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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]

@ Cableguy69: Yes, your edits are correct - either one is fine.

I don't really understand your question. Why did you edit the postbit if the nominate button was already showing up in your private forum?

[Cableguy69]

What I mean is the button only shows in a locked down area only visible to me, the problem is the nominate button only shows in posts 9, which is the last post in that thread. The button does not appear anywhere else out of 20 or so categories.

I did the edit in a last ditch attempt to get it working.

I also tried to add this piece of code directly into the post bit as I could see it in the page source.

				<a href="nominate_topic.php?do=nominate_topic_add_user&amp;p=17743&amp;securitytoken=1256074968-506f86c196cd3de8a485f42502d12c1430b68a94" id="nominate_topic_button_17743"  onclick="nominate_topic_add_user(17743); return false;" style="display:none" rel="nofollow"><img src="images/styles/BlissfullySimple/buttons/nominate/nominate_topic.gif" alt="Nominate this post" border="0" /></a>

Unfortunately that made no difference either.

I'll try uninstalling and starting over fresh, I can't see it making any difference though.

[Cableguy69]

Reinstalled it and came across this when trying to finalize and create poll.

[Cableguy69]

Ah right now I've got it working, reverted to the default setting and it's there although it's not quite yet working how I want it to lol.

Cheers Vbboarder. I made some Icons for my board, so I thought I'd share em with anybody who wants them.

They're saved as Transparent editable .png files so fonts colour ect can be changed.

I've posted them here.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=225698

[Cableguy69]

Can I just ask were about I need to edit this TOTW/F/M so it just shows TOTW?

[matthewhotdude]

Thanks for the ribbons cable guy

[matthewhotdude]

How can I change this, so it shows a different ribbon for first and second place?

[MarceloS]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

If you have a 'post' sql table backup before you uninstalled the old mod, then you can restore your old awards - otherwise, no.

I have daily backups of my database. Do you know how can I get the data from a backup database and add it to the current one?

Thanks for your help!

[Cableguy69]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

How can I change this, so it shows a different ribbon for first and second place?

I'm not sure sorry I've named the images the same as the default ones.

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by Cableguy69

I'm not sure sorry I've named the images the same as the default ones.

The names of the images need to be exactly the same as the ones they are supposed to replace, otherwise the wrong images will show. Thanks for sharing - they look great

Regarding 'TOTW/F/M' phrase, you need to search for that term in the Phrase Manager - I forgot the exact name for it right now.

Glad you finally got it working Yeah, you should used the default settings 'cause those are the ones that I tested the most so they're most likely to be reliable.