Poll: community voting
Last modified: November 9, 2009 - 03:05
The Poll core module lets you create simple polls. You ask a question, provide possible answers, and let your users vote. Drupal then keeps a running tally of the results.
When you create a poll, you can also specify the "base" vote counts (how many votes an item has at the start) and decide how long the voting will run.
You can enable the polls module on the modules page (administer >> modules).
The poll item in the navigation menu will take users to a page where they can see all of the current polls, vote on them (if they haven't already) and view the results.
On the access control page (administer >> access control) you can decide which users have permission to vote, to see the voting results, and to create polls of their own.
You can
- view the polls page.
- administer >> settings >> content types >> poll.
Strange poll behavior
I have a basic poll on my site www.thePRguy.com. It is exhibiting strange and erratic behavior:
1. At lease some (if not all) unregistered users cannot submit a vote, even though it appears to "take." Worse, on every new page to which a visitor navigates, the poll is presented again, ready for a fresh vote.
2. After submitting a vote, a different apparently random content page loads, so far, either the catalog or a product page from my Amazon store (http://www.theprguy.com/amazon_store) or my Twitter feed (http://www.theprguy.com/aggregator/sources/3)
Brilliant solutions welcomed!
Still need help!
Does any have an idea how I might solve this problem?
Poll Choices Not Showing Up
I have a Drupal 6 site, all modules and core are up to date. I just attempted to enable and use the poll feature and have run into a problem. The poll creation page works, let's me enter the poll title and as many choices as I want. When the poll is posted (or previewed) the choices do not show up. If I go back to edit the poll, all of the choices are still there, they just don't show up in the node when it's displayed nor is there a vote button.
I looked at the page source for the node and the choices are not there, so they're not being hidden by css or anything of that nature.
Does anyone have an idea on why this might happen? The rest of the site appears to be working properly, but I'd really love to be able to add polls to the site.
Thanks!