Add a poll to your Vanilla forum

NOTE: You have to turn on Poll Management by going to your Roles & Permission section.

Version 1.3 - 06.09.2006, Jazzman
- Non discussion Polls won't show a notification anymore
- You can now remove a single poll you don't want to vote on instead of turning off the notification system
- Unauthenticated users (guests) can now see poll results if allowed
- New language definition function used (SetDefinition)
- Changing poll results now requires a role permission
- Fixed bug where it save settings file every page load
- Poll data is now sorted by PollDataID

Any reason why editing a poll re-orders the items in it?

edit: solved by upgrading to 1.3

For some reason Members do not see the poll only admin. I have checked show active poll in panel option. What am I not seeing? Thanks-

Thanks icouto but I already had that. I deleated the pole and started fresh even letting banned have access but still nothing. I looked at the permissions and such but really see no where else I could make changes. maybe a fresh install odf the whole thing. Cheers!

Is it at all possible to allow everyone to VIEW the poll, but only allow certain groups to participate in the poll? This is a huge issue right now for me because a certain roll of people on my forum vote people in, and I'd like the people trying to get in to be able to see the voting numbers, however they shouldn't be able to vote.

Is this possible with the extension or is it something completely out of it's scope?

Thanks!

I'm getting the same display problems - only admin can see it in the panel.

I'd like to be able to disable the Show Poll in Sidebar option completely and disable it for the whole forum so no polls attached to discussions are shown in the sidebar. It's unlikely that in a community for artists something like "global polls" will ever be needed.

I want to disable the poll notification on top of the page as well. When talking about contests/art battles where two images compete, that could make sense. But if someone is attaching a poll to his discussion like "do you like my picture?" or someone starts a poll to determine which gaming console is the best one (entering a starting value is absolutely useless in my opinion :( it's rather causing harm than doing any good), being notified about that might get on someone's nerves :) I'd like to check the default setting (with notifications turned on) out, but if that's just bugging I'd like to eb able to turn it off as well.

Just my 2 cents, or so :D

Is there a way to automatically show the latest poll in the sidebar so that it would become the "active" poll?

Yeah, I know that... but it would be much more convenient if the newest poll was added to the top, not the bottom of the list (as it is now). And that would solve my problem.

I installed this extention & then uninstalled it however the user permission selection bit is still there. How can I remove it?

Is it just me, or does this not work with pretty URL's at all?

I think you might have forgotten one line in the language.php file:

$Context->SetDefinition('Poll', 'Poll');

You have:
$Context->SetDefinition('Polls', 'Polls');

...but not the first one. Or atleast it was missing from my zip-file :)
Thanks a bunch for the script! :D

p.s. my first post, be gentle :P

I have major issues with Vanilla 1.3 and Firefox where the poll results are floating over the text and makes it look really messy. This happens both in the side bar and in the discussion where the poll is embedded. Works and looks great in IE7. Forum at http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/Forum if you are able to check it out.
Would really like to continue to use the poll but if I don't get this fixed it will have to come down.
Any help greatly appreciated, TIA
Huw

Good job on making this addons thought I having some prob with it.

Error return while clicking on "Add poll to this discussion" at the panel ..

404 Not Found

The requested URL /extension/12/?PostBackAction=Poll does not exist.


Im using sef on vanilla 1.1.3

[-edit-]
i found the fix Fixed SEF for poll

anyone...anyone....anyone....

Someone posted this on may forum today

I think there should be a sign on each topic with a poll should have a "[Poll]" mark. Like when a topic is closed. It says "[Closed]". If a topic with a poll is closed, then the "[poll]" mark shall disappear and become a "[Closed]" marked topic. This would help people who have their forum poll preference off know which polls to vote on and which ones bot to. Catch my drift?

I have to agree it would be rather useful

also - there are perhaps 50 active polls on there now so when new people join they are bombarded with a huge list of notifications forcing them to switch off the notification feature. Is there anything I can do to default it to off - or just disable notifications altogether

Bump. Anyone using this, and know if there is a way to capture who voted, and what they voted for in a poll????

Development of this module seems to have been abandoned.

This is a great shame, as there is no other alternative to give a poll functionality to Vanilla. It would be wonderful is someone were to take up this project, and implement the fixes and features necessary to make it current again.

Yeah, I'd like to see this continue to be developed as well.

I'm with wohoo on this one. any fix available?

How would I mod this extension to get rid of notification completely?

@fuge: thank you. Browsing through this thread, you will see that there are a few rather *major* issues with the Poll extension, which really need to be solved in order for it to be truly useful, including:

* being able to CLOSE the poll
* being able to turn off notifications

Many thanks in advance for keeping us up-to-date with what's happening with this.

this addon would be perfect if only there was the option to show/hide results without having to actually vote. could someone help me with modification?

I think we (I) just need the text to use the tool. SInce I am no a Php programer, Global Preference Setting is kinda useless. It is cool but am just a silly user....