VotePlugin

This plugin might be used to establish an online-voting system. Votes are collected in a separate file ... basically inspired by the TWiki:Plugins/PollPlugin.

Example

%VOTE{id="FavoritMeal" style="bar" select1="Drink" options1="Beer,Wine,Milk,Water" select2="Food" options2="Steak,Bread,Pasta,Pizza"}%

Syntax Rules

The %VOTE{ ... }% macro defines a poll using the following options:
name description example
id The identifier of a poll. This must be unique per topic. You can thus have multiple independent votes on the same topic page. FaroritMeal
style Possible values are a combination of bar, perc, total and sum to specify the display style of the poll results (default bar,perc,total). bar
select<n> As you can see in the above example multiple decisions can be made within the same poll. This identifier must be unique within a poll. You can have up to 5 selects per vote (sorry hardcoded;)) Drinks
options<n> Each select<n> corresponds to set of options that you must specify. Beer,Wine,Milk

select and option might use the pseudo variables $percnt, $dollar, $quote and $doublequote to render the respective characters in the vote output otherwise not allowed in an argument to a TWiki tag.

The %VOTE{ ... }% will generate the selection box(es) and the poll results. The plugin will count only you latest vote. You might only vote once a day.

Plugin Settings

  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Simple way to count votes

Plugin Installation Instructions

  • Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
  • Unzip VotePlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:
    File: Description:
    bin/vote Plugin cgi script
    data/TWiki/VotePlugin.txt Plugin topic
    lib/TWiki/Plugins/VotePlugin.pm Plugin Perl module
  • (Dakar) Visit configure in your TWiki installation, and enable the plugin in the {Plugins} section.

Plugin Info

Plugin Author: TWiki:Main/MichaelDaum
Plugin Version: v1.21 (2005-10-09)
Change History:  
2005-10-09 fixed invocation of normalizeFileName
2005-10-08 added added a little more style flexibility
2005-10-07 storing votes into _Vote*.txt now (was Vote*.txt before) ; fixed error messaging on empty argument lists
2005-09-14 fixes for dakar
2005-03-14 incorporated getLocaldate() function
2005-03-16 use Cache API only if its there; delayed use <package>
2005-03-07 Initial version
TWiki Dependency: $TWiki::Plugins::VERSION 1.024
CPAN Dependencies: none
Other Dependencies: security patches from TWiki:Codev/UncoordinatedSecurityAlert23Feb2005
Perl Version: >=5.6.1
License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
TWiki:Plugins/Benchmark: TWiki:TWiki/GoodStyle nn%, TWiki:TWiki/FormattedSearch nn%, VotePlugin nn%
Plugin Home: TWiki:Plugins/VotePlugin
Feedback: TWiki:Plugins/VotePluginDev
Appraisal: TWiki:Plugins/VotePluginAppraisal

-- TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum - 9 Oct 2005

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