Competitions for XenForo [Deleted]

[Chris D]

Well, sort of.

You could add them to a special user group and then not allow that use group to enter subsequent competitions.

Adding them to that user group is a manual process though.

 

[James]

Well, sort of.

You could add them to a special user group and then not allow that use group to enter subsequent competitions.

Adding them to that user group is a manual process though.

Would it not be possible to update their usergroup at the point a winner is declared (and subsequent alert is sent)? Not saying it's something you should add but if someone wanted to extend the add-on and add this option.

EDIT: For anyone interested - https://xenforo.com/community/threads/change-user-group-via-php.42233/page-3#post-1031392

 

[Chris D]

Would be simple enough to do, yeah.

 

[Steverino]

Hello. It's been a year since an update version. Does this work in xf 1.5.4 or newer?

 

[Chris D]

Yes it does

 

[Steverino]

Thank you for your fast reply! Does it work in any way other than a quiz? i.e. a voting system for images or anything

 

[Chris D]

No, unfortunately.

Similar things have been suggested before, though.

 

[Steverino]

Thank you for your hard work on this module. Since the winner(s) are selected by Rand, I imagine that's based upon a random selection of CORRECT answers.
Is there a limit to the number of images that can accompany a contest?

 

[justinhowe]

I'm having a bit of trouble finding where the winners are displayed for the board admin. All I see is a "The winners will be contacted to arrange delivery...", but I'm pretty sure in the video you showed a screen that displayed the winners. Also it would be nice to know who enters each competition before it's over.

Where do I go to see the winners? Here's what I see as board admin:



EDIT: nevermind, found the competitions archive section. Hate how XenForo disables the nav dropdown menu for a section you're on.

 

[Chris D]

You need to look at the "Competitions Archive". If you don't see it, you may not have permission to.

 

[justinhowe]

You need to look at the "Competitions Archive". If you don't see it, you may not have permission to.

Thanks, I found that after I made the post and instead of deleting the post added an "EDIT" section in case anybody else came across that. Does what I need

Last question, since on my board these aren't really competitions but rather giveaways, I'd like to rename it as such. Is there a relatively quick way of doing that? I've been looking for the template that houses the navTab title to at least name that to "Giveaways", and this crossed my mind (also, where is that xen:navigation declaration? I found the breadcrumbs but not the main nav title. Trying to rename it via jQuery but there must be an order of operations issue when I add the custom js as a require statement from either navigation or footer since the title doesn't change).

 

[Chris D]

Go to Admin CP > Appearance > Search Phrase: search for phrases containing the next "competition".

There'll be a lot of them but edit each one, change the text and save.

 

[justinhowe]

Go to Admin CP > Appearance > Search Phrase: search for phrases containing the next "competition".

There'll be a lot of them but edit each one, change the text and save.

Thanks, I understand that. Just wondering if there was a quicker way I didn't see in options (or perhaps doing a find/replace all within files from Sublime Text, etc).

If you could just tell me where the navigation title is declared that would be great. My jQuery to rename it works fine in dev console but doesn't make an affect when called as a require resource from navigation or footer.

 

[Chris D]

It will be the avforums_competitions phrase, I suspect.

 

[justinhowe]

It will be the avforums_competitions phrase, I suspect.

Wow, didn't even know there was a "phrases" section. Two months into XF and still haven't seen everything. Thanks.

 

[kontrabass]

My first giveaway has just ended, and it seems like I've lost the Terms and Conditions that I had entered, when the giveaway was live ( /competitions/terms ). Is this intended? Or am I losing my mind? Hahaha. I need to be able to go back and reference the terms, to make sure that we excluded Canada (winner is Canadian), but it's blank now...

 

[Chris D]

Certainly not intended.

@Stuart Wright has this ever happened to you guys or is kontrabass here actually losing his mind?

 

[Stuart Wright]

Certainly not intended.

@Stuart Wright has this ever happened to you guys or is kontrabass here actually losing his mind?

Yes. Once only (in how many years?) We lost the T&Cs, we think when someone with competition admin rights went into the T&Cs page and accidentally and unknowingly wiped the contents of the box.
This is just a complete guess as there is no way (other than there being a bug) which it could happen.
For this reason we have limited access to me and Vicki.
Luckily we had the T&Cs on our sandbox so a quick C+P restored them. Or we'd have tried waybackmachine as a last resort.

 

[kontrabass]

Certainly not intended.

@Stuart Wright has this ever happened to you guys or is kontrabass here actually losing his mind?

The thing is, I remember users complaining that the terms said the contest was for US-only

Yes. Once only (in how many years?) We lost the T&Cs, we think when someone with competition admin rights went into the T&Cs page and accidentally and unknowingly wiped the contents of the box.
This is just a complete guess as there is no way (other than there being a bug) which it could happen.
For this reason we have limited access to me and Vicki.
Luckily we had the T&Cs on our sandbox so a quick C+P restored them. Or we'd have tried waybackmachine as a last resort.

Interesting. Only I (per-user permission) have any kind of competitions - staff permissions. I'm pretty sure I didn't wipe them

 

[Chris D]

Or we'd have tried waybackmachine as a last resort.

That's a good suggestion for @kontrabass

Stuart and I have been discussing Competitions so when I next get back into it, I'll double check there's no bugs which can cause this.