Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.Advanced Poll adds on to, or replaces, the drupal core poll module to give you more options.
Download Advanced Poll at http://drupal.org/project/advpoll. This page is in response to issue http://drupal.org/node/1041272.
Allows creation of standard or approval weighted polls with the option to create write-ins, limit by electoral list or present any poll as a block. It takes advantage of the Voting API to track votes with the option to use cookies instead of IP/Authenticated user ids.
Dependencies
Number, List, Advpoll_field, Votingapi, Date, Date_popup
Database
Creates the electoral list table, named advpoll_electoral_list, containing nid, the 'Node id for the relevant advpoll.', and uid, the 'User id who will be given access to vote in an advpoll.'.
25/12/2015 (happy xmas!)
I think that before explaining what this module does, it is better to expose what this module does not do, so people can avoid loosing days of precious time banging their heads to the wall:
0 - no manual except this page...
(https://groups.drupal.org/node/486393 https://www.drupal.org/node/1041272)
1 - Adv Poll does NOT keep your results ordered as you want, instead it orders according to the most voted answers. (this problem not happening with core poll module)
2 - It does NOT understand languages (one of the supposedly strong points of Drupal, Duh). The vote of a user does NOT get syncronized to other languages, instead the user can vote again for each translation of the same question. The same ages old problem goes for Drupal's Core Poll Module (is taking it OUT of Core for D8 the best they have come up with?).
It seems patches exist for both, but then you have to be quite advanced in Drupal and PHP to apply them or even understand what they are talking about.
http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/51513/poll-in-two-languages?rq=1
https://www.drupal.org/node/1516498
https://www.drupal.org/node/155276
3 - Write in votes have the alarm of a security issue. This is a bit contradictory isn't it?
More complicated stuff on Adv Poll at https://www.drupal.org/node/2193131
Continuing investigation.
