Thanks, then it is behaving (and supposed to behave) the way I want it to. I
hope it will continue to do so.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz
Global Information Incorporated
195 Farmington Ave.
Farmington, CT 06032

860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341


> -----Original Message-----
> From: janra at write-on.org [mailto:janra at write-on.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:02 AM
> To: scoop-help at lists.kuro5hin.org
> Cc: Jerry Schwartz
> Subject: Re: [Scoop-help] Main Poll?
>
> I think Colin remembered wrong :-)
>
> If there's a "main" poll, that is what displays on the front page,
> regardless of how many stories have polls and where they're posted.
> The description Shawn posted is the correct, normal procedure for
> adding a front page poll, and it's been that way as long as I can
> remember. (I just checked the CVS logs, and it's almost exactly four
> years ago that the poll edit form gained a "make main" checkbox.)
>
> -janra
>
> On 9-Apr-07, at 11:45 AM, Jerry Schwartz wrote:
>
> > That does actually work, although according to Colin Hill
> it should
> > not.
> > According to his memory, it should only display the "Main" poll if
> > there are
> > no displayed stories with polls attached. He looked at the
> poll_box
> > code,
> > and concluded that it was a buggy mess.
> >
> > He did seem to agree that the behavior I want (and that you
> seem to be
> > using) would be useful. That may become the default behavior.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jerry Schwartz
> > Global Information Incorporated
> > 195 Farmington Ave.
> > Farmington, CT 06032
> >
> > 860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: scoop-help-bounces at lists.kuro5hin.org
> >> [mailto:scoop-help-bounces at lists.kuro5hin.org] On Behalf Of
> >> Shawn Estes
> >> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 12:20 PM
> >> To: scoop-help at lists.kuro5hin.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Scoop-help] Main Poll?
> >>
> >> Hi Jerry,
> >>
> >> I think this will work for you:
> >>
> >> Login as admin, look down your "admin tools" and click on New Poll.
> >> Fill out the poll information and click the check at "Mark as main"
> >> and that'll add one to the main page. Assuming that you have
> >> |BOX,poll_box| inside your index_template.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 4/9/07, Jerry Schwartz <jschwartz at the-infoshop.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I'm trying to display a poll on the main page, not attached
> >> to a story or
> >>> diary, and I can't seem to figure out how to do it. My boss
> >> insists he was
> >>> able to do it, and he's not a programmer at all, so this is
> >> embarrassing. I
> >>> created a poll as a "main" poll, and it doesn't show up. I
> >> tried adding
> >>> |poll_block| after |main_menu| in default_template, but it
> >> didn't show up. I
> >>> also tried adding it to hotlist_template, and it didn't show up.
> >>>
> >>> I must be missing something fairly simple.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Jerry Schwartz
> >>> Global Information Incorporated
> >>> 195 Farmington Ave.
> >>> Farmington, CT 06032
> >>>
> >>> 860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341
> >>>
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