A new feature in the upcoming version of jk_poll is to support comments with the help of the extension comments. There are 2 different options. Either you activate comments always or just after the user has voted in the RESULT view (see the examples). You can use the option "Use comments (Extension comments is required)" respectively "Use comments (Extension comments is required), but only on RESULT view" in the flexform or

plugin.tx_jkpoll_pi1.comments = 1

respectively

plugin.tx_jkpoll_pi1.comments_on_result = 1 

when using TypoScript.

In addition you have to configure the comments extension with

plugin.tx_comments_pi1.prefixToTableMap.tx_jkpoll_pi1 = tx_jkpoll_poll
plugin.tx_comments_pi1.showUidMap.tx_jkpoll_pi1 = uid

respectively

plugin.tx_comments_pi1.prefixToTableMap.tx_jkpoll_pi1 = tx_jkpoll_poll
plugin.tx_comments_pi1.showUidMap.tx_jkpoll_pi1 = uid_comments

when you only want to show the comments on the RESULT view. Here you can find an example for the first option and here an example for the second. To prevent Spam it is not possible to make new comments in these examples. Of course the form for adding a new comment can be shown easily.

News concerning jk_poll are also available by following @jk_poll at twitter. Besides reading tweets about the current development feel free to use it for comments, bugs, feature requests and appreciation ;).

There is a new field "explanation" when creating a new poll. This field can be used with a marker in the template file to show a text after the user has voted (RESULT view). With the help of this field you can realise some sort of quiz. The user chooses one of the given answers and is shown the correct answer on the result page as explanation. This might look like this.

This feature allows to show the result of a poll when using the LIST view. It can be enabled with the option "Show results in LIST" under "General Settings" or by using "plugin.tx_jkpoll_pi1.show_results_in_list = 1". Perhaps you should use a special template for this view. An example for such a template is included as "typo3conf/ext/jk_poll/res/jk_poll_results_list.tmpl". The result may look like this.

At the moment I'm working on jk_poll again (see development version in download section). There are still some features to work on and the documentation has to be completed, before it will be available in the official extension repository. To demonstrate the new features I decided to start a mini series of articles describing the new feature and a short example of it. Stay tuned for the first article of this series.