How can I acquire exact vote numbers in some votings? We are currently voting for trust level 4 people. People have 5 votes. There are 40 candidates, which I had to split into 2 polls because it only accepts 20 per poll. That is, 5 votes split between the two polls. This means that the total of vote…

You can find the number of votes with the API. By visiting https://discourse.example.com/t/#{topic_id}/posts.json you’ll get the JSON data of all the posts within the topic. The #{topic_id} is the number you see in your browser’s URL bar when you visit a topic. The API will return a large JSON obje…

[image] Silvanus: it only accepts 20 per poll There is a site settings for this. 20 is the default value. Search for poll maximum options To solve your problem I think that you can write a proper query and use the Data Explorer plugin or delete the 2 topics, change the site setting and creat…

Oh thank you. This will fix the next vote. But people already started voting…

@Silvanus for your next poll for promotions: [image] Elections Plugin Plugin Repo: GitHub - angusmcleod/discourse-elections · GitHub This uses the Polls plugin as a base and adds controls and features specific to running elections. Enabling and Settings…

It also seems the number of votes is shown when “Show Results” is clicked… shame Of course this means I have to calculate single option votes manually, but with percentage and total number it’s doable.

Poll problem - exact vote numbers needed

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dax (Daniela) August 22, 2017, 1:40pm 5

@Silvanus for your next poll for promotions:

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Poll problem - exact vote numbers needed

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