Poll Write-In & Change Vote Hack
 

Poll Write-In Vote Hack

This is only for 3.7.x, you can find my 3.6.x version here.

About this hack:
I developed this hack for my board after several polls were made by members that were short on options, especially since the poll creators are sometimes biased with the poll options. I am sure you have seen the same on your boards.

This hack allows the poll creator to allow "Write-In Votes" to a poll (single or multiple). I also added the feature to change your vote if the poll is a "write-in vote" poll, you can also allow vote changes on all polls through an admin option (ver 1.2+). This will allow a user to change their vote if they discover a better poll option written in by another user, or if they want to add one or more write-in votes to a multiple choice poll.

An admin/moderator/etc. who has permission to edit a poll can change a poll to make it a write-in poll or not. (ver 1.3+)

The cancel/change vote feature works with single and multiple choice polls.

This is my first hack but please don't let that scare you away, this is a very basic hack.

Permission Overview:


There are very few permission checks with my hack;

• If you can create a poll, you can make it a write-in vote poll.
• If you can vote on the poll, you can add a write-in vote to a write-in poll.
• If the poll is closed you cannot change your vote or add a write-in vote of course.
• You cannot add a write-in vote to a non write-in vote poll.
• If you can Edit a Poll you can remove a write-in choice.

Permission Settings:


Located in vBulletin Options "Poll and Thread Rating Options" section.

• Allow users to change their votes in ANY poll. (Default NO)
• Show the username after a write-in vote. (Default Yes)
  * If NO a log entry is written to the moderator log as per a request, see pic below
• Since version 3.6.8 vBulletin has had the ability to filter by product in the moderator log so you can filter the write-in votes if you chose not to have the username displayed.

Install Info:

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 3
• Files to install: 1
• Time to install: 5 minutes max

Install Procedure:

1. Install the Product (Download the XML file)

2. Edit Template polloptions_table

FIND

Code:

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<input type="submit" class="button" value="$vbphrase[vote_now]" />

---

ADD ABOVE

Code:

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<if condition="$pollinfo[writein]"><span style="float:$stylevar[right]"><a href="poll.php?$session[sessionurl]do=addwritein&amp;pollid=$pollinfo[pollid]">$vbphrase[add_writein_vote]</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></if>

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3. Edit Template pollresults_table

FIND

Code:

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<td class="tfoot" colspan="4" align="center"><span class="smallfont"><if condition="$show['multiple']">$vbphrase[multiple_choice_poll] </if>$vbphrase[voters]: <strong>$pollinfo[numbervotes]</strong>. $pollstatus</span></td>

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REPLACE WITH

Code:

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<td class="tfoot" colspan="4" align="center"><span class="smallfont"><if condition="$show['multiple']">$vbphrase[multiple_choice_poll] </if>$vbphrase[voters]: <strong>$pollinfo[numbervotes]</strong>. $pollstatus<if condition="$vbulletin->options['allchangevote'] OR $pollinfo[writein]"><if condition="$uservoted AND $pollinfo[active]">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="poll.php?$session[sessionurl]do=changevote&amp;pollid=$pollinfo[pollid]">$vbphrase[change_vote]</a></if></if></span></td>

---

4. Edit Template editpoll

FIND

Code:

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<if condition="$show['makeprivate']">
  <fieldset class="fieldset">
  <legend>$vbphrase[poll_options]</legend>
  <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td><label for="cb_public"><input type="checkbox" name="public" value="1" id="cb_public" tabindex="1" $pollinfo[public] />$vbphrase[make_votes_public]</label></td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  </fieldset>
  </if>

---

REPLACE WITH

Code:

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<fieldset class="fieldset"><legend>$vbphrase[poll_options]</legend><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">$addwritein<if condition="$show['makeprivate']"><tr> <td><label for="cb_public"><input type="checkbox" name="public" value="1" id="cb_public" tabindex="1" $pollinfo[public] />$vbphrase[make_votes_public]</label></td></tr></if></table></fieldset>

---

5. Enjoy!

Version Info:




Version 1.6:

• Updated for vBulletin 3.7.x

Version 3.6.8 & Above:

vBulletin 3.6.8 has the ability to filter by product in the moderator log. This is the only difference between the xml files.







Pictures:

1. Showing the "Write-In" checkbox under Miscellaneous Options when creating a poll.
2. Showing the poll with the link to add a write-in vote.
3. Showing the screen to add a write-in vote.
4. Showing the new poll with the new write-in vote and the link to Change your vote.
5. Showing the new feature (ver 1.1) where the username is placed after the write-in vote.
6. Showing the moderator log entry.

w00t, first install :D
Nice hack dude ;)

Great idea for sure.

Installed.

Great work..

Installed

Awesome idea! Thank you much for this enhancement. :) Installed.

Nice one!

Feature request:
Separate "Add Write-In" and "User can change his own vote" for each vote.

It works good on 3.8.0

Excellent! Glad I finally got around to it--and it was an easy install--as we've needed this a long time. Changing votes especially needs to be included in vBulleting.

Installed it on my 3.8.1, finally. Working fine. :)

Thanks! Cheers!

Does anyone have a live demo of this ?

thanks dude.

Installed