Ok I get one user who always complain about this on a poll. Not always the same user. They click on vote (do not look at results first) and it says "You cannot view the poll results before you vote!"
the url is has this in it: "forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=169&results=1"
He does not show up in the database under the who voted table. If I create another poll he could vote fine..
A link to your forum would be helpful. Does this happen everytime you have a new poll or is it just this one poll? Is it only one user that has this problem or many of your users? Do you have a problem with voting when you try it?
It happens once in awhile on polls - not all the time and not always the same one. but when it does happen the user can not vote even after clearing his cookies, logging off and on or trying another day. It is not always the same user. It has happened only twice so far (two different users, two different polls) I have not experienced the problem myself.
Well, the whole point of me asking you for your forum url is so I could test the polls on your forum and see if I run into the same problem.
Can you create a test account for me and give me the username and password? Don't really want to register on the forum.
The only way a user would get that message is if they tried to put in the url of a poll to see the poll results, before they voted. The way the poll works is, when you click either the "Vote" or View Results" button, it submits a form. In the form, it sends information to the topic.asp file, telling it if it is an anonymous vote(view results button) or a member vote(vote button).
If it doesn't recieve that piece of data, it thinks the user is trying to access the results of the poll directly by entering the url.
So my conclusion: 1) They could be trying to view the results directly by entering the url of the poll results. 2) Or you didn't add the poll mod code correctly to your files causing this problem.
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Posted - 31 December 2002 : 21:21:25
