Customizing Poll Results
Example
- Displaying custom election poll results.
MGI Tags
Steps
- Open the poll results page in a text editor.
- Insert the custom results parameters in the mgiPoll tag.
- Save the poll results page.
- FTP the poll results page to the web server running MGI.
- View the poll results page.
Step 1: Open the poll results page in a text editor.
- Open the poll results page in a text editing program that allows you
to view and modify HTML.
Step 2: Insert the custom results parameters in the mgiPoll tag.
- The numeric representation and graphic display of poll results can
be customized by inserting specific parameters in the mgiPoll tag that
is used to display results. Note: A second mgiPoll tag may be located on
the mgiPoll results page. That tag is used for adding poll results to the
poll database. When inserting custom results parameters, use the mgiPoll
tag that already contains the "tally" parameter.
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- Insert the "tallyResultsBy" parameter to customize the numeric
display of the poll result for each answer. Enter "Total" to
display the poll results for each answer as a whole number that represents
the total number of votes for that answer. Enter "PercentageOfTotal"
to display the poll results for each answer as a percentage of the total
votes submitted for the question.
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- Insert the "colorCycle" parameter to customize the bar color
of each poll result. By default, the bars cycle through the following colors
blue, green, orange, red, violet and yellow. Enter a comma-delimited list
of any default colors to customize the color cycle (e.g., "blue,red").
Only default colors may be used in the color cycle, although you may choose
any number of default colors and their order.
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- Insert the maximumBarGraphLength parameter and barGraphHeight parameter
to customize the size of the bar graph for each result. Enter the maximum
bar length and bar height in pixels.
<mgiPoll databasefilelocation="Surveys"
tableName="Election2000" formatFileLocation="pollformat.txt"
tally="yes" tallyresultsby="total" colorcycle="blue,red"
maximumBarGraphLength="300" barGraphHeight="13">
Step 3: Save the poll results page.
- Save the changes you have made to the poll results page.
Step 5: FTP the poll results page to the web server running MGI.
- Upload the poll results page to the web server using an FTP program.
Step 6: View the poll results page.
- View the poll results page with a web browser. The poll results display
as total numbers, alternate between blue and red bars and appear a maximum
of 300 pixels wide (relative to the number of votes) and 13 pixels high.
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