Hi Forum Team,

I went into a forum to enable polls, and when I click on save it falls over with this message:

ActiveTabName: Poker Forums
RawURL: /PokerForums/tabid/378/ctl/ForumEdit/mid/1206/forumid/30/Default.aspx
AbsoluteURL: /Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer: http://www.pokerdiy.com/PokerForums/tabid/378/ctl/ForumEdit/mid/1206/forumid/30/Default.aspx
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: cec8e1ca-07d3-4ea1-8736-11c5aaad6028
InnerException: Conversion from string "" to type 'Integer' is not valid.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDouble
StackTrace:
Message: DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.PageLoadException: Conversion from string "" to type 'Integer' is not valid. ---> System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "" to type 'Integer' is not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format. at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDouble(String Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat) at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String Value) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String Value) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Forum.ForumEdit.cmdUpdate_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.LinkButton.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.LinkButton.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.LinkButton.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Something to do with a setting type conversion I assume?

Is there any other logic other than setting a flag in the DB against the forum? If not then I'll run a SQL script - I want it on all forums.

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*edit* Sorry, wrong Cut and Paste!

Thread Status is enabled, but one thing I noticed is that Forum Behaviour has no items in the ddl.

I updated the poll flag via SQL (and I can see it checked in the UI now), but I still don't have the ability to make polls in that forum.

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Sorry, I did not realise that you needed to set the thread status to "Poll" to make polls - I can actually do this now in the forum that I enabled via SQL. So the problem is the setting save does not work but I can make polls once I change it in the DB.

I am worried that my users are not going to know that that is how they can make polls - many of them never even use Thread status, and they not going to think that the Thread Status ddl is related to creating a poll in any way.

It would be nice to have a button "Create a Poll" next to "Create new Thread" that opened up the posting form but with the Thread Status set to "Poll" and the options enabled, otherwise I fear my users are never going to see or use it. Just a thought...

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