@Jazzman: is it possible to CLOSE a Poll? - so that no one is able to vote on it anymore?
I've noticed, that even if I close the DISCUSSION the poll is in, new people can still go in and vote! I would like to be able to close the poll, so that everyone viewing the discussion will only see the RESULT of the voting!...
Hey, love the extension.
I'm trying to integrate this into a site that wants to use it for ACTUAL elections for a group. Thus, a few things I would want are not yet implemented. I'm willing to do the work, I just need a bit of direction on how to accomplish it.
1) Don't display results until the poll is closed. Simply put a "thank you for voting" message up in the grey box, no bar graph, and then show the results as normal when the poll is closed.
2) Write in candidates. This one is the real killer, allowing users to select a third option, Other, that includes an inline input box for users to insert their own option. This does NOT create a new option for everyone to vote on, it simply leaves a list of inputs for the poll administrator to see.
Any ideas on how to do this? The first I can probably band-aid with some css trickery if I have to, but the second I'm going to need some pointers on.
Having a weird problem. Perhaps someone can duplicate or explain...
Admin created 4 discussions, each with a poll attached, set it to show for both members and administrators. Everything worked well, members could vote. Admin went into each poll and removed "administrators" from the ability to vote. Now, Admin could not even see the poll on each discussion. He could no longer edit it, even though he has privileges to modify polls. The checkbox within the poll circumvented the whole system.
In our situation, only members can vote, but Admins set up the polls for them to vote on.
Is this desired behavior and we just need to have Admin abstain on every poll? (by clicking the "turn off" message) Or does anyone have pointers on how to resolve this one?
@Jazzman: please, do not forget to introduce the ability to CLOSE a poll! :-)
I also noticed, that in your to-do list for this extension, you have planned to introduce automatic 'closing dates' for polls - that would be wonderful, indeed!
@ sourceV & davidh :
i had problems with members who couldn't see the poll in the side bar, after i changed roles of admin users. some how the change turned off the preference :
[] Show active Poll in Panel (in forum prefs)
in order to resolve this problem i added the following line in the preferences column for all users (in the database):
a:1:{s:14:"ShowActivePoll";i:1;}
this is not applicable for users who have more preferences in this cell
@jazzman: can it be a bug?
How can I set it so that the default preference for showing the Poll in the panel is off? Out of the box, the default is that everyone's pref for seeing the poll in the panel is on, but I can't find where I need to change this...
Here is my french translation of "/Poll/conf/language.php" file :
<?php
// Language Dictionary
$Context->SetDefinition('ExtensionOptions', 'Options de l\'Extensions');
$Context->SetDefinition('PollManagement', 'Gestion de Sondage');
$Context->SetDefinition('Polls', 'Sondages');
$Context->SetDefinition('ShowActivePoll', 'Afficher les sondages actifs dans le panneau');
$Context->SetDefinition('GetPollToEdit', '1. Selectionner le sondage à éditer');
$Context->SetDefinition('ModifyPollDefinition', '2. Modifier le titre du sondage');
$Context->SetDefinition('DefineNewPoll', 'Définir le nouveau sondage');
$Context->SetDefinition('CreateNewPoll', 'Créer un nouveau sondage');
$Context->SetDefinition('PollRemoved', 'Le sondage a été effacé.');
$Context->SetDefinition('PollSaved', 'Vos modifications ont été enregistrées.');
$Context->SetDefinition('NewPollSaved', 'Le sondage a été créé avec succès.');
$Context->SetDefinition('PollReorderNotes', 'Glissez/déposez les sondages ci-dessous pour les réorganiser. Leur nouvel ordre sera automatiquement enregistré. Le sondage du haut sera affiché dans le panneau.');
$Context->SetDefinition('PollName', 'Nom du sondage');
$Context->SetDefinition('PollNameNotes', 'Le nom du sondage sera le titre ou la question de votre sondage. Le Html n\'est pas autorisé.');
$Context->SetDefinition('RolesInPoll', 'Rôles autorisés à participer à ce sondage');
$Context->SetDefinition('AddVoteOptions', 'Ajouter des choix de réponse');
$Context->SetDefinition('AddVoteOptionsNotes', 'Ajouter les choix de réponse qui peuvent être sélectionné par le votant. Vous pouvez changer le résultat actuel des votes et cela sera pris en compte dans le décompte total des votes. Le Html n\'est pas autorisé.');
$Context->SetDefinition('VoteOption', 'Choix de réponse');
$Context->SetDefinition('VoteCount', 'Décompte des votes');
$Context->SetDefinition('AddPollData', 'Ajouter un choix de réponse');
$Context->SetDefinition('PollNameLower', 'nom du sondage');
$Context->SetDefinition('VoteOptionLower', 'choix de réponse');
$Context->SetDefinition('Vote', 'Vote');
$Context->SetDefinition('TotalVotes', 'Total des Votes');
$Context->SetDefinition('AddPollToDiscussion', 'Ajouter un sondage à cette discussion');
$Context->SetDefinition('EditPollDiscussion', 'éditer le Sondage de cette discussion');
$Context->SetDefinition('DeletePollDiscussion', 'éffacer le sondage de cette discussion');
$Context->SetDefinition('ErrPollNotFound', 'Le sondage demandé n\'a put être trouvé.');
$Context->SetDefinition('ErrInstallExtension', 'Une erreur est apparue durant l\'installation.');
$Context->SetDefinition('ErrAlreadyVoted', 'Vous avez déjà voté pour ce sondage.');
$Context->SetDefinition('PERMISSION_POLL_MANAGEMENT', 'Gestion des Sondage');
$Context->SetDefinition('PERMISSION_ADD_POLL', 'Ajouter un Sondage');
// Version 1.2 dictionary
$Context->SetDefinition('PollNotification', 'Il y a un sondage disponible auquel vous devriez participer : //1');
$Context->SetDefinition('TurnOff', 'Désactiver');
$Context->SetDefinition('TurnOffPollNotifications', 'Désactiver les notifications de sondage');
// Version 1.3 dictionary
$Context->SetDefinition('PERMISSION_CHANGE_POLL_RESULTS', 'Modifier les résultats du sondage');
?>
Jazzman, maybe could you include it in the zip file ? Thank you for this extension (and the others !)
