GOWM surveys

With this plug-in you and your members can add surveys to your website. It's a members-only feature: to vote in a survey or create a survey, a person must be a member of your site. It's another way to attract members to your site.

You can only vote once in each survey, but you can change your vote. We remember your old vote, subtract one from its counter and add one to your new choice's counter.

How to enable surveys

The Surveys feature is implemented as a Manila plug-in. You can enable and disable plug-ins by going to the Plug-ins page in your site prefs.
Check the box next to Surveys.
Click the Submit button. Now you should see a GOWM Surveys item in your Editors only menu.

Creating and running surveys

You and your members can list the surveys on your site and create new surveys. You can run surveys and view the results. You can edit and delete your own surveys.

New macros

You can also list and display surveys from outside the surveys section of your site. There are macros you can use:

{GOWMsurveyMacros.list ()}

This creates a list of all the surveys hosted on your site.

{GOWMsurveyMacros.run (memberName, surveyName)}

This displays a survey ready to be voted on. memberName is the email address of the member that created it. surveyName is the name of the survey. If you want to find out these two things, you can get it from the URL to a survey. Run a survey -- click Run -- and look at the URL. It will be in a format similar to this: http://mysite.editthispage.com/GOWMsurveys/run/brent@userland.com/howHighIsTheSky The memberName is the brent@userland.com part. The surveyName is the last part: howHighIsTheSky. So the actual macro call would look like this:

{GOWMsurveyMacros.run ("brent@userland.com", "howHighIsTheSky")}

Important note: if a person viewing the page containing this macro is not a member of your site, or isn't logged in, they will see an error message instead of the survey. This is because only members may vote on surveys.

The following macro displays the results of a survey. memberName and surveyName are as above.

{GOWMsurveyMacros.results (memberName, surveyName)}

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