The new version 0.9.1 is submitted to the repository and should be available there soon. As an alternative you can also download it here. This is just a minor update:

• Added marker VOTES_COUNT. Due to the fact that users may also vote for more than one answer, the amount of votes is not necessarily the amount of people voted. ###VOTES_COUNT### counts the people voted.
• Change the type of the images for the poll bars to e.g. png via TypoScript with plugin.tx_jkpoll_pi1.image_type = png (gif is default). Thanks to Robert Heel for submitting a patch for this.
• Restructured the form for creating a new poll record. First time users now should not be confused by too many form fields available.

In the new version the structure of the flexform configuration was changed. By adding new features the structure had got very confusing. So I devided the options to the views (POLL, RESULT and LIST) they affect. As a side effect unfortunately when updating from an older version of jk_poll the settings in the flexform are lost and you have to configure the plugin again. If you use configuration via TypoScript everyhing is working as before.

These are the new features:

• users may select more than one answer when voting
• marker QUESTION_IMAGE also added to LIST view (you can define height and width for the image)
• added pagebrowser to LIST view (extension "pagebrowse" is required)
• possibility of link from POLL view to RESULT view and back

Due to the many changes in the flexform there might be some bugs. Please do not hesitate to report them to me if you see any.

The new version 0.8.0 of jk_poll was already released in the TYPO3 Repository last week. Alternatively it can also be downloaded from this site heruntergeladen werden. Unfortunately the manual on typo3.org was not rendered correctly and wil be fixed soon. Until then you can also use the PDF from the section "Download".

Here is a short list of the most important/interesting changes:

• general bugfixes
• posibility to add images to the answers
• show results also in LIST view
• new field explanation (might be useful for some sort of quiz)
• compatibility with extension comments

UPDATE: Today the current version is 0.8.2. There were changes to the manual, a bugfix for XHTML 1.0 strict compatibility and a danish translation (see also changelog).

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.