How Do I Create A Poll?

How Do I Create A Poll?

This Article Is For:

  • All users who have: Manage Polls permissions
  • This is applicable to: All Themes

Notes:

  • Polls are limited to 1,000,000 votes total, after which it will no longer accept any new votes.
  • If a user clears their browser history, they can vote more than once

These instructions are for creating a poll, which can then be added to a page, blog or contest.

Step-by-step guide

  1. Go to [ Website > Content Elements > Polls ]
  2. Click the [Add New Poll ] button
    1. Title : Name of your poll
    2. Description : A description and/or media to your poll
    3. Poll Option Type : Using the drop-down, select 'Standard', 'Image' or 'Video' (All media attached to poll options have a standard 16:9 crop for uniform display so that poll answers can be easily read)
      1. Standard : This is the basic/general poll option (that we previously offered)
      2. Image : This allows you to add an image to your options/label
      3. Video : This allows you yo add a video to your options/label
    4. Add Poll Option : Fill in the options/labels for your poll. (Ex. yes, no, maybe )If you wish to add more labels to your poll click the [ Add Poll Option ] button.
    5. Start Date : Using the calendar, select the start date and time for your poll.
    6. End Date : Using the calendar, select the end date and time for your poll
    7. Poll Group : Add this poll to a poll group, by either clicking on 'choose from most used poll groups', using the 'auto-fill' if the poll group already exists or type in the Poll Groups box to add a new poll group, and click ' Add '

  3. Click the [ Save ] button

Image Example (Front-End)


Video Example (Front-End)




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