Voting on polls

As the creator of a poll, you may want to announce the start of voting by including the link to the poll in a Web page or by distributing it via email, especially when it is a public poll. In this case, you should publish the public link to the poll for anonymous voters, i.e.

http://your-bscw-server/pub/bscw.cgi/poll-id

For authenticated voters with access to the workspace containing the poll, you should advise the use of the ‘authenticated’ access to the poll, i.e. the link

http://your-bscw-server/bscw/bscw.cgi/poll-id

where poll-id is the object id of the poll – to be found as the last number of the URL shown in the address field of your browser when you open the poll. If in doubt, ask your BSCW ad­ministrator about the correct links.

In order to vote on a poll, you either click on the link published as described above or – when you have access to the workspace of the poll – you

•      choose   Open  in the action menu of the poll or click on the poll entry in the folder listing. This will show the questionnaire.

•      Fill in the questionnaire and hit [Submit vote] when you are finished. Answers will then be final and cannot be revised any more.

•      If configured accordingly, the poll results so far will be shown after your having voted.

Voting is only possible if a voting period has been specified for the poll and this period has started and not yet expired. Each potential participant in a poll may only vote once. In case of a public poll this is achieved by setting a browser cookie. Each participant has to vote on all questions which are marked with an asterisk (*) as mandatory, otherwise the vote is not ac­cepted.