SJ77 Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Hi I want to run a simple contest where winners over a 1 month time frame receive account credit. 1st = $50 2nd = $25 3rd = $10 Winners are ranked based on reputation over time frame (not overall reputation.) What is the best way to do this? Better yet, HOW can I do this? Thank you 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 20 minutes ago, SJ77 said: Hi I want to run a simple contest where winners over a 1 month time frame receive account credit. 1st = $50 2nd = $25 3rd = $10 Winners are ranked based on reputation over time frame (not overall reputation.) What is the best way to do this? Better yet, HOW can I do this? Thank you 🙂 Easy! Use the Leaderboard, which allows you to measure reputation over a certain time frame. You can set certain days (September 1 to September 30) and the leaderboard will auto update. The other nice thing is that it's public, so anybody can view the results as your contest is ongoing.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ77 Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 1 minute ago, Joel R said: Easy! Use the Leaderboard, which allows you to measure reputation over a certain time frame. You can set certain days (September 1 to September 30) and the leaderboard will auto update. The other nice thing is that it's public, so anybody can view the results as your contest is ongoing.  I can set custom time frames for the leader board and make the custom time frame publicly available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 You or any user can set custom time frames. You can test right now on the IPS community or your own.  I doubt it'll save though. You may want to check the Leaderboard settings in the ACP. By default, it runs on a daily basis.  If you're running a contest, you're probably going to post announcements with weekly updates anyways.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ77 Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 Do you know if I can exclude certain user groups from being ranked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriano Faria Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 You can disable reputation for specific groups (reputation settings) and/or you can exclude some groups from showing up on Laeaderboard (leaderboard setting). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Yeah that was something new they added afterwards. You gotta disable your admins and staff groups, etc.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ77 Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 I have groups that need reputation but I don't want them to be part of the contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, SJ77 said: I have groups that need reputation but I don't want them to be part of the contest. I know. Sorry should have clarified (and it's what Adriano said in his latter half). You can exclude certain groups from appearing on the Leaderboard. But they still receive reputation.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ77 Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 This should actually be me clarifying. I have groups that need to be on the leader board. (They use it all the time). I just want them excluded from my contest results. IS that possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Oh, can't you just ... Ignore them for purposes of your contest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ77 Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 37 minutes ago, Joel R said: Oh, can't you just ... Ignore them for purposes of your contest? Leaderboard shows trophies for top 3. I would like to setup a custom contest report that excludes certain groups but not effect the regular leaderboard stuffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 This widget does that as well: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ77 Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 @opentype That widget will allow me to run my contest by showing custom timeframe and also exclude specific groups? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel R Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 The only other thing that I can think of is to check the Statistics module in the ACP. You can set custom time frames. The only downside is that it won't show on front-end and you'll need to publish results manually.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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