I've read through most of the drupal voting modules but before I get my hands dirty testing I'd like to ask advice for the following voting task.
- Voting is going to happen at a real life convention/event.
- 150 plus attendees at event need to vote and will pre register with my site.
- I have site members who will not attend the event and can not let them vote.
- I have two groups of attendees (and site members) each have multiple awards to be voted upon, by all attendees.
- Every attendee will have a profile page so that there identifiable with picture and links to there own site(s) for more info. I already have site access control defined for dividing up the main two groups of attendees.
- Every attendee can only vote for one person for each award. It's a 3 day event, I hope to set this up so they can go back and change there vote.
- Results of votes have to be hidden. Winners will be announced at a real award ceremony.
I'm sure Views, CCK, Voting API will all be part of this. I'll have to test the other voting module out.
If I can't pull this off in my Drupal 5.x site we'll have to do this vote on paper like we've done in previous years.
Anybody want to speed me up with a quick pointer to which combo of modules can handle this task OR stop me before I kill a bunch of time trying to get this done?
Thanks, Marc
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Actually, this sounds to me more like a job for the core poll or contributed http://drupal.org/project/advpoll modules rather then the votingapi type modules.
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Thanks WorldFallz,
I've started to test polls, advpolls and the other voting modules.
Using polls and/or advpoll could work for this task but would require a massive amount of inputting on my end making it not worth it to move this vote off of paper.
Think of this like the Grammy awards, except no nominations to limit who to vote on in a last round of voting. Everyone involved (over 150 people) could win an award.
I'll try to describe what I am trying to do again:
1. We have more then 10 awards to be given out at a real life event, all attendees can vote and win awards. I want users to vote via my site instead of on paper.
2. The content being voted on is a usernode.
3. Using drupal roles and access I have to be able to limit who can vote and limit eligibility for some of the awards to specific roles.
4. Using roles I want to be able to easily add eligibility for an award to a user, ie there role adds them to a view.
5. I want to use views table to vote with or something similar. 1st columns would have profile pic, name and link to profile of person eligible for award. Other columns would have check boxes to vote for multiple awards.
6. Results can not be seen by users until the end.
Again thanks for any input.
I would love to force all 150 attendees of this event to join my site in order to vote for our events awards... but leaving the vote on paper at this point seems to be easier.
Marc
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What I decided to use
For this task I've ended up using webform module. It was the only one which let users view and change votes (submissions), restrict votes (submissions) to one per user, entering a selection list is way easier, provides help description, tallies vote and more. Only thing I could not do is create a selection list of candidates via assigning a role to candidates.
I have a bunch of other things I needed too, and this was not the absolute ideal solution but the best choice with some compromise.
Marc
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