Can a poll be pinned as a banner?

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The discussion revolves around creating a poll that can be pinned as a banner in a Discourse instance. communitygal initially encountered issues with a poll not displaying the question and showing zero voters. dax suggested that the question needs to be written outside the poll and also inquired if the instance was running the latest version, as poll bugs have been fixed in recent updates.

communitygal suspected the issue might be related to pinning the poll as a banner. dax confirmed this, referencing a Meta Discourse topic where it was stated that polls don’t support being pinned in a banner. codinghorror also acknowledged this limitation.

However, nathank expressed interest in having this feature, and JammyDodger mentioned a theme component that works with numerical polls and suggested the possibility of adapting it for word-based polls. The conversation highlights the need for a proper feature request to allow polls in banners.

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I added this poll to my instance, but the question doesn’t appear. How can I create a poll that looks more intuitive to users?
People had voted but it displayed zero voters.

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You must write the question outside the poll:

What is your favorite animal?

  • cat
  • dog
  • capybara
0 voters

Are you on the very latest version of Discourse?
There were bugs on polls that have already been fixed some time ago.

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oh ok maybe the issue was just when it was pinned the banner

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Yep, for reference:

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Polls don’t support being pinned in a banner at the moment.

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Das wäre sehr praktisch, wenn sie es täten!

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Es gibt die Theme-Komponente GitHub - discourse/discourse-poll-banner: Display a poll from a topic as a banner for all logged-in users. · GitHub, die auf numerischen Umfragen basiert. Ich weiß nicht, ob jemand sie irgendwie anpassen könnte, um auch „wortbasierte“ Umfragen zu verarbeiten?

Es scheint tatsächlich einige Diskussionsthemen zu geben, die sich mit Umfragen in Bannern befassen, aber ich denke, viele davon waren ursprünglich Fehlerberichte, die später neu klassifiziert wurden, anstatt echte #contribute:Funktionsanfragen zu sein. Es könnte hilfreich sein, etwas zusammenzutragen, um dem Thema mehr Gehör zu verschaffen und anderen die Möglichkeit zu geben, ihre Stimme in die Diskussion einzubringen.