collective.polls

Overview

A content type, workflow, and portlet for conducting online polls, for anonymous and logged-in users.

Features

• Polls can be open for anonymous users to vote
• Voting can take place in the object or in a voting portlet
• The voting portlet shows automatically the latest open poll or a specific open poll
• Users can see partial results of the poll
• Results can be shown using a bar chart, a pie chart, or just by number of votes
• Polls can have relations with other content in the site

Workflow description

The workflow associated with polls has the following states: Private, Pending review, Open and Closed.

• Polls are created in Private state; only Owner, Manager, Editor or Site Administrator roles can modify them
• When a poll is Private it can be sent to Pending review or directly to Open, if the user has the proper role (Reviewer, Manager, Site Administrator)
• When a poll is Pending review it can be edited by Manager, Editor, Reviewer or Site Administrator roles
• A poll in Pending review can be sent to Open, with "Review portal content" permission, or to Private, with "Request review" permission
• When the poll is Open, people can only vote; nobody can modify the poll in any way
• An Open poll can be sent to Private or Closed state by Reviewer, Manager or Site Administrator roles
• When an Open poll is sent to Private, all votes are removed to avoid data manipulation.
• When a poll is Closed nobody can modify it, nor can anyone vote on it; there is no way to reopen a closed poll

Installation

To enable this product in a buildout-based installation:

1. Edit your buildout.cfg and add collective.polls to the list of eggs to install

   [buildout]
   ...
   eggs =
       collective.polls
   

2. You may need to extend a Dexterity known good set (KGS) to make sure that you get the right versions of the packages that make up Dexterity

   [buildout]
   ...
   extends =
       http://good-py.appspot.com/release/dexterity/1.2.1
   

After updating the configuration you need to run ''bin/buildout'', which will take care of updating your system.

Go to the 'Site Setup' page in a Plone site and click on the 'Add-ons' link.

Check the box next to ''collective.polls'' and click the 'Activate' button.

Note: You may have to empty your browser cache and save your resource registries in order to see the effects of the product installation.

Contributors

• Franco Pellegrini
• Héctor Velarde
• Érico Andrei
• Rafahela Bazzanella
• Silvestre Huens
• Elio Schmutz
• WebDesignerDepot (icon)

Development sponsored by Open Multimedia and Simples Consultoria.

Changelog

1.0.1 (2012-05-08)
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