Polls for a closed group of voters

[kdambekalns (Karsten Dambekalns)]

Continuing the discussion from Renaming discuss.neos.io:

@robert

@bwaidelich ah, again: we can’t see who voted and we can’t make sure that only team members vote. What to do about that? Could you check if there’s some way to realize that in Discourse?

Brain dump: Would it be possible to have a poll in a topic that is closed for a group of people to reply in? And would that affect the ability to vote?

[bwaidelich (Bastian Waidelich)]

Thanks for bringing this up again, I overlooked @robert’s remark.
Unfortunately the discourse polling feature seem to be quite limited still. Maybe they’ll add these features at some point.
As a (transitional) solution we could use Google Forms. They have some nice features and if we place them into a Neos/Polls folder in the google drive we should be able to control access:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-wMPLO3XITsw875ivgsjBmuWgGcnj3m5H5d98644pdM/viewform

[bwaidelich (Bastian Waidelich)]

So I enabled the Only allow one response per person (requires login) setting for this form which seems to hide it from discourse if you’re not logged in to your google account.
Re “control access”, it seems Google Forms don’t behave the same as other google documents in that they are always public. But with the “requires login” flag we could filter out any non-member votes.

[kdambekalns (Karsten Dambekalns)]

Even though I am logged in to Google, your post only shows a blank area for me, where I think the poll should be.

[bwaidelich (Bastian Waidelich)]

@kdambekalns

Even though I am logged in to Google, your post only shows a blank area for me, where I think the poll should be.

Really? Weird, because I got 2 responses… Might have been me (I only enabled “one response per person” later).
But I can’t tell because apparently you need Google Apps in order to do non-anonymous polls…

[robert (Robert Lemke)]

@bwaidelich

Really? Weird, because I got 2 responses… Might have been me (I only enabled “one response per person” later).

I replied, too

[bwaidelich (Bastian Waidelich)]

Looking at https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/plugins/poll/plugin.rb it seems the Discourse poll plugin doesn’t even store the voter’s identity yet. At least if I correctly decoded that ruby code…
In the API it also only lists number of votes and number of voters: Polling in Discourse

[robert (Robert Lemke)]

Since the code is not tooo complex, I think it would be feasible if we adjusted that plugin to our needs (and contribute it back, if possible). In particular, I would like the following features:

• only allow members of a specific (Discourse) team to vote
• ability to show who voted and which option he / she chose (could be possible to disable that by an option)
• send a request to some (Neos) plugin when closing the vote, with vote data as JSON so we can display decisions at some page on neos.io

… or, if we go that route with the Neos plugin anyway, we could simply start the polls in Neos and find a way to easily embed the vote widget into Discourse.