CMS Made Simple Forums

What does this do?

This module implements a simple voting system for items of discussion. It can be used for a simple poll, or a more complex decision management process.

Feature List

    * Frontend Creation and Editing of Ballots
    * Ballots can have three stages (all controlled by dates)
          o Discussion - The ballot is open for discussion.
            Usually the comments module is embedded to allow open discussion between members
          o Voting
            Authorized users can vote on the ballot. A user can only vote once per ballot
          o Closed
            After voting has closed authorized users can review the discussion (but not post comments), and can view the voting results
    * Completely Template Driven
      Numerous different templates are available for each voting mode, and for the summary mode
    * Voting choices can be different for each ballot
    * Two different display options:
          o Summary mode
          o Detail Mode
            Different Templates are used for the different stages that a ballot is in. And the template to use is controllable
    * Complete admin interface with the ability to edit and delete ballots
    * Complete modular security

Calguy,

Would you mind providing a short tutorial on how one might get started with this module?  I'm expecting there to be a "create ballot" link, but can't find one, so I have no clue how to begin.  I'm not wanting to customize templates or anything, just create a simple sample ballot.

Also, the Help page says "'The simplest way to use this module is to just put {Ballots} into the content section of a page, or into your page template."  However, this thows a Smarty "tag not recognized" error.  I tried changing to {"cms_module module="ballots"}, and this solved the problem.  But since I don't have a ballot created, I still don't see anything on my page.

Thanks for any help!

put it on calguy1000.com!

{Ballots action='addballot'}
should do it.

ok, so we can't add Ballots from the Admin, only from the front-end, by calling in a page/template??

Yeah, that's the way the original customer wanted it.

If I get time, I'll see about adding an admin action for it.

that would be awesome - thanks!  nice mod, by the way.  your mods always take me a bit to get used to, but then I realize how powerful they are... keep it up!

Hello,
is not working with me,
I put {Ballots} and I got no thing, I tried to add {Ballots action='addballot'} and no thing apper to me,
when I add
this error apper to me :
string(144) "Smarty error: [in content:content_en line 5]: syntax error: unrecognized tag: "cms_module module="ballots" (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 446)" string(117) "Smarty error: [in content:content_en line 5]: syntax error: unrecognized tag '' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 590)" ?? what's wrong??

you have an extra quote in your module call.

should be this:
{cms_module module="Ballots"}

not this:
{"cms_module module="Ballots"}

now it work well

But I Need to all my visitor to vote on the ballot "NOT Authorized users ",
is this possible ?

could someone put up a link of it working... would love to see it..
jeremyBass

could someone put up a link of it working... would love to see it..  [2]

viebig wrote: could someone put up a link of it working... would love to see it..  [2]

Roger, I'm setting up one as I speak.

did you get this set up?  got a link?

I also intrusted

Me too...