Polls

How to access

To access the Poll Manager, browse to Components > Polls from the drop-down menu on the admin section.

Description

The Poll Component allows you to create poll questions for your site. Site visitors can then respond to the poll questions. This Component allows you to place up to 12 options for each poll question.  The title of the poll will be the question.

To allow users to access a poll, you will need to add it as a menu item.

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Column Headers

• #. An indexing number automatically assigned for ease of reference.

• Checkbox. Check this box to select one or more items. To select all items, check the box in the column heading. After one or more boxes are checked, click a toolbar button to take an action on the selected item or items. Many toolbar actions, such as Publish and Unpublish, can work with multiple items. Others, such as Edit, only work on one item at a time. If multiple items are checked and you press Edit, the first item will be opened for editing.

• Poll Title: The Title of the Poll. You can click this Title to open the Poll for editing.  The Title also serves as the poll's question.

• Published. Whether the item has been published or not. You can change the Published state by clicking on the icon in this column.

• Votes: The number of total votes in each poll.

• Options: The number of options, or questions, in each poll.

• Lag