Hide Poll Results

[Patrick O'Keefe]

Hey all,

Our community is currently in the middle of our 23rd annual awards! We collect nominations from the community for categories like Member of the Year, and then we post those nominations as ballots that can be voted on via polls in the forums.

I always hide the poll results, even after someone was voted, as I want to maintain an element of surprise. The poll results also need to be audited before they are final because we only allow members who have made a certain amount of posts by a specific date to vote, and we do not allow members to vote for themselves. So, those votes always have to be removed manually via the database.

Anyway, I went to make the poll posts just now and realized that I couldn't find a way hide the poll results. It might not be there, or I might be missing something. I did some searching and came up with a member referring to a "Hide results until the poll is closed" feature, but that may have been depreciated or is otherwise not available to me.

Previously, we had used software where I had installed an add-on that allowed us to do this on a per-thread basis. But I would certainly take a per-forum basis, since all of these poll threads will be in our announcements forum.

I am guessing there is a way for me to take code out of the template files and block out poll results for all polls across the entire community for the couple of weeks the ballots will be up, but I thought I would ask for ideas before I did anything that drastic. 🙂 Thank you for reading and for your time!

Patrick

[Jim M]

The only thing which is currently present that we have which may be close is "Users can view the results before voting?" There is nothing that would hide results permanently.

[Patrick O'Keefe]

Thank you for the quick reply, Jim. I appreciate it. With more digging, I think I have found a solution via application that will at least work for us for this awards season. 🙂