Feature request: Polling

[Akillian Talleyrand]

Forum URL: nsuk.proboards.com/

Can I check, it seems to be the case that if you select the option on a poll "See results after voting" people can change their votes.

On my forum, where we do election simulations, this is less than ideal as people can be changing votes up until the election is due to close, rather than just casting their ballot without knowing the result and then that's it.

Is there a plugin or anything to change the settings on a poll?

Right now we have it so people don't see the poll results until it is close but staff can still see the results. Ideally everyone should be in the same boat with regards to viewing and if they can view, you can't change your vote after making it.


I've had a bit of a conversation on this and can this be logged as a feature request, see my recent post?

[Craig]

You could possibly hide the poll after the vote has been cast, and then have it show again when the poll is locked. But this would only work on the desktop version, so anything using he mobile version would still be able to see it.

I don't know of an existing code to do this, so you can go ahead and post a request, if you would like.

support.proboards.com/board/36/request-plugin

[Akillian Talleyrand]

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the suggestion but yeah, it would still not be a universal fix.

I’ll look to make a request as I don’t think there will be any quick fix, but thought I’d check anyway!

Thanks.

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Jul 11, 2020 2:34:10 GMT -8 Akillian Talleyrand said:

Ideally everyone should be in the same boat with regards to viewing and if they can view, you can't change your vote after making it.

Hi Akillian Talleyrand

Any user who votes on a poll can change their vote at any time, until the poll is locked. I don't believe it will be possible to change that behavior.

In regards to Staff seeing poll results even on polls that are set to show results only after the poll has been locked, I've been doing some experiments on that.

It doesn't appear to be tied to the groups being 'Staff'. It does appear to be linked to the groups having the power to Lock. I'm not sure this is intended behavior. One of the ProBoards Admins will probably be able to answer that when they are in their office during normal working hours.

[Akillian Talleyrand]

Jul 11, 2020 8:17:55 GMT -8 Retread said:

Jul 11, 2020 2:34:10 GMT -8 Akillian Talleyrand said:

Ideally everyone should be in the same boat with regards to viewing and if they can view, you can't change your vote after making it.

Hi Akillian Talleyrand

Any user who votes on a poll can change their vote at any time, until the poll is locked. I don't believe it will be possible to change that behavior.

In regards to Staff seeing poll results even on polls that are set to show results only after the poll has been locked, I've been doing some experiments on that.

It doesn't appear to be tied to the groups being 'Staff'. It does appear to be linked to the groups having the power to Lock. I'm not sure this is intended behavior. One of the ProBoards Admins will probably be able to answer that when they are in their office during normal working hours.

Thanks, that's helpful!

It seems then that because we have several roles that are Global, that's why several people seem to be able to see poll results. I guess we can review who really needs the global role, but we don't want to limit the global ability to lock threads across all staff, so sounds like there isn't a quick fix if locking threads and polls is tied together.

[Akillian Talleyrand]

Hello again,

I had put in a request for a plugin but had a bit of a discussion about how viable that would be. Instead, in light of v6 being developed, could I maybe get some admin feedback on whether this issue can be requested and considered for development?

To reiterate the issue, it would be good if, on ProBoards, we could open a poll and you allow people to see the results while the poll is open, but no-one can change their vote.

Thanks.

[Scott]

Akillian Talleyrand, I've marked this thread as a Feature Request.

[Akillian Talleyrand]

Jul 13, 2020 9:15:16 GMT -8 Scott said:

Akillian Talleyrand , I've marked this thread as a Feature Request.

Thanks Scott! 

Should I expect a further reply on this or will it just be taken onboard and we'll see what happens in the future?

[Scott]

Akillian Talleyrand, if the feature is implemented in the future, it most likely will be revealed in an update thread in the Development Blog board.

[Akillian Talleyrand]

Alright, thanks! Wasn't sure if it was a "make a request, get a response" type of thing. Will look out for it in the future if anything happens.