Poll Plugin

A plugin to handle Polls:

• all votes are attached at the end of the topic (you can edit them if you need to)
• you can do multiple votes (e.g. vote your 3 preferred items)
• you get a true "automatic votes count"
• each user can change his/her mind and vote again

• only last vote of each user's counts
• you can select the allowed voters with (ALLOW/DENY)TOPICVOTE

See: Poll Example or Smilies Poll [ there is some bad interaction between Table Plugin and the table in this page ]

How to vote:

• add a FORM to your topic, with action=".../poll/%WEB%/%TOPIC%"
• each vote is appended to the topic as a table row:

| <date> | <user> | item1 | item2 | ... |

Tags introduced:

You can change the format of the items and tables produced ... see Smilies Poll.

Installation

• Unzip PollPlugin.zip in your twiki installation dir.
• in the bin directory, add poll among the protected scripts (i.e. modify the .htaccess file so that poll is protected the same way save is)

Plugin Settings

• Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = A plugin to collect votes (Polls)

TODO

• add parameters to the above tags
  • a deadline (only votes before date X are valid)
  • do separate counts for multiple votes (one for each column collected)

-- Andrea Sterbini? - 23 Nov 2001