Is there a way to share a poll from the polls app via public link without the polls app remembering who previously used that link? Currently when I share a poll via the link, I would need to create a new link for each user as anyone who clicks on the public link I have made, is changing the vote of the previous person.
The behavior that I would want to have here is: you create a public link and send it to any number of people (who do not have nc accounts). They visit the same public link, and input their name before voting. I know this would mean they couldn’t come back and vote again because it would just take them to this same public link, but is this behavior possible? I think this is essentially how it works if each user remembers to uncheck the “remember me for 30 days” box.
Side note: It would be nice as a feature request if they could then log in again by typing the name they used originally. For example if I typed “Jane” the first time, I could log back in later as Jane and change my vote.
I assume you tested using same browser session and choose default option to remember (cookie) and for this reason you always changed the same record and not created new one. Always use another browser session for testing - browser could trick you
Thank you for the detailed explanation! I was able to follow your steps and do exactly as you showed. The way that I realized this issue was actually by doing a test vote on my computer and opening it on my phone afterwards. My phone wouldn’t have held the cookies from firefox on my desktop, and I even switched it to cellular instead of wifi to see if somehow it was saving the votes by IP. I am not really sure how to recreate my issue, as my existing poll now works as expected too.
It is possible this isn’t worth exploring more – I am happy that it works now! But I may have found a bug of some kind, I will see if I can reproduce it. I made a vote on Firefox from a private window, shared the link to my phone via email, and opened it to find the vote already cast, which is what made me believe that this was the intended behavior. I am not really sure how this occurred.
Edit: For clarification, when I was able to reproduce the issue, the link actually didn’t even ask me to register, it just somehow knew that I was visiting already signed in. I am not sure if this was user error on my part somehow.
After registering via a public share, you will be redirected to your personal URL (Link).
Note, that the URLs are different and you will see your registration in the poll administration as a new share.
Check the token of the public link i.e. eygrtuGi and the token of the private share after registration. It is different.
@dartcafe you are the king! the URL change is not obvious but could really beat you if not testing really careful - visiting “individual” URL even in a new private tab shows the previous vote!
This is definitely exactly what happened, I didn’t realize that users were in fact given individual links for later revisiting. Thank you for the information here