@Jazzman: just a quick reminder, that some of us do need to be able to CLOSE A POLL! :-)
The closing of a poll could be done:
1) manually
2) when the discussion the poll appears in is closed (in general, it is odd to have a closed discussion with the poll still open for votes!)
3) automatically:
a) by a certain date
b) when a minimum number of votes is received
Please, please, please!....
OT: I keep getting taken to the first page of this discussion when I click on it from the "Bookmarks" in the control panel on the left. I have the "Take me to the last unread comment" option enabled which appears to be working for other discussions. Anyone else getting this problem?
Oh, I've just realised that the links on the control panel aren't actually setup to take you to the last comment, even though I have that option setup. Well that sucks! Time to put in a feature request for this as it's not "expected behaviour" IMO.
I have added this extension, but I don't see it appearing in my side panel.
UPDATE: I finally figured out it was a user forum preference setting. This took a while to figure out, I guess I'm dense. Seems to me the admin should be able to set this globally for all users...
Are all active polls supposed to randomly render in my sidebar? If so mine is not working. If not, could that feature be added? It would be great if my users got a random poll inside the sidebar each time they pull up a page.
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<?php // Language Dictionary $Context->SetDefinition('ExtensionOptions', 'Options de l\'Extensions'); $Context->SetDefinition('PollManagement', 'Gestion de Sondage'); $Context->SetDefinition('Polls', 'Sondages'); $Context->SetDefinition('ShowActivePoll', 'Afficher les sondages actifs dans le panneau'); $Context->SetDefinition('GetPollToEdit', '1. Selectionner le sondage à éditer'); $Context->SetDefinition('ModifyPollDefinition', '2. Modifier le titre du sondage'); $Context->SetDefinition('DefineNewPoll', 'Définir le nouveau sondage'); $Context->SetDefinition('CreateNewPoll', 'Créer un nouveau sondage'); $Context->SetDefinition('PollRemoved', 'Le sondage a été effacé.'); $Context->SetDefinition('PollSaved', 'Vos modifications ont été enregistrées.'); $Context->SetDefinition('NewPollSaved', 'Le sondage a été créé avec succès.'); $Context->SetDefinition('PollReorderNotes', 'Glissez/déposez les sondages ci-dessous pour les réorganiser. Leur nouvel ordre sera automatiquement enregistré. Le sondage du haut sera affiché dans le panneau.'); $Context->SetDefinition('PollName', 'Nom du sondage'); $Context->SetDefinition('PollNameNotes', 'Le nom du sondage sera le titre ou la question de votre sondage. Le Html n\'est pas autorisé.'); $Context->SetDefinition('RolesInPoll', 'Rôles autorisés à participer à ce sondage'); $Context->SetDefinition('AddVoteOptions', 'Ajouter des choix de réponse'); $Context->SetDefinition('AddVoteOptionsNotes', 'Ajouter les choix de réponse qui peuvent être sélectionné par le votant. Vous pouvez changer le résultat actuel des votes et cela sera pris en compte dans le décompte total des votes. Le Html n\'est pas autorisé.'); $Context->SetDefinition('VoteOption', 'Choix de réponse'); $Context->SetDefinition('VoteCount', 'Décompte des votes'); $Context->SetDefinition('AddPollData', 'Ajouter un choix de réponse'); $Context->SetDefinition('PollNameLower', 'nom du sondage'); $Context->SetDefinition('VoteOptionLower', 'choix de réponse'); $Context->SetDefinition('Vote', 'Vote'); $Context->SetDefinition('TotalVotes', 'Total des Votes'); $Context->SetDefinition('AddPollToDiscussion', 'Ajouter un sondage à cette discussion'); $Context->SetDefinition('EditPollDiscussion', 'éditer le Sondage de cette discussion'); $Context->SetDefinition('DeletePollDiscussion', 'éffacer le sondage de cette discussion'); $Context->SetDefinition('ErrPollNotFound', 'Le sondage demandé n\'a put être trouvé.'); $Context->SetDefinition('ErrInstallExtension', 'Une erreur est apparue durant l\'installation.'); $Context->SetDefinition('ErrAlreadyVoted', 'Vous avez déjà voté pour ce sondage.'); $Context->SetDefinition('PERMISSION_POLL_MANAGEMENT', 'Gestion des Sondage'); $Context->SetDefinition('PERMISSION_ADD_POLL', 'Ajouter un Sondage'); // Version 1.2 dictionary $Context->SetDefinition('PollNotification', 'Il y a un sondage disponible auquel vous devriez participer : //1'); $Context->SetDefinition('TurnOff', 'Désactiver'); $Context->SetDefinition('TurnOffPollNotifications', 'Désactiver les notifications de sondage'); // Version 1.3 dictionary $Context->SetDefinition('PERMISSION_CHANGE_POLL_RESULTS', 'Modifier les résultats du sondage'); ?>Jazzman, maybe could you include it in the zip file ? Thank you for this extension (and the others !)
Jazzman, you realize that if this were a Poll 1.3 poll we'd never stop voting for you to do more work...
Oh, I've just realised that the links on the control panel aren't actually setup to take you to the last comment, even though I have that option setup. Well that sucks! Time to put in a feature request for this as it's not "expected behaviour" IMO.