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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]

@buurman: I updated the clear_nominations.php file and fixed the bug. Download it from the 2nd post and redo the instructions again.

[chick]

I have it set to show only 5 polls, and have reputations set to 0. I have always had it set like this

Suddenly for no reason I know..... I keep getting database errors, nothing has changed, that I did.

MySQL Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 's links to 9/11 (please help research this)[/post]', `votes`='4|||1|||2|||4|||4|' at line 1
Error Number : 1064

Also when I refresh poll via the adminCP it is now throwing the above database error... and when NOMINATING a thread it is also causing a database error.

Can you assist vbboarder???

[AzzidReign]

Hey vbboarder,
I'm thinking about installing this mod:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201228

In that, it shows that the old Nomination mod was incompatible, do you know if that has changed with your updated version? Coders Shack I guess no longer supports his mod anymore and I can't get an answer from him and was hoping you might know.

[Bluefin221]

vbboarder can I ask if you intend to update this mod to vb4.0, I have been using this mod successfully since the turn of the year and would love to include it in my vb4.0 installation.

[buurman]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

@buurman: I updated the clear_nominations.php file and fixed the bug. Download it from the 2nd post and redo the instructions again.

New one works perfectly! thank you!

An other question, is it possible to make a MANUAL option?
I dont want the nominations to close/start automaticly.

Last nomination round, it closed the poll, but also DELETED al entrys of the poll.

[mitch84]

hi, a update for vb4? thx

[fbu]

I'm having trouble with withdrawing nominations. I nominated a post, and then when I click on withdraw all nominations, it removes the nomination, but then I refresh the page and the nomination is back. Any idea?

[fbu]

Is this still being supported?

[fbu]

Support for this mod sucks. I PM'd him because I had gotten no response on this thread, and this is what I got for an answer...

Your issue has already been reported - you need to search for the results. I don't have time to help on this issue when it's already been covered. If you can't find the solution, you should just uninstall. BTW, I don't give support by PM.

Like I told him, I read every post in the thread before I posted, and tried everything to resolve my issue (including what I found in the thread), but nothing worked.. so I posted a post requesting help.

You might want to take a different attitude with your support.

Uninstalled and definitely NOT recommended.

[vbboarder]

@fbu: Ohhh, excuse me, I didn't realize that you were paying me such nice $$ that I should drop everything that I do and serve you right away.... yes master.... yes master. I publish my mods to share with others.... notice there is no donations option or site links because I'm not trying to make some $$ with my mods. While I don't strive to be the best supporter, my support is still better than the majority of VB coders as you can determine by the % of (coder replies/ total replies). I'm not gonna change my support attitude just so I can attract more trolls and newbies. I stated the truth, "I don't have time to help on this issue when it's already been covered.", and if you can't handle the truth, that's your problem. Oh, BTW thanks for reaffirming that I don't give support by PM - this is pretty much the standard for the VB coders community

Hmmm, with only 4 posts in 1 yr., thanks for trolling this thread. I wonder.... maybe you're an Avril fan or love goose hunting? If you don't know what that means, then I guess you really didn't read through this whole thread