Poll Problem

[jrcart]

OK, sorry if you keep seeing my name on here, but I'm a newb.....

When i first installed vBadvanced I used a poll in the Off Topic forum since that's the only poll I had active. Now I need to only show polls that are in a different forum, and no longer want polls in the Off Topic to be shown.

So i went in to edit the current poll module, clicked on the appropriate forum and clicked save. Went to my homepage and still had the off topic poll. So then I thought as a quick fix I would just select the threads i wanted... well this is time consuming as I have several polls in this particular forum and want to display them randomly.

So I deleted the off topic poll to see what would happen and now POOF, no Current Poll module. PLEASE someone help, I am on the verge of pulling hairs here.... Thank you in advance!

[KW802]

jrcart, when you say "no current poll module" do you mean it's not appearing on your page or that is not even showing up in your ACP?

If it's still showing up in your ACP, from the Poll module properties in the Current Poll Options block do you have any forums highlighted in the Poll Forum(s) field?

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[jrcart]

jrcart, when you say "no current poll module" do you mean it's not appearing on your page or that is not even showing up in your ACP?

If it's still showing up in your ACP, from the Poll module properties in the Current Poll Options block do you have any forums highlighted in the Poll Forum(s) field?

It's not showing up on the homepage.... it is still editable.... what I think has happened, and this is way hypothetical... is that somehow it's still stuck on the Off Topic forum... so when I deleted the only Poll in that forum it didn't show up on the homepage since it couldn't find a poll?

Off Topic is no longer highlighted when I edit the module.... I highlighted the forum I wanted on several attempts.... when I go back to edit the module the correct forum IS highlighted, but the homepage is not displaying the correct polls (as I metnioned it didn't show any polls) and was still showing the off topic poll... until i deleted that off topic poll....

[jrcart]

Wow, I am getting very frustrated.... I just looked through adv_portal_poll and like files and could find anything worth while. It just really makes me mad that I can get it to work by clicking every single poll I want (which is upwards of 25 or 30 polls), when there is supposedly a feature that does this...... Could it be that this is a subforum and not a regular forum?

Forum
-Forum
--SubForum (I want polls from here)
Off Topic Forum
-Off Topic Forum (Still pulling from this forum)

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[Brian]

If you have specific threads selected to be displayed then that option is going to take precedence over the forum option. If you want to clear out all the threads, try running this query through phpMyAdmin or your admin cp just to be sure that option is cleared.

UPDATE adv_setting SET value = '' WHERE varname = 'portal_threadids' AND grouptitle = 'adv_portal_poll'

Then go back to edit your poll module, select the forum again, and save the module.

[jrcart]

I actually just figured it out the problem and was coming to post it when I saw your reply Brian.... the actual problem was that in the EDIT PAGES mode the Poll was set to my Off Topic Forum still. I changed it at that level and it worked. So this may be a bug in my mind, because I was changing it in the EDIT MODULE mode and that did nothing..... maybe in the module it should say to change this it needs to happen on the EDIT PAGES page? Or "as a reminder be sure to check EDIT PAGES"? Just a thought, cause I was going insane over here! LOL

[Brian]

It's designed that way so that you can change each setting on a per-page basis. When editing the module though you should see "This setting has been customized in the following pages:" right below the description if the setting has been customized in any of your pages.