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Re: Polls - strange usability

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> Hi,
>
> I tried to create a poll. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to start voting.
> I tried making it 'active' or 'current'... but whenever I click on the link for that poll, it just brings me to a page with red (uneditable) radio buttons.

Is the URL for your poll something like /tiki-poll_form.php?pollId=1? At that address at my sites, I see a poll ready to be voted on. I wonder why the radio buttons aren't working at your site. (BTW, I can't see any difference between 'active' and 'current' either.)

> This is strangely unintuitive. Can anyone help me understand how to 'start' a poll so I can send a link to others to start voting?

Well, when the feature is working properly, I'd say it's intuitive enough, but you seem to have a glitch for some reason. In my experience, once the poll is created and options made for it and it is made 'active' or 'current' at /tiki-admin_polls.php, it is immediately ready to be used.

> I have 'Polls' ticked in the Admin Feature list but it doesn't show up in the left-hand menu for anyone (I'm using 1.9.1).

This is where there may be an intuitiveness breakdown — unlike some other Tiki features, a Poll item doesn't automatically show up in the menu when the feature is activated. You'll have to add a menu link to your poll, or you can make a module to put the poll in.

-- Gary

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