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What this mod does
It adds a "Topic Of The Week/Month" nomination system to your community.
What is Topic Of The Week/Month?
Topic of the Week/Month is a contest that select posts on which your community can commit to as a group and then comment/discuss on them during the course of the selected week/month. Any listed topic (post, thread) is eligible for the Topic of the Week/Month selection.
What determines a Topic Of The Week/Month?
Topic Of The Week/Month is based on a simple nomination system. Throughout the selected forums, members with adequate permissions can nominate their favorite topic by clicking on the award nomination button below the post.
The five topics with the most votes during the course of the week/month are automatically displayed on a nomination thread including a poll feature. At the end of the week/month, the first three topics with the most votes are the award winners of the contest.
Features:
Version 1.3
Nominated posts titles hot linked in the poll to actual thread/post of the forum
Update in version 1.1
Update in version 1.22
It adds a "Topic Of The Week/Month" nomination system to your community.
What is Topic Of The Week/Month?
Topic of the Week/Month is a contest that select posts on which your community can commit to as a group and then comment/discuss on them during the course of the selected week/month. Any listed topic (post, thread) is eligible for the Topic of the Week/Month selection.
What determines a Topic Of The Week/Month?
Topic Of The Week/Month is based on a simple nomination system. Throughout the selected forums, members with adequate permissions can nominate their favorite topic by clicking on the award nomination button below the post.
The five topics with the most votes during the course of the week/month are automatically displayed on a nomination thread including a poll feature. At the end of the week/month, the first three topics with the most votes are the award winners of the contest.
Features:
- Uses AJAX technology.
- Uses one query per show thread page
- Fully phrased to allow (language translation) (addition v 1.3)
- Places an easy to use "Nominate Post" button next to the edit button
- Automatically create a nomination thread for discussions on nominees
- Displays a varying nomination stamps on posts that have been nominated for the contest. The color of the nomination stamps varies depending on how many users have nominated the post. (addition v 1.2)
- Displays an award winner stamp op award winner posts at the end of the Topic Of The Week/Month contest. (addition v 1.2)
- Via postbit pop-up, displays link to find all nominations or nominees made by a user (addition v 1.35)
- Via postbit pop-up, allows selected usergroups (e.g. Moderators or SuperModerators) can withdraw all user’s nominees from all posts (addition v 1.2) or to remove all current nominations on a given user (addition v 1.35)
- Option to select the maximum number of topics that must be displayed in the poll (addition v 1.2)
- Option to take or not into account for nomination only posts made during the month preceding the nomination cycle time (addition v 1.2)
- Option to consider the maximum number of posts a user can nominate per cycle time (addition v 1.2)
- Nominated posts titles hot linked in the poll to actual thread/post of the forum. Links displaying on the same page (No. popups) (addition v 1.3)
- Automatically closes the nomination thread at end of the contest cycle time (weekly/monthly)
- Quick link to nomination thread via the "Quick Navigation" menu
- Quick link to award winners page via the "Quick Navigation" menu (addition v.1.1)
- Automatically update the nomination poll whenever a post is nominated or withdraw from the contest.
- Separate looks for postbit and postbit_legacy
- Places all post nominees in one small box
- Displays award winners in one small box
- Quick link to nomination thread via the "small box" on the thread page
- Option to allow award winners to re-enter the contest after X days
- Users cannot nominate the same post twice
- Option to not allow users to nominate their own post
- Counts nominees submitted by a user
- Counts how many times a nominee is submitted
- Shows how many nominees a user submitted in every post of his
- Shows info in member's profile
- Option to search for posts nominated by a user
- Option to search for all nominated posts
- Administrator can withdraw all nominees of a single post
- Selected usergroups (e.g. Moderators or SuperModerators) can withdraw all nominees of a single post (addition v 1.10)
- Users can withdraw their own nominee
- Option to disable the mod on selected forums
- Option to disable the mod on all but the first post of a thread
- Option to disable the mod on all but the first post of a thread in specific forums
- Option to enable/disable view of nomination date on specific or all forums
- Option to add to post count when someone nominate a post.
