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Vote Up/Down 5.x installation documentation:
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Author - Ron Williams ron at ronsnexus dot com
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Requires - Drupal 5
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License - GPL (see LICENSE)
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Requirements:
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You will need to download the following items:
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* Vote Up/Down Package http://drupal.org/project/vote_up_down
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* Links Package http://drupal.org/project/links
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(only needed with storylink module)
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* Voting API http://drupal.org/project/votingapi
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To be able to automatically promote story links that have a specified
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number of votes to the front page you also need to download these:
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* Actions http://drupal.org/project/actions
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* Voting Actions http://drupal.org/project/voting_actions
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Recommended but not required modules:
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* Views http://drupal.org/project/views (for creating customized views
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of content)
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* User Points http://drupal.org/project/userpoints (if you wish to
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have users awarded points for submitting content or voting)
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* Content Recommedation Engine http://drupal.org/project/cre
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(to recommend nodes and users to other user bases on the voting.
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Use query type "VotingAPI Point System Query".)
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Step By Step Installation for front page automatic promotion:
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01) Extract all files from the archives above.
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02) Upload the vote up/down, links, votingapi, actions, voting_actions,
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views, and userpoints directories to your modules directory.
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03) In a web browser goto SITE_URL/admin/build/modules (SITE_URL being the url
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for the drupal install) while logged in.
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04) Enable the modules below:
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* actions
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* links
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* userpoints
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* views
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* vote_storylink
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* vote_up_down
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* voting_actions
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* votingapi
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When you later update these, and other, modules remember to run
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SITE_URL/update.php. With Drupal 4.7 and later modules as well as core
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Drupal can make use up the databas update function.
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05) Goto SITE_URL/admin/user/access and enable the following items
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* userpoints module (if enabled)
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* view userpoints (anonymous and authenticated)
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* vote_storylink module
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* create storylinks (authenticated, only if you wish to allow your
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users to create there own storylinks for voting)
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* edit own storylinks (authenticated, only if you wish to allow your
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users to edit there own storylinks)
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* vote_up_down module
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* use up-down vote (authenticated)
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* view up-down vote (anonymous and authenticated)
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06) Goto SITE_URL/admin/build/actions and click list (this allows the actions
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module to detect available actions).
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07) Goto SITE_URL/admin/content/types/storylink
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* Uncheck under workflow "promoted to front page"
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08) Goto SITE_URL/admin/settings/vote_up_down
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* Under types, check storylink.
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* Under Vote widget settings for nodes, in the field below "Vote widget
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display", select disabled.
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* Under Vote widget settings for comments, in the "Vote widget display"
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and "Link display of vote points", select do not display for both.
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09) Goto SITE_URL/admin/settings/userpoints
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* To enable credit for just voting and creating storylinks, enter the
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amounts you wish to give for them in the below fields.
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* "Points for posting a story link" and "Points for voting on a node
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(requires the Vote up/down module)".
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10) Goto SITE_URL/admin/settings/voting_actions
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* Under action set name, enter in a field "Promote node to front page"
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then press save.
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* Select edit and enter the following:
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- select points under value type
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- enter vote under tag
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- enter sum under function
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- select is greater than under comparison
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- enter the required number for front page promotion
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- under action select "Promote node to front page" and click save
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- under action select "Award userpoints from..." and click save
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See also screenshot
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"documentation/voting_actions_examples/Promote_to_front_page.png"
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11) Goto SITE_URL/admin/settings/voting_actions
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* Under action set name, enter in a field other than promote node to
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front page, "demote node from front page" then press save.
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* Select edit and enter the following:
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- select points under value type
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- enter vote under tag
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- enter sum under function
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- select is less than under comparison
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- enter the required number for front page demotion
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- under action select "Remove node from front page" and click save
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- under action select "Deduct userpoints from..." and click save
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See also screenshot
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"documentation/voting_actions_examples/Demote_from_front_page.png"
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12) Upload node-storylink.tpl.php and template.php to the directory
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of your theme (if you already have template.php, you will have to
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combine them).
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OBS! When using "node-storylink.tpl.php" you must turn off
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"Vote widget display..." in "admin/settings/vote_up_down" to avoid
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getting double voting widgets.
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And You're done.
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Last updated:
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$Id: INSTALL.txt,v 1.5 2007/06/07 23:39:22 frjo Exp $
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