Per-category feature: poll
leiger wrote on 07 Mar 2010 03:41
James Kanjo has created a very useful imitation of a poll over at his Polls @ Wikidot site, but what we need is a new feature designed specifically for the task.
The idea
- This works similarly to Data Forms, in that it is part of the page, and not a module!
- Only logged-in Wikidot users will be allowed to vote on a poll, but anyone that can create a page can create a poll.
The real power of this module:
- Polls should be set up per category, in the same way as auto-numbering is set up (site manager)
- When a page is created in that category, the usual contents appear as usual (whether that be a Data Form or normal source code box), and the poll settings appear below that.
- ListPages support: %%poll_title%%, %%poll_option{1}%%, %%poll_option{2}%%, …
Use cases:
- This allows us to then have a poll category, with one poll per page, and use NewPage module to create polls
- This also means that in wiki-based forums, the thread category can have polls enabled so that polls can be added to the first post of a thread.
When creating a new page
-- Data Form / Source Code editing --
+ Add a poll to this page
Title: [________________________]
Allow more than one option to be selected? [ No ][▼]
Number of days before poll is locked? [ 0 ]
(0 = never locked)
Options:
* [___________] » remove
* [___________] » remove
» add new option
Site manager Poll settings
For each category with polls enabled:
- Does the poll appear ABOVE or BELOW the source code box / data form ?
- Maximum number of options for each poll (default: 5 ?)
- Allow wiki syntax in poll title? [ Yes ][▼]
- Allow wiki syntax in option labels? [ Yes ][▼]
- Show which users voted for which option? [ No ][▼]
Site manager Permissions
Ability to decide which users have permissions to create/edit/delete a poll:
- The poll form doesn't appear for people that don't have permission to create them
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page revision: 4, last edited: 07 Mar 2010 06:18