[teaching with drupal] poll in block?

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Hello, Dan,

It's scheduled for release at the end of October -- I'm currently 
reviewing screenshots/process as there were some code changes and user 
interface changes that landed in early September.

So, almost there...

Cheers,

Bill

Dan Butcher wrote:
> Bill--I thought that Views might help with this.
>
> On another, related topic: when is your Drupal book coming out, Bill?
>
> Dan
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Bill Fitzgerald <bill at funnymonkey.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello, all,
>>
>> The Views module would also give you more granular control over this -- for
>> example, you could make a poll sticky, and use views to display only
>> "sticky" polls --
>>
>> If you were going to be regularly filtering through polls, you could also
>> look at the Nodequeue module to specify polls for display.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> Bleck, Bradley wrote:
>>     
>>> Cool. I'm sure I stumbled across it in the same way.
>>>
>>> Bradley Bleck
>>> English Department
>>> Spokane Falls CC
>>> http://bleckblog.org
>>> http://biketoworkspokane.org
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: teaching-bounces at drupaled.net [mailto:teaching-bounces at drupaled.net]
>>> On Behalf Of Dan Butcher
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:55 AM
>>> To: teaching with drupal
>>> Subject: Re: [teaching with drupal] poll in block?
>>>
>>> OK--I should have checked the Block config page first :) One of the
>>> built-in blocks is "most recent poll"--placed it in the sidebar, and
>>> there's my poll. Thanks for the response, Brad.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Bleck, Bradley <BradB at spokanefalls.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Dan,
>>>>
>>>> I've been using a poll on one site, and how I did it, I don't recall, but
>>>> I have it on the left side of my page. I just gave things a quick look and I
>>>> can't tell how I made it happen. It can be done, but I don't remember how.
>>>> It may be that the poll automatically appears in a block, but if you leave
>>>> "promote to front page" or whatever that publishing choice is, you'll also
>>>> have it front and center.
>>>>
>>>> Bradley Bleck
>>>> English Department
>>>> Spokane Falls CC
>>>> http://bleckblog.org
>>>> http://biketoworkspokane.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: teaching-bounces at drupaled.net
>>>> [mailto:teaching-bounces at drupaled.net] On Behalf Of Dan Butcher
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 3:17 PM
>>>> To: teaching with drupal
>>>> Subject: [teaching with drupal] poll in block?
>>>>
>>>> I want to poll my students about how they are using an online tool,
>>>> and I want to put it in a block in the sidebar since I have some
>>>> announcements that need to stay front and center (and top) on the home
>>>> page. Is there a way to do that? I know I can display poll results in
>>>> a block, but I want the poll itself to appear in the block.
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Dan
>>>>
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