ﾚﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄｿｳ Pro-Vote PCBoard 15.1 PPE Voting and Polls! ｳﾀﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾙ The installation of Pro-Vote is fairly simple. Pro-Vote should be in- stalled into your CMD.LST as the command (usually VOTE) that you wish to assign to it. The configuration, questionnaire & display files must be located in the same directory as the PRO-VOTE.PPE. A sample config file is explained below and must be called PRO-VOTE.CNF. The Pro-Vote Config File: ﾚﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄｿｳ Intelec Online ｳ -> Who registered to (a BBS name or SysOp name) ｳ 00000 ｳ -> Registration number (00000 if unregistered) ｳ ##### ｳ -> Validation code (assigned upon registration) ｳ E:\PV\ ｳ -> Location of Questions/Answers/Display files. ｳ 5 ｳ -> No. of polls that you have config files for. * ｳ D:\PCB\BLT\VOTE ｳ -> The full path/filename of results bulletin. ** ｳ MAKEMENU ｳ -> See the "what's new" section below.......... ** ｳ CLIFF WATKINS ｳ -> SysOp Name \ Users to do maintenance ** ｳ KATHY WATKINS ｳ -> Co-SysOp Name > in Pro-Vote. This is an ** ｳ BRIAN WESTLAND ｳ -> 3rd User Name / option, blank if none. ***ｳ 20 ｳ -> The security level required to add new polls. ﾀﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾙ * New in version 3.3! ** New in version 3.4! *** new in version 3.5! The Pro-Vote QUESTION (Polls) Config File: For Poll #1 you need a separate config file called QUESTION.001, for Poll #2 the config file is called QUESTION.002 and so on. But start all info in column (1). This file is 23 lines long. And now Pro-Vote supports 999 separate polls, up to QUESTION.999, should you need it! Question To Ask ; Line 1 - Question (up to 60 chars) 1 ; Line 2 - Total Votes from this question 8 ; Line 3 - Total number of Options MsgQuest ; Line 4 - Option #1 0 ; Line 5 - Number of votes option 1 got ConfJoin ; Line 6 - Option #2 0 ; Line 7 - Number of votes option 2 got HowHeard ; Line 8 - etc... 0 ; Line 9 - " TimeZone ; Line 10 - " Options can be as many 1 ; Line 11 - " as 65 chars in length! WelcoMat ; Line 12 - " 0 ; Line 13 - " When starting a new poll Pro-Vote ; Line 14 - " make line #2 a 0 as well 0 ; Line 15 - " as lines 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 SpeedLim ; Line 16 - " and each subsequent odd-# 0 ; Line 17 - " line that follows. Intelec! ; Line 18 - " 0 ; Line 19 - " ; Line 20 - " 0 ; Line 21 - " ; Line 22 - " 0 ; Line 23 - " The Poll USER NAMES File: ﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄ For Poll # 1 it's called NAMELIST.001, Poll # 2 is NAMELIST.002 and so on. Pro-Vote appends the user's name to this file as soon as the user answers a particular Questionnaire/Poll so that they can't "re-answer" the same one. Pro-Vote creates this file automatically for every Poll answered so you really don't have to worry about creating it yourself. Now creates a bulletin that is updated each time a poll is answered. Now can be used in the security specific logon files with commandline of L to display polls to users to show which polls there are or which they have/haven't answered yet. Use as shown below for this feature. !D:\PPE\PV\PRO-VOTE.PPE L Now has a SysOp maintenance module (MAINT.PPE)!! Just drop it in the same dir as PRO-VOTE.PPE and you're set. Make sure you add the names of those users, including you, that you want to have access to this. Also includes an UPDATE.PPE module to automatically take care of some minor name changes made this release. Once done you can delete it. I discuss this more below... Changes/Fixes in version 3.6 ﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄ No major changes, smoothed operation, improved speed, cosmetic stuff. Changes/Fixes in version 3.5 No bugs, just features!! ﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄ Added 11th line to CNF file, this is the security level you assign to determine who, if anyone, can add new polls to Pro-Vote. This is apart from the three user names that you can assign to do FULL maintenance! Also added BAR GRAPH support in both the display and bulletin screens! Changes/Fixes in version 3.4 No bugs, just features!! ﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄﾄ Aside from now supporting up to 999 separate polls there's still more! Added 4 lines to the config file, one is MAKEMENU (described below) and three are for your name and 2 other users (if you like) to access the new maintenance module feature (also described below). Some of the files have been renamed to accomodate more polls. Example, the "names list" PRO-VOTE.01N is renamed to NAMELIST.001, and so on. The "poll file" PRO-VOTE.01 is renamed to QUESTION.001, and so on. But we've included UPDATE.PPE in 3.4 so you don't have to do all this. If you're setting up PV for the first time you do not need UPDATE.PPE! Only if you are upgrading from a "previous version" of Pro-Vote do you need it. Put UPDATE.PPE in the same directory as PRO-VOTE.PPE and run Pro-Vote, it will rename the file(s) for you. Then delete UPDATE.PPE. But.... >>> BACK UP ALL FILES FIRST <<< Now added a SysOp maintenance module (MAINT.PPE)!! Just drop it in the same dir as PRO-VOTE.PPE and you are set. Make sure you add the names of those users, including you, that you want to have access to this. This feature will allow you, and/or 2 others if you decide, to be able to add new questionnaires, delete old ones, or to reset polls to "0". MAKEMENU! If you want Pro-Vote to make the menu "on the fly" then type this on line # 7. Then you won't have to update your PRO-VOTE.DSP menu when you add and drop polls! If you want to use your own menu called PRO-VOTE.DSP then leave this line blank. Now use Pro-Vote in the security specific logon files with commandline of L to display polls to users to show which polls there are or which they have/haven't answered yet. Use as shown below for this feature. !D:\PPE\PV\PRO-VOTE.PPE L