Overview

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

Requirements

• Plone >= 4.1.x (http://plone.org/products/plone)
• Dexterity >= 1.1 (http://plone.org/products/dexterity) Note: you may need to use known good versions of eggs for Dexterity; see http://plone.org/products/dexterity/documentation/how-to/install

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

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
• When a poll is Pending review it can be edited by Manager, 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 Manager or Site Administrator roles
• 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
   

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 (frapell@gmail.com)
• Héctor Velarde (hector.velarde@gmail.com)
• Érico Andrei (erico@simplesconsultoria.com.br)
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