Changing poll publicity

zoogs

zoogs

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Apparently, this is possible, but you'll need to run an SQL query to do it and that's tucked far into the ACP (for the reason that it can break every table on the board, I guess).

For future reference: (tid is the topic ID number). If anyone needs this done on a poll let me know. Shouldn't do 0 to 1 changes, of course.

Code: 
UPDATE ibf_polls
SET poll_view_voters = 0
WHERE tid = 82232;
 
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Thanks zoogs.

I think you can change it from public to not public by editing it but can't change it the other way without getting into the code.

 
Interesting. I'm pretty sure my above statement was correct last time I tried but it appears that this got updated at some point. But only for newly-created threads.

In the Test 1 sub-forum, I had an existing thread that I tried to edit to make the poll public but it won't let me do it.

However, on the new thread I created I can turn the public part on and off. So it would appear that any new thread can be changed either direction by editing the poll.

 
Hm, weird. I tried editing the poll first and wasn't able to do that. Searched around and found the above solution by someone asking for the feature. Our IPB hasn't been updated in a while.

 
Yeah, that is weird.

It's letting me change it on the poll I just made in Test 1 but it's not letting me do that on the polls in the Contest Crib.

Is there a forum setting for that?

 
Not that I'm finding.

Is it possible that the polls you can't change are polls created by others? And the polls you can change are only those polls YOU created?

 
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Both the polls I'm looking at are ones that I created and both were created today.

Perhaps the difference is whether someone has voted already or not? I'd have to do some more checking on that. I suppose it would make sense that you couldn't make a non-public poll public after someone had already voted.

 
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Yeah, it would appear that you can change it until someone votes then it is locked (without getting into the code as zoogs said).

Which makes sense. I just went into the poll in Test 1 and I could change it back and forth until I voted in it and now I can't change it anymore.

 
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