You can use the Poll portlet to create polls and deploy them in a user community.
From the Survey Portlet, click New Poll.
In the Poll Details view, type the name of the poll in the Poll Name text field.
Describe additional details about the poll in the Poll Description field.
Click Next.
In the Poll Question view, type the question in the Question field.
Type the answers you want users to choose from in the Answers field.
Select the following if applicable:
This is a multiple choice question.
The respondent can customize an answer to this question if the user can enter an answer that is not part of your answer list, select this option.
Click Done to create the poll.
The poll is created and is displayed in the Poll Name list.
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.
From the Poll Name list, choose the poll and click Delete.
This deletes the poll from the community.
Locate the poll to which to respond by doing one of the following:
From the Poll Name list, select the poll.
To search for a particular poll, from the Filter List drop-down list, select Custom Filter.
In the Custom Filter dialog box, search for the poll. The search result displays the poll in the Poll Name list. By default, the All Polls option is selected and all the polls in the selected community are displayed.
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.
The selected answers are recorded as your response to the poll.
Under the Poll Name list, choose the poll to view.
Click the corresponding Responses link.
In the Responses view, the responses received from the community are displayed. Results such as total number of respondents and response percentage are displayed.
To view the response to a question where users have customized the answer, click Other to display the Open Responses view.
Click Close to return to the Responses main view.
Click Close to return to the Poll portlet main page.