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.

[radiofranky]

is there a way to show the result in the topic listing? Currently is showing within the thread and I was wondering if is possible to move it a level up - to the topic listing page.

thanks

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Hateman

Hi,

yes the same problem. But im not sure about the problem. I send you a private message with a link about it, is it okay?

I only provide support through the official thread. If you have a question ask it here so others can chime in and / or benefit from seeing the answer.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by radiofranky

is there a way to show the result in the topic listing? Currently is showing within the thread and I was wondering if is possible to move it a level up - to the topic listing page.

thanks

Not sure what you mean?

[radiofranky]

which file should edit if I want to modify it to display IMAGE instead of this "1 out of 1 members found this post helpful."

I want to display simply "1029/1300 like"
current message is too long and is taking too much of real-estate.

thanks for the great plugin though.

by the way, I checked to display user rating under profile but nothing is showing up.

[Hateman]

Hi,

thats right. It dosen't work correctly with KeepAlive On on Apache Config. I checked this with KeepAlive On and Off. KeepAlive Off looks good for me but it dosn't look good with Config: On.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Hateman

Hi,

thats right. It dosen't work correctly with KeepAlive On on Apache Config. I checked this with KeepAlive On and Off. KeepAlive Off looks good for me but it dosn't look good with Config: On.

KeepAlive makes for persistent connections which alters how AJAX is rendered. How long do requests take when you have it off? The keepalive option dies after a few seconds.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by radiofranky

which file should edit if I want to modify it to display IMAGE instead of this "1 out of 1 members found this post helpful."

I want to display simply "1029/1300 like"
current message is too long and is taking too much of real-estate.

thanks for the great plugin though.

by the way, I checked to display user rating under profile but nothing is showing up.

There's a phrase for this. Search in the none dynamic part "members found this post helpful".

[radiofranky]

thanks. How can I change rating display to 5 out of 10 (20%) like it? Where can I do arithmetic divide {1}/{2}?

thanks

[The Rocketeer]

For some reason the top ten was turned on. So after disabling it and trying to run these queries

UPDATE post SET goodrank = '', totalrank = '';
DELETE FROM helpfulanswer;

we are getting this error

An error occurred while attempting to execute your query. The following information was returned.

error number: 1064
error desc: 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 'DELETE FROM helpfulanswer' at line 2

[bosken]

Installed and can?t see the ratings in the posts. I KNOW you?re supposte to enable this feature in the forums but I must be an idiot or something coz cant in my life find this option anywhere???! Any Screendump of WHERE this option is located?!?!

I do run Swedish language pack, can that be the problem? Other language?

In admincp all is on, and manual template is off. Runing vB 4.1.4 PL1

forum is here: http://harleyforum.se

Found it: But I think a screenshot or better intructions could be a good idea.

OMG I can't believe it, I was just checking my forum settings and it wasn't turned on, lol How stupid was that... I'm very sorry for that, cheers it works now.. for others you must go into your admincp - Forum & Moderators - Forum Manager, then select which forum you wish and down at the bottom click to enable, then save...