06_answers_management
In the polls administration module, each poll has an "Actions" section containing possible actions that can be run for each poll.
One of these buttons allows to display the list of the answers submitted by the users. Clicking on it takes to the aPollAnswerAdmin module. The module allows to show each answer individually.
A more useful way to analyze user-submitted answers is to export them or to render them in a report. A "Reports" menu is available in the "Actions" section of the polls administration module.
By default, apostrophePollPlugin provides export support to CSV (comma-separated values) and to Excel files.
Each poll contains specific data, which may be displayed in different ways. For example, a poll may be statistically analyzed and a contact form may contain the email of the person who requires an information. apostrophePollPlugin is not aware of the content of a poll and cannot provide specific behaviours (like a chart) automatically.
Depending on the type of data collected by the poll, you may want to render them in a particular and specific way. To cite some examples, it may be useful to display an HTML report with interactive statistical charts, a pdf report with beautiful charts and rich texts, and so on.
Tanks to the symfony structure, it is very easy to provide new export types to apostrophePollPlugin. As for polls, an export feature is a set of actions, templates and configuration parameters.
Reports must be declared with the following structure:
# app/frontend/config/aPoll.yml
all:
settings:
reports:
...
excel:
label: Export to excel
action: aPollPollAdmin/exportToExcel
is_generic: true
...
Where excel is the report identifier, label is the name of the report, action is the action that will render the report and is_generic defines if the report may be applied to any kind of poll. Exporting to excel and CSV may be applied to any poll. A statistical report will probably be very specific to a particular kind of poll.
If is_generic is set to false, the report will be enabled only for those polls which explicitly require it (see chapter 4).
To learn how excel exporting works, have a look at plugins/apostrophePollPlugin/modules/aPollPollAdmin/actions/actions.class.php.
Reports may be defined in different locations. As explained in chapter 4, the cascading configuration is particulary useful to add new report types from externals sources like other plugins or from the project itself. Reports may be declared in the aPoll.yml file and will be collected in the apoll_settings_reports array by the configuration mechanism.