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Idea submission and voting application

By: Dave Briggs | Asked: 08/13/2024
Forums › Category: How-to › Idea submission and voting application
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Dave Briggs asked 4 months ago
Hi gang I've a need to have a simple application where users can submit ideas, which are then published in a list, and which other users can then vote on and comment on, if they wish to. Has anyone built something like this using Formidable? Or any thoughts on the best ways to do it? Would it be to have the ideas as posts that are submitted through a form, which are then moderated and published, using WP built in comments - but how to do the voting? Or keep all the data inside Formidable and use views - would this even be possible? OR save myself the hassle and pay for https://fider.io/ or similar!? Grateful for thoughts! ~ Dave
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Victor Font answered 4 months ago
Formidable is quite capable of doing what you want and you can do it with a single form and view.
Dave Briggs replied 4 months ago

That's great to hear! Can you give me a couple of high level pointers on how you'd approach it?

Victor Font replied 4 months ago

I would include a voting field on the form but not display it while users are entering their ideas. Then in the view, display the voting field as a front end edit. For the voting field, I’d probably use a toggle set to 0/1.

Dave Briggs replied 4 months ago

Amazing, thank you so much!

Victor Font replied 4 months ago

I thought about this a little more and think I would use a separate form for voting otherwise if you include the voting field on the idea form, you can only have one vote per idea.

Dave Briggs replied 4 months ago

Yes, I have been looking at this demo, which takes that approach: https://formidableforms.com/demos/trails/

I would quite like the idea submission and voting to be done by non-logged in members, but need to figure out the permissions to enable that!

Victor Font replied 4 months ago

You don’t need to be logged in to fill out a form.

Dave Briggs replied 4 months ago

Yes, that's true but I also want the voting to not be a logged in user activity - not got to this point yet properly but when i was looking at the front end editing there didn't seem to be a permission for not logged in users to edit other fields (ie the star rating). Possible I am over complicating things for myself!!

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