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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 crkgb

I apologize. Is there any way I could get some support for the issue described in my previous post?

I'm running 3.8.2

Thank You

Have you tried starting a new nomination contest via ACP > Special Actions? If so, are you still having the same problem?

BTW: I can't give support if you manually edit the poll because there are so many things you can change that can cause the nominations contest to no longer work. Note that the contest thread & poll are owned by whoever you set in Nominations settings.

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by grey_goose

ton of us don't get the nom button, but... oh well.

Tons huh.... a bit of an exxageration. I'd say lots of users are able to get the button to display as shown by the hundreds of people who have installed this mod in VB 3.7 & 3.8. Most likely users who can't get the button to show have customized templates and don't fully understand VB templating system.... newbies?

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by messengermatt

I have now so hopefully it will work yes?

I removed all files associated, do i need to remove anything from the DB as it was an SQL command causing the error ?

This mod does necessary DB cleanup when you uninstall. Once you delete the files, you should not get anymore DB errors related to this mod.

[grey_goose]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

Tons huh.... a bit of an exxageration. I'd say lots of users are able to get the button to display as shown by the hundreds of people who have installed this mod in VB 3.7 & 3.8. Most likely users who can't get the button to show have customized templates and don't fully understand VB templating system.... newbies?

Right, because the post detailing the code necessary for inserting the button is glaringly obvious. Or... are we supposed to reverse engineer your template mods, ID it, and strip it out ourselves?

Most likely the install directions are non-existant for those with customized templates. That's what is most likely. Then again, there are so few of us that would have customized templates that visit this site, I can see why you wouldn't bother.

[vbboarder]

@grey goose: well, obvious enough to the many users who installed it in VB 3.7 & 3.8.

Only written 19 posts and you decided to troll this thread.... lucky me

[grey_goose]

I, and a few others, all said we had the same problem.

Did you answer it constructively? No. Your only reply was that I was a 'newbie'.

Buddy... you're trolling your OWN thread.

[crkgb]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

Have you tried starting a new nomination contest via ACP > Special Actions? If so, are you still having the same problem?

BTW: I can't give support if you manually edit the poll because there are so many things you can change that can cause the nominations contest to no longer work. Note that the contest thread & poll are owned by whoever you set in Nominations settings.

Thank you very much for the reply. Will not edit anything in the poll in November. Will see what happens.

What caught my attention was "The poll will get closed in 7 days". While I use TOTM option.

Also It appeared as the pol went to all zeros after the amount of nominated topics exceeded 10 (maximum allowed). Currently have 5. Will see what happens.

Thanks again. Wonderful idea.

[buurman]

vbboarder:

Is it possible to clean up the Winners page/tables, just start with a clean slade??

Thx!

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by grey_goose

I, and a few others, all said we had the same problem.

Well, that statement is now more accurate - and some of those users were able to get the image to show later. This silly conversation would not have started if you did not insert your original unsolicited, snippy comment:

Originally Posted by grey_goose

ton of us don't get the nom button, but... oh well.

[vbboarder]

@crkgb: your problem may be a bug. One other user had the same problem if he set the "topics to display on polls" to 10. 10 is actually a new setting so you should set it to 9. Also, if you lose your nominations from the poll, you can get them back by ACP > Topic Nominations > Refresh Poll action.