Polls

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Description¶

With this snippet you're able to create a view for a single poll question and answers wich you have created in the manager. You can create two pairs of chunks; one pair of two chunks for the voting form and one pair of two chunks for the result view after you voted. Read down below how the templates are working and see what parameters could be set.

Usage¶

The Polls snippet can be used simple putting this tag in your template or resource content

[[!Polls? &id=`your-question-id`]]

For parameter usage, please see the table below

Available properties¶

Template properties¶

Name	Description	Default
tplVote	The main form template for the latest poll view	pollsLatestVoteOuter
tplVoteAnswer	The form template for the answers inside the main view	pollsLatestVoteAnswer
tplResult	The main result template for the latest poll view	pollsLatestResultOuter
tplResultAnswer	The result template for the answers inside the outer view	pollsLatestResultAnswer

Selection properties¶

Name	Description	Default
id	(Required) Will select the given poll by id of the question

Linking properties¶

Name	Description	Default
resultResource	(Optional) When set to a resource id, this resource will be used to show the poll results
resultLinkVar	(Optional) When using resultResource, this is the parametername the snippet is looking for	poll

Template placeholders¶

Within the templates for this snippet you can use the following placeholders to generate your view.

tplVote¶

Placeholder	Description
`[[+id]]`	The question id of the current poll view
`[[+question]]`	The question text
`[[+publishdate]]`	The publishdate of the question
`[[+unpublishdate]]`	The unpublishdate of the question
`[[+totalVotes]]`	The total number of votes on this poll
`[[+category_name]]`	The name of the poll category (only availbale when using the category property)
`[[+results_url]]`	The URL of the results view (only available when using the resultResource property)
`[[+answers]]`	Contains the output of the answers generated for this poll question

tplVoteAnswers¶

Placeholder	Description
`[[+id]]`	The id of the answer record
`[[+idx]]`	The loop number of the answers list (start: 1)
`[[+answer]]`	The answer text
`[[+votes]]`	The number of votes for this answer
`[[+percent]]`	The percentage of the number of votes for this answer

Note: for the results view of this snippet, the same placeholders as above are available, including this extra one.

Placeholder	Description
`[[+logdate]]`	The datetime of the vote of the current visitor (based on IP address)

Examples¶

The default call of this snippet returns a basic view of the poll-vote and poll-results. You can change above parameters to create your own (also possible by propertysets).

[[!Polls? &id=`your-question-id`]]

It's also possible to create a TV with input type "Polls question list" and use that inside the &id parameter, to make it easier to edit for non-developers

[[!Polls? &id=`[[*yourPollsTVname]]`]]