Participation of Guest Access to Polls

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KlausRKlausR wrote the following post Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:30:37 +0200

Participation of Guest Access to Polls

Hello,
I posted a poll to a group. Some of the group members are linked via guest access. These persons could only view the poll, however were not able to select the checkboxes, i.e. they were not able to participate in the poll. Is it generally not possible for guests to participate in polls, or did I miss to set the correct permissions?

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mario@hub.somaton.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This is not supported. Currently polls can only be answered on items that belong to you. They have to be in your timeline. Guests do not own any items and do not have a timeline...
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- emanuel@labonneheure.ch ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  @Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂ should we include „Participation by guests to polls is not supperted“ or similar in the docu?
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  - pepecyb@hub.hubzilla.hu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    @Ema エマ Yes, it needs to be written in.
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- klaus@hub.cloudlet.ch ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  @Mario Vavti
  Thank you for your clarification.
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pepecyb@hub.hubzilla.hu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
@Hubzilla Support Forum @KlausR

By ‘group’, do you mean a forum channel?

I’ve just tried it out using one of those, and it really isn’t possible to take part in a poll like that with a guest access token (posting comments, on the other hand, works).

I’m not sure, though, where you’d need to go to enable guest access to polls separately.

There is no separate permission for this in the roles.

For the test guest access, I created a ‘Standard-Plus’ contact role that allows everything except uploading to the cloud, editing wikis and web pages, and administration. Even with this contact role assigned, the guest was unable to take part in a poll.
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- klaus@hub.cloudlet.ch ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  @Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂
  Thank you for testing this use case.
  
  With group I mean a privacy group, this means I posted the poll from my channel to several contacts, i.e. I basically did it the same way as you described.
  
  If others would find it useful too, and if technically possible, maybe the participation to polls could generally be linked to another permission, e.g. for posting comments, i.e. if a guest access is permitted to post comments, he is also permitted to participate in polls. This way no separate permission would be necessary.
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  - pepecyb@hub.hubzilla.hu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    @KlausR Ah, OK. So the problem was that the poll was sent to a specific privacy group (i.e. to the connections within that group).
    
    By design, that doesn’t work either, as a guest account doesn’t have its own stream.
    
    Question for @Mario Vavti : Which permission actually applies to polls? I think it should be ‘Can comment on or like my posts’, correct?
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