Changing the polling configuration options

LisaM said:

When users add a poll to their forum/blog posts they invariably miss the configuration tab along the top meaning that they never set an expiration date for their poll and the default display format is 'show results - always'  rather than 'after voting' which is much better as there's a nice big vote button rather than an easy to miss vote link. 

We have this problem from both users and fellow staff, and they also argue which they believe to be better (showing results first or showing options first, it's very easy to miss that you can vote in a poll as the 'vote' text is small and hidden at the bottom if you don't show the options first!).

LisaM said:

I'm looking to change the default for 'See results' from Always to After Voting but can't find anywhere where I can do that? There's no separate polling widget so I guess it's part of the main content editor widget but I can't seem to track that down? 

I haven't found the ability to set a default, I would have hoped it'd be in the extension settings in the administration panel. So I suspect it doesn't exist from an extension management standpoint.

LisaM said:

Oh and could the configuration options not just be included at the bottom of the 'create poll' tab rather than being in a separate section? Putting those options in a separate tab mean that they get missed quite often because users simply don't see there's another tab there. 

I would love this to be the case on all content. Blogs, Wiki documents, anything else with literal "options" because no-one thinks to look at a greyed out, subtle, subdued 'options' "tab" because they don't expect it. When they're told about it, they forget about it, because other site platforms don't do this.

LisaM said:

When users add a poll to their forum/blog posts they invariably miss the configuration tab along the top meaning that they never set an expiration date for their poll and the default display format is 'show results - always'  rather than 'after voting' which is much better as there's a nice big vote button rather than an easy to miss vote link. 

We have this problem from both users and fellow staff, and they also argue which they believe to be better (showing results first or showing options first, it's very easy to miss that you can vote in a poll as the 'vote' text is small and hidden at the bottom if you don't show the options first!).

LisaM said:

I'm looking to change the default for 'See results' from Always to After Voting but can't find anywhere where I can do that? There's no separate polling widget so I guess it's part of the main content editor widget but I can't seem to track that down? 

I haven't found the ability to set a default, I would have hoped it'd be in the extension settings in the administration panel. So I suspect it doesn't exist from an extension management standpoint.

LisaM said:

Oh and could the configuration options not just be included at the bottom of the 'create poll' tab rather than being in a separate section? Putting those options in a separate tab mean that they get missed quite often because users simply don't see there's another tab there. 

I would love this to be the case on all content. Blogs, Wiki documents, anything else with literal "options" because no-one thinks to look at a greyed out, subtle, subdued 'options' "tab" because they don't expect it. When they're told about it, they forget about it, because other site platforms don't do this.