Poll Choices are the options that a Poll has for voters to vote on. You can add as many choices as are needed for the poll.

Poll Choices are managed using the Content Control > Poll > Choices module.

Add New Poll Choice

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1. Select a Content Group from the list to filter content by that Content Group. Content Groups are created and managed in the User Setup > Manage Content Groups module. See Content Groups for details.
2. Select a poll topic from the Topics drop-down list.
3. Select a poll from the Polls drop-down list.
4. Click on the Add New button.
5. The Poll Choice Editor will then appear. Fill in the 'Choice' and 'Votes' field. You can also assign a media for the poll choice by clicking on the 'Select Media' button.
6. Click on the Add Now button.

Manage Poll Choices

You can manage existing poll choices at any time as follows:

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Edit Choices

Click on the Edit icon to modify a poll choice.
Modify the poll choice values as needed.
Click Save Now icon to save your changes.

Remove Choices

Removing a poll choice is a permanent action that cannot be undone.

Click on the Remove icon to remove the poll choice.

Click OK to confirm.

Remove Selected Choices

Click on the selection checkboxes of the choices that are to be deleted. Then, click on the the Remove Selected button.

A dialog will show up indicating the number of choices selected and asking for confirmation about the removal. Click on the OK button to proceed with the removal.

Publishing, Unpublishing and Resetting votes for the Poll

Publishing the selected poll causes the information regarding the poll and its associated poll choices to be pushed to Bannister Lake's Polling Widget Application. This will allow the poll to be shown and interacted with by the public via a URL generated by the Polling Widget.

Unpublishing basically deletes the information from the Polling Widget Application and the URL associated with the poll will no longer be active.

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Publish the poll

Click on the Publish button to publish (or re-publish) the poll.

Once publishing has completed successfully, the published status information below the 'Publish' button show 'Yes'. Also, the 'Unpublish' button will be enabled.

To see the date and time of when the poll was published or the URL generated by the Polling Widget, click on the information icon.

You can click on the URL link to open up a new browser tab to show the output of the Polling Widget or copy the URL and use it as your purposes dictate.

Unpublish the poll

Click on the Unpublish button the remove the poll from the Polling Widget.

Once the poll has been unpublished, the published status information below the 'Publish' button will revert to 'No'. Also, the 'Unpublish' button will be disabled.

Reset all votes for poll

Resetting the votes will set the vote value for all poll choices in the poll to 0. If the poll has been published, the poll information will be re-published automatically to the Polling Widget to update it's output for the poll.

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