The “Poll” widget: let your visitors vote

With the Poll widget you ask your visitors questions with set answers, such as “Who do you want to hear at the next Resonance?”. Signed-in visitors can vote, once and anonymously. A vote cannot be changed.

The widget exists on every page – profile, venue, crew, event series and event – and in news articles. On pages, the owner and the team can add it.

How to create a poll

1. Open your page, tap Edit in the bar, then Add a widget here.
2. Choose the tile Poll in the group Community.
3. Under Question, write what people vote on (at most 300 characters).
4. Under Answers, enter at least 2 and at most 10 answers (at most 120 characters each). Type the next one into the empty row New answer …; empty answers are not included, duplicates are not accepted.
5. If people may pick several answers, switch on Allow several answers. Percentages then refer to participants, so they can add up to more than 100 %.
6. Add more questions with Add question – up to 10. Voters have to answer every question.
7. Tap Insert, then Save in the bar.

End of the poll

Under More options, set a Date and a Time for Ends on. The time zone shown applies (Europe/Berlin). From that moment the poll is closed and the result is visible to everyone. Without an end, the poll stays open. Reset takes a chosen end out again.

Several languages

With Add language under General you write the poll in more languages. The question needs a text in every language. Answers you do not translate appear in another available language. The votes count for all languages.

Changing it once people have voted

Once people have voted, some things are fixed: you can no longer add or remove a question, a question’s text and its Allow several answers setting stay as they are, and answers that have votes can be neither changed nor deleted. Still allowed: new answers, translations, the order of the questions and a different end while the poll is running. A poll that has ended and has votes stays ended.

If saving is refused for this reason, the window shows “There are votes already. Answers are locked. Questions cannot be added or removed.” and brings back the saved answers; new answers and translations you typed are kept. After saving, you can add a translation or a new answer again.

What visitors see

• Signed out: “Sign in to vote and see the result.” with Sign in.
• Signed in: the answers to choose from and Vote. With several questions it says how many are answered so far.
• After voting: the result with Your answer and the number of votes. From 20 votes there is a breakdown By gender and By age; groups under 5 people are merged so that no answer can be traced back to a person.
• After the end: Closed, voting is no longer possible.

Common problems

• “At least 2 answers.” Enter a second answer.
• “The question in … is missing.” Switch to that language in the language bar and write the question.
• “The end is in the past.” Choose a later date or take the end out with Reset.
• “Time is missing.” A date needs a time in the format HH:MM.
• “A poll answer that already has votes cannot be changed or removed.” Restore the answer and save again.