Library Web Chic

Last week I was working to put together a survey/vote in Drupal for the YourBIGWIG site in order to allow people to vote on topics for this year’s Social Software Showcase. As always, this sort of endeavor is one big experiment. First I had to find a module that would do the job. Then install it, configure it, and properly setup a survey. While it seems like a relatively simple task, I encountered a number of little roadblocks along the way. The most annoying being that getting the TinyMCE WYSIWYG module and the Web Forms module to play nice together is a bit of a trial. I don’t want the WYSIWYG to show up on the Web Forms edit pages but can’t figure out how to configure TinyMCE to make this happen. Add to this the fact that not all the pieces of the version 6 compatible TinyMCE module work right. Well, we live in a beta world and I’m experiencing a wee bit of beta pain.

Overall, I like the Web Forms module but there are little bits and pieces of functionality that I wish were there or that I haven’t found how to use yet. One issue that arose was allowing people to submit votes anonymously. I had set it up to allow 1 vote per person. But guess what that also applies to the anonymous user. Sigh! Another issue is that I want people to be able to see results but not individual submissions. Which I can’t figure out how to do.

I really like experimenting with all these things. But some days I just want to be able to make things work right or at least the way I intended. The more I play with things though the more I find out ways to accomplish my goal. It just takes time and with all the work I have on my plate, I’m really not particularly patient right now.