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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.

[AzzidReign]

Originally Posted by 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.

I'm wondering if you could just comment on this real quick vbboarder. If you don't know, that's fine, I'm just hoping that you might. If anything, I'll give it a try and report back to you.

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by AzzidReign

I'm wondering if you could just comment on this real quick vbboarder. If you don't know, that's fine, I'm just hoping that you might. If anything, I'll give it a try and report back to you.

Inciarco posted a possible solution for compatibility with Live Topic. I don't know if it works with either the old or new Topic Nominations mod 'cause I don't use Live Topic. You can search for his posts in the old thread and try it out.

[mgurain]

Hi, any screen shots please ?
Is it the one used here in vbulletin.org ?

Thanks,,

[2dub]

I've probably made a boneheaded mistake somewhere, but can not find it....

When I click the Nominate button I get an error message reading:

The resource requested could not be found on this server!

Any thoughts?

[2dub]

Fixed it Thanks!

[AzzidReign]

I'm trying to uninstall this mod so I can upgrade to vb4.0 and this is the error I'm getting:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE `user` DROP `nominate_topic_user_received`;

MySQL Error : Can't DROP 'nominate_topic_user_received'; check that column/key exists
Error Number : 1091
Request Date : Friday, February 19th 2010 @ 09:17:01 AM
Error Date : Friday, February 19th 2010 @ 09:17:01 AM
Script : http://www.xxxxx.com/testconvert/adm...do=productkill
Referrer : http://www.xxxx.com/testconvert/admi...inate_topic&s=
IP Address :
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.89-community-log

[loovie]

will it give an update for vb4?...me would make happy!

excuses my bad English!

[bsalu]

Will this mod work on 4.0.2?

Thanks

[Deviate]

Originally Posted by AzzidReign

I'm trying to uninstall this mod so I can upgrade to vb4.0 and this is the error I'm getting:

Same thing here.

[dgparent]

Never mind figured it out ~