Set Make Poll Public as Default?

[OverallOpinion]

Can I set the "Make Poll Public" option as default? I have been getting questions about how to change this when users have already made the poll, so i'm assuming they are not reading the options, and not checking "Make Poll Public" when my users post a poll, so i'd like to just set it as default. Thank you!!!

[Trevor Hannant]

Do you mean the 'Make Votes Public' checkbox? If so, edit the 'contententry_panel_poll' template and change this line (should be line 35):

                <label class="b-form-control__label"><input type="checkbox" name="public" class="b-form-control__control" value="1"<vb:if condition="$conversation['public']"> checked="checked"</vb:if> tabindex="0" /><span class="b-form-control__text">{vb:phrase make_votes_public}</span></label>

to this:

                <label class="b-form-control__label"><input type="checkbox" name="public" class="b-form-control__control" value="1"<vb:if condition="$conversation['public']"> checked="checked"</vb:if> tabindex="0" checked /><span class="b-form-control__text">{vb:phrase make_votes_public}</span></label>

[glennrocksvb]

Do you mean the 'Make Votes Public' checkbox? If so, edit the 'contententry_panel_poll' template and change this line (should be line 35):

 <label class="b-form-control__label"><input type="checkbox" name="public" class="b-form-control__control" value="1"<vb:if condition="$conversation['public']"> checked="checked"</vb:if> tabindex="0" /><span class="b-form-control__text">{vb:phrase make_votes_public}</span></label>

to this:

 <label class="b-form-control__label"><input type="checkbox" name="public" class="b-form-control__control" value="1"<vb:if condition="$conversation['public']"> checked="checked"</vb:if> tabindex="0" checked /><span class="b-form-control__text">{vb:phrase make_votes_public}</span></label>

If you do that and when a user made a poll private, editing the poll will always make public checked and user will need to always uncheck it every time.
The better solution should be to only set it to public if $conversation is null which occurs when you are just starting a poll topic and not when you're editing an existing poll topic.

<vb:if condition="empty($conversation)">
    {vb:set conversation.public, 1}
</vb:if>

You add the above code at the top of the contententry_panel_poll template and no need to modify the <input> for "Make vote public" checkbox.

But the best solution is to create a template hook and to not modify the existing templates at all for maintenance reasons (as the change may be overwritten or cause merge conflict that you have to resolve every time you upgrade). The template hook location should be 'editor_additional_panels' and the template code is:

<script>
(function() {
    document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(){
        var publicCheckbox = document.querySelector('.new-content-widget .b-content-entry-panel__content--poll .b-form-control__control[name="public"]');
        if (publicCheckbox) {
            publicCheckbox.checked = true;
        }
    });

})();
</script>

If you don't know how to create a template hook, you can follow the similar instructions on one of my mods in my signature.

[OverallOpinion]

Is there a resource you can send me for a template hook? I'm unfamiliar with that.

[glennrocksvb]

Check out my signature as I mentioned.

[OverallOpinion]

Thanks for the speedy replies guys, I appreciate it!