- Option to give reputation points to the user whose post is nominated.
- Option to ban selected usergroups from using the mod
- Option to ban selected users from using the mod
- Option to display user’s nomination statistics on postbit (addition v 1.10)
- Option not to display nomination statistics on postbit for selected users (addition v 1.10)
- Option to display or not the hall of fame link in Quick-Links (addition v 1.3)
- Option to select forums on which nominations must be considered (addition v 1.35)
- Hall of fame re-designed to handle a Top 10 award winners, all time cumulated (addition v 1.3)
- Option to refresh the poll thread if for some reason a post referenced in the poll came to be deleted (addition v 1.3)
- Option to use the current week number or month, or the next week number or month, in the contest title (addition v 1.3)
- Option for archiving nominations in the "Nomination Thread" automatically whenever a user nominate a post. (addition v 1.35)
Version 1.3
- Uncompress the archive
- Upload the content of the "upload" folder into your forum root directory
- Import the "product_nominate_topic.xml" product via your ACP:
ACP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Product -> Add/Import Product (Allow Overwrite if you are upgrading) - Adjust the mod settings as you see fit.
Specify the Forum ID that will receive nomination threads. Also specify the User ID of the nomination thread owner.
ACP -> vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options -> Nominate Topic Mod - Save the specified settings
- ACP -> Scheduled Tasks -> Scheduled Task Manager
Nominate Weekly Or Monthly Topic Mod -> Run Now
Nominated posts titles hot linked in the poll to actual thread/post of the forum
Update in version 1.1
- Postbit_legacy fixed
- Quick link to award winners page via the "Quick Navigation" menu
- Selected usergroups (e.g. Moderators or SuperModerators) can withdraw all nominees of a single post
- Option to display user’s nomination statistics on postbit
- Option not to display nomination statistics on postbit for selected users
- Small bugs fixed
- Tested on vB 3.7.0 and vB 3.7.2
- Working on vB 3.6.8 and above
- Displays a varying nomination stamps on posts that have been nominated for the contest. The color of the nomination stamps varies depending on how many users have nominated the post. (addition v 1.2)
- Displays an award winner stamp op award winner posts at the end of the Topic Of The Week/Month contest. (addition v 1.2)
- Via postbit pop-up, displays link to find all nominations made by a user (addition v 1.2)
- Via postbit pop-up, allows selected usergroups (e.g. Moderators or SuperModerators) can withdraw all user’s nominees from all posts (addition v 1.2)
- Option to select the maximum number of topics that must be displayed in the poll (addition v 1.2)
- Option to take or not into account for nomination only posts made during the month preceding the nomination cycle time (addition v 1.2)
- Option to consider the maximum number of posts a user can nominate per cycle time (addition v 1.2)
- Fix for transition to Week 28 on cron file
- Fix Unknown column error when adding a nomination.
- Few bugs on withdraw nomination
Update in version 1.22
- Fix Duplicate entry issue.
- Clean cron file
- Full phrasing for those who wish to translate it.
- Nominated posts titles hot linked in the poll to actual thread/post of the forum. Links displaying on the same page (No. popups) (addition v 1.3)
- Option to display or not the hall of fame link in Quick-Links (addition v 1.3)
- Option to select only one forum on which nominations must be considered (addition v 1.3)
- Hall of fame re-designed to handle a Top 10 award winners, all time cumulated (addition v 1.3)
- Option to refresh the poll thread if for some reason a post referenced in the poll came to be deleted (addition v 1.3)
- Option to use the current week number or month, or the next week number or month, in the contest title (addition v 1.3)
- Fully phrased to allow language translation (addition v 1.3)
- Cron file up-to-date
- Option to select forums on which nominations must be considered
- Option for archiving nominations in the “Nomination Thread†automatically.
- Fortnightly cycle time added
- Fully phrased to allow language translation (addition v 1.35)
- Few reported bugs fixed