What is it?
The Polls tool allows you to create engaging poll questions for your site that site visitors can respond to. The title of the Poll represents the question, and you can create up to 12 multiple choice answers for site visitors to choose from. Polls are primarily used for member engagement, and are not ideal for membership surveys.
You can only publish one poll on your organization's website at a time. For greater functionality, you can try using a form instead.
How to Access
Navigate to to Community > Polls.
Adding a New Poll
1. To add a new Poll, begin by clicking on the New plus sign in the top righthand corner.
2. Next, give the Poll a Title. The Title is the poll question. Add the alias in lowercase letters with dashes (-) replacing spaces. Lag is the number of seconds before a poll can be voted again by the same User - we recommend leaving it as is.
3. Enter up to 12 Options, or possible Poll answers, then Save.
Adding a Poll Menu Item
Once the poll has been configured, allow groups access by adding the forum as a Menu Item on your MC Professional site. To create a menu item for the Poll, navigate to Website > Menu Items and select the menu you want to add the menu item to. Click on the "New" plus sign in the top right hand corner.
Under Select Menu Item type, select Polls and choose your new poll.
Give the Menu Item a name (ex. Conference Poll), generate the Alias by hitting the Tab key, then select the menu item under which the new Poll should appear. If the Poll should have a menu item of its own, select Top, then Save.
Lastly, assign the menu item permissions by clicking on the permissions lock at the top of the Menu Manager page.
Here, select the groups who should be able to view this menu item, then Save.
Member View
Here's the Poll from the member's view.
Viewing Poll Results
To view the results of a Poll, click on the Results button at the bottom of the Poll page.
The next page will show the poll's results, and give you the option to navigate between polls.