Add-On Releases - [AJAX] Helpful Answers - Allow users to rate individual posts

Helpful Answers has been used to record over 6 MILLION times on more than 2,000 forums. If you're not using HA your users are looking for it!

Every day your users contribute hundreds if not thousands of posts making it hard for new members and guests to separate out the best answers from those that are less helpful. The Helpful Answers System offers your members a quick way to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the value of each post.

Designed to be flexible, HA has over 30 configurable settings:

• Use image or text ratings AJAX or traditional links.
• Offer yes/no or scaled 1-10 point ranking.
• Turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
• Decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
• Audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
• Ban specific members from using the system.
• Customize the message shown after a post is rated.
• Show a page with the top helpful posts.
• Show rating stats on a user's profile.
• Hide posts that rate "too low"
• Template driven so you can customize it all for your forum.

For advanced users template conditionals and variables let you further extend the functionality to color highlight good or bad posts, include ratings in user?s profiles and much more.

Modification Installation [Must Read]:

Step 1: Upload the addon files found in the upload/ folder to your forum directory
Step 2: Install the plugin through your vB Administration area
Step 3: Configure settings & enable the mod in individual forums

You must configure settings & enable forums before voting will show up.
Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):

By default this addon will pass basic rating data (positive or negative) to a 3rd party site for statistical purposes. Only the most basic data is captured (the vote and your site name) and no user information or specific forum details are logged, not even an IP address. You can disable this through the admin.

Mod Philosophy -- Drive Your Own Success:

All of my mods are inspired by my work in digital marketing and are designed to drive registrations, interaction or other engagement activities the core platform does not address.

Each is designed to fit a general need by providing a starting point but it's on you to decide how to make things work to their best possible outcome. Feel free to suggest what you'd like to see next but don't wait to have what everyone else has; figure out what your forum needs and customize away.

[Jabong82]

How do you edit the template?

I am able to see the "Did you find this post helpful? Yes | No" but then when I click on either yes or no I get sent to an error page (incorrect url).

I guess it has something to do with the update? Any help would be appreciated.

[Ted S]

How is the url incorrect (look at the path to see if it's in the wrong folder or something)?

You can edit the template helpful_answers or helpful_answers_roll

[Jabong82]

Yah I put it in the wrong folder. Great mod marked installed and nominated!

[SurfTalk]

Sorry to raise this again, but no reply in 8 days? Can anyone advise please? I've followed the install instructions, enabled the 10 point ranking on the forum. Under the post i have the clickable 1 to 10 scale, but when selecting a rating I get the following error message, "Fatal error: Call to undefined function can_administer() in ......(path) to helpfulanswers.php on line 28" Do you know what I've done wrong? Thanks for your help!

[Pro-eSports.com]

1. To which 3rd party site will stats be reported too? I would like to overview these stats too as site owner.

2. The ratings are not showing up in the threads and I already set all the permissions and stuff. Help!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SurfTalk

Sorry to raise this again, but no reply in 8 days? Can anyone advise please? I've followed the install instructions, enabled the 10 point ranking on the forum. Under the post i have the clickable 1 to 10 scale, but when selecting a rating I get the following error message, "Fatal error: Call to undefined function can_administer() in ......(path) to helpfulanswers.php on line 28" Do you know what I've done wrong? Thanks for your help!

No one else has reported this error so I'm wondering if you have some sort of conflict. Are you running this on 4.01/ 4.02 or do you have an older version?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Pro-eSports.com

1. To which 3rd party site will stats be reported too? I would like to overview these stats too as site owner.

The optional reporting tool sends voting data (just sitename + vote) back to this mod for global stats. These are not published or shared in any detail but are simply used to report on the success and impact of this mod in this thread. This feature can be turned off at any time.

You have a much more robust analytics tool included with this mod in your admincp.

Originally Posted by Pro-eSports.com

2. The ratings are not showing up in the threads and I already set all the permissions and stuff. Help!

Be sure you are using auto template placement and have enabled this in the forum you are viewing.

[Pro-eSports.com]

How to enable it for the forum I am viewing?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Pro-eSports.com

How to enable it for the forum I am viewing?

Individually through the forum manager or in bulk with the helpful answers bulk editor tool.

[nibb]

There isnt installation instruction. There is just a file to upload and an upload folder.

Which of the xml im support to upload? And what about the upload folder, should be it FTP it manually?