Permissions in pollfield

Permissions inherited from CCK

Pollfield module inherits a very rich set of permissions from CCK module. You can set those permissions in admin/user/permissions menu. Every field created in CCK module can be edited and viewed. Through this framework you can set how every user role will behave in accessing at each CCK field. For example some roles can only view a field but are not allowed to edit it. On the other hand some roles can both edit and view a certain field. You control the permissions by ckecking the check box which belongs to the desired field.

Permissions in Pollfield field

Global permission view results

Pollfield has only one permission which strictly belongs to pollfield. It is view results. This permission determines who can see results of a poll and who can not. Each field has its own permission. Basically, there is a list of all CCK fields where user can choose which poll results can be seen by each user role defined in Drupal.
Global permission effects all polls which have the same field type (for example field_poll).

Local permission view results

This permission (Results) is set in edit menu of content under the pollfield settings. This option allows users to see or not to see results before voting on a poll. But if user can not see results determine by global permission this local permission will not have any effect. So, global permission is stronger than local permission. For example if you want that user can see results before voting you have to check global permission for that field type and in addition set the local permission to "Allow" specific just for this poll.

Notes:

Important notice about the behaviour for anonymous users. Under the anonymous voting setting (pollfield setting) anonymous voting policy can be set to "Allowed". This means that there is no restriction on anonymous user voting and there is no record which anonymous user did vote. In that case we can not say if user voted or not. So if you choose to not show results (Results=>Disallow) before a user has voted anonymous users will not see results at all. Of course, pollfield provide two different methods for knowing which user has voted. More about that in Anonymous voting policy.