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.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Michlerish

No, I thought that was optional and not necessary. Is that needed to get it working/visible (referring to the template edit mentioned in first post of thread)?

Nope, but some people have customized templates which stop the mod from autoloading.

[wastemytime]

Hi,

If i click on a users Post to rate, text changes to "Database Error" and nothing else. I know, that's not much Information, but how can i see the Error Log or do you know what's maybe wrong? I'm running 4.0.6.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by wastemytime

Hi,

If i click on a users Post to rate, text changes to "Database Error" and nothing else. I know, that's not much Information, but how can i see the Error Log or do you know what's maybe wrong? I'm running 4.0.6.

You should get an email about the error, if not change your config.php setting to include a webmaster email or view-source the page to get the details.

[wastemytime]

Thank you. I get this Error:

Invalid SQL:

INSERT INTO vb_helpfulanswer
SET postid = 259155, threadid = 18705, userid = 1, yesno = '1', dateline = 1283840962;

MySQL-Error: Unknown column 'threadid' in 'field list'

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by wastemytime

Thank you. I get this Error:

Invalid SQL:
 
INSERT INTO vb_helpfulanswer
SET postid = 259155, threadid = 18705, userid = 1, yesno = '1', dateline = 1283840962;
 
MySQL-Error: Unknown column 'threadid' in 'field list'

Are you a new install or an upgrade?

[wastemytime]

It's an upgrade from 3.x

[dianna]

I uploaded this and using the defualt template yet nothing is showing on any threads how can I fix this?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by dianna

I uploaded this and using the defualt template yet nothing is showing on any threads how can I fix this?

Did you enable this for the forum you are in?

[dianna]

at first I didn't have any selected forums for it to show in thinking if left blank it would default and show in all forums. Then I went and selected the forums I wanted it to show in and still nothing

[dianna]

ok I got it fixed had to uninstall and reinstall something didn't upload first time around any who its showing yay now question what do I change to edit "did you find this helpful?" like? Also I am getting this error (see attachment) when you click on thumbs up help please!