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Topic: Poll Database Issue

Posted By: MortiOli
Subject: Poll Database Issue
Date Posted: 20 January 2010 at 12:40pm

Bit of a random one...

I was interested to see who voted in a new poll that's been posted in my forum. So, querying the database I ran:

SELECT Poll_ID, Author_ID

FROM dbo.tblPollVote

WHERE (Poll_ID = '14')

No results. Hmm, strange. Double checked that it was indeed poll 14 I was looking at, and that votes had been made in the PollChoice table - 25 in total.

I queried Poll_ID 13, with 10 results pulling back - matching the 10 votes in the PollChoice table.

Tried again on Poll_ID 14, but nothing.

Am I going mad, or isn't it logging the votes against users for some reason?

EDIT - One thing I just noticed is that it's a multiple votes poll, so does this mean it doesn't track who voted for what? Also, it's a bit odd that people can vote on one option multiple times. I always though multiple vote polls should just allow you to vote for more than one option, but not one option more than once.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 January 2010 at 12:51pm

Multiple vote polls allow the person to vote multiple times and for this reason it will not store who has voted in that poll.

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Posted By: geochai
Date Posted: 21 March 2010 at 2:40am

Yes... that's really bad/bug, and the result might be fake !

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 March 2010 at 11:48am

This is not a bug but a design feature.

Multiple vote polls allow the member to vote multiple times in that poll rather than just a single time in normal polls.

What you are really asking for is a new feature to have a Poll option to be able to select Multiple Choice Options.

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