit to translate month names?
Thank you!

[MarceloS]

Hi! Thanks for the excellent plugin.

How do I remove "nominated post" image from postbit? Is it possible?

[MarceloS]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

I recommend folks change template nominate_topic_stamps_box to something like:
...
To get a much cleaner look..... (see attached)

This worked great for me, thanks!

[matthewhotdude]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

I recommend folks change template nominate_topic_stamps_box to something like:

			
</td>
<td>
<div id="nominate_topic_stamps_box_$post[postid]">
$nominate_topic_stamps_box
</div>
</td>

or maybe this:

</td>
<td>
<div id="nominate_topic_stamps_box_$post[postid]">
<span style="float: right; ">
$nominate_topic_stamps_box
</span>
</div>
</td>

To get a much cleaner look..... (see attached)

How?

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

How?

Change this template as instructed.

nominate_topic_stamps_box

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by MarceloS

This worked great for me, thanks!

Great! Glad found it useful! I does look much nicer!

[matthewhotdude]

didnt work for me, messed up my style

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

didnt work for me, messed up my style

Well, why don't you post exactly what your template had before and after, instead of a short message with no information.

It is impossible to help you if you don't provide any information.