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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.

[matthewhotdude]

Well I have no hope then, Can you screen shot or tell me what the options should be?

It was working fine earlier and nothing has changed since then

Also could it be becuse there are more that 10 threads nominated?

So that won't have anything to do with this?

[matthewhotdude]

Yes, As soon as I deleted some nominations, to bring it back down to 10 threads nominated, the poll re-appeared....How can I stop this happening?

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

Well I have no hope then, Can you screen shot or tell me what the options should be?
It was working fine earlier and nothing has changed since then

So that won't have anything to do with this?

I already told you where to find the default options....

The VB Options only allows max 10 nominated topics.

How many nominated topics are you allowing? Do you remember how many topics were nominated when the problem happened (ie: 5, 9, 10, etc.)?

[matthewhotdude]

Maximun Number Of Topic To Display On Polls
Select the maximum number of topics you wish to have displayed in the polls.

I have got that set to 10, there were more than 10 nominations...so how do I stop more than 10 threads being nominated

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

Maximun Number Of Topic To Display On Polls
Select the maximum number of topics you wish to have displayed in the polls.


I have got that set to 10, there were more than 10 nominations...so how do I stop more than 10 threads being nominated

It should have stopped at 10 in the contest poll, but users can still nominate topics. Try '9' and it should limit the nominations in the contest poll only. Can you provide a screenshot with more than 10 nominations?

[matthewhotdude]

I did in my other post, that was with more than 10 nominations....or do you mean something else?

[matthewhotdude]

This is it with it set at 9

Does that look correct?

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

I did in my other post, that was with more than 10 nominations....or do you mean something else?

CHANGE CURRENT SETTINGS for "max topics in polls" to '9'.

Provide a screenshot with more than 10 nominations so I can help you debug.

[matthewhotdude]

I have set it to 9 and provided a screen shot with it at 9 above.

when you say a screen shot of 10 nominations, Do you mean of the poll page?

[princeedward]

Tried it to my site for postbit_legacy setup...looks good at the moment but i'm gonna observe it first if it's gonna work till the end...got my screenshots below coz i place it far right inside the post message....also created new nominated post/topic seal for

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This might also bigger and easy for a nominated thread,topic or post to recognize... hope some of our friends here find it also nice and good to use it also...

thanks and best regards to all...

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