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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 MarceloS

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!

If you restore your whole 'post' table, you'll lose posts that are newer than the backup date. So it's better to restore just the nominate_topic_award and nominate_topic_award_rank columns - can't help ya with that though since that's a site admin issue.

[Gersfan]

Super Mod!

Installed and seems to be working fine, however the nomination is not showing up for registered members but it's showing up for me. I've checked over the settings several times, I haven't banned any usergroups or userids either and I can't see why it's not being displayed for members only.

EDIT: In fact, now it's working for everyone in every other forum expect the one individual forum the Poll is posted in, WTF :L

[crkgb]

Something weird is happening. I have it set up to monthly nominations. Installed the mod in the middle of the month. When the poll was created (10.16.2009), I went in to edit the poll (just to see what it looks like on the inside). On the inside it says "This poll gets closed in 7 days". Well I manually added 15 days to match the end of the month.

I went into the poll thread today and I have zero nominations in there (all nominations have mysteriously disappeared), though it does say that 25 people have voted. Picture is attached. I tried to update just about everything and anything through the ACP. No change.

What is happening? Thanks.

[Cableguy69]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

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.

It's a great mod and already taking off really well on my forum, I'll review the file names maybe I made an error somewhere.

Keep up the good work Vbboarder and if you ever need any icons buttons ect just holla.

[Cableguy69]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

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

I've just checked over the files and the image names are correct.



1st = nominated_award_1.png
1st = nominated_award_0_1.png
1st = nominated_award_1_1.png
1st = nominated_award_2_1.png



2nd = nominated_award_2.png
2nd = nominated_award_0_2.png
2nd = nominated_award_1_2.png
2nd = nominated_award_2_2.png



3rd = nominated_award_0.png
3rd = nominated_award_0_0.png
3rd = nominated_award_1_0.png
3rd = nominated_award_2_0.png

[Gersfan]

Any one got any ideas why the nomination button isn't showing up the forum where the Poll thread is created? It's working for everyone and everywhere else.

[matthewhotdude]

I only replaced one of the original images, it has always been the same from default, it would show 1st place ribbon, for first and second place.

This is the URL to the ribbon for first and second place

http://www.chattaboxforums.com/image...rds_ribbon.gif

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by Gersfan

Any one got any ideas why the nomination button isn't showing up the forum where the Poll thread is created? It's working for everyone and everywhere else.

You should create a forum just for the nominations poll threads, otherwise the nominations themselves can be nominated.

[Gersfan]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

You should create a forum just for the nominations poll threads, otherwise the nominations themselves can be nominated.

Thanks, I thought about that. However is that a requirement or just a suggestion?

EDIT: I've just done that, works fine, Thanks (Y)

[Cableguy69]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

I only replaced one of the original images, it has always been the same from default, it would show 1st place ribbon, for first and second place.

This is the URL to the ribbon for first and second place

http://www.chattaboxforums.com/image...rds_ribbon.gif

You've replaced the wrong image.

The default image is this.

awards_ribbon.gif



The custom one I'm using is this one.

awards_ribbon.gif



So you must have renamed the file before or after uploading to the server.

Like said in the previous post these are the correct file names for the correct images and all of them need to be uploaded.




1st = nominated_award_1.png
1st = nominated_award_0_1.png
1st = nominated_award_1_1.png
1st = nominated_award_2_1.png



2nd = nominated_award_2.png
2nd = nominated_award_0_2.png
2nd = nominated_award_1_2.png
2nd = nominated_award_2_2.png



3rd = nominated_award_0.png
3rd = nominated_award_0_0.png
3rd = nominated_award_1_0.png
3rd = nominated_award_2_0.png