EXT: Quickpoll¶

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What does it do?¶

Quickpoll is a simple poll module that lets website visitors vote for one of a set of statements. When the user has voted she'll see a bar chart with the current results. In typo3 a poll consisting of a question and a set of answers can be set up. Polls can be placed anywhere on the page and can be controlled like other typo3 elements via start and end date. Users are only allowed to vote for one option and are only allowed to vote once every 30 days.

Requierements¶

Cookies must be activated on the user's browser.

A note on security¶

Users are blocked from voting more than once with the use of cookies. Note that it very easy for a savvy user to cheat and vote multiple times by removing the cookie.

LANGUAGES AVAILABLE: English, Danish

Adding a poll¶

This consists of two actions. First you insert a poll record which is where the question and the votes are stored and next you insert the quickpoll plug-in on the page where you want to display the poll.

Choose the list module

Choose the page where you want to store the poll record (can be another page than where the poll is displayed)

Click Create New Record

Choose 'poll'

Fill in the the Title, question and answer fields. Put each answer option on a seperate line

Save and close the poll record

Inserting the plug-in for display

Choose the page module in the menu

Insert a plug-in on the page where the poll should be displayed

Choose Quickpoll in the list of options

If your poll record is placed on a separate page, insert that page in the startingpoint field

Save and close

The poll is now ready for use

Managing polls¶

You can put multiple poll records on one page. Only the topmost active poll will be displayed by the plug-in. You can use this if you want to set up different polls to be displayed over a period of time. Add a number of poll records and set their start and end time accordingly – insert a plug-in that points to the page with the poll records and so the polls will be displayed one by one.

Note that an error message will be displayed if no active poll can be found.

Viewing or resetting the results¶

You can view the results in the poll record. The number of votes are added as a number next to each answer option. You can also easily reset the number of votes by simply inserting 0 instead of the number of votes.

Changing the look of the plug-in¶

The look of Quickpoll is controlled by a set of css styles. These can be changed by editing the file called ext_typoscript_setup.txt

tx_quickpoll_poll¶

The plug-in uses this one table. The fields are like this: