Working With Polls

You can use the Poll portlet to create polls and deploy them in a user community.

ProcedureTo Create a Poll

Steps
  1. From the Survey Portlet, click New Poll.

  2. In the Poll Details view, type the name of the poll in the Poll Name text field.

  3. Describe additional details about the poll in the Poll Description field.

  4. Click Next.

  5. In the Poll Question view, type the question in the Question field.

  6. Type the answers you want users to choose from in the Answers field.

  7. Select the following if applicable:

  8. Click Done to create the poll.

    The poll is created and is displayed in the Poll Name list.

  9. To preview the Poll, click Preview. In the Preview view, click Back to modify the poll details. Click Create this Poll to complete this task.

ProcedureTo Delete a Poll

Step

ProcedureTo Respond To a Poll

Steps
  1. Locate the poll to which to respond by doing one of the following:

  2. Select the answer for each question in the poll. Click Submit.


    Note - Your response cannot be modified once you submit the response and no option exists to save an incomplete response to the poll. If an asterisk is displayed by a question, the question must be answered.


  3. The selected answers are recorded as your response to the poll.

ProcedureTo View the Poll Results

Steps
  1. Under the Poll Name list, choose the poll to view.

  2. Click the corresponding Responses link.

  3. In the Responses view, the responses received from the community are displayed. Results such as total number of respondents and response percentage are displayed.

  4. To view the response to a question where users have customized the answer, click Other to display the Open Responses view.

  5. Click Close to return to the Responses main view.

  6. Click Close to return to the Poll portlet main page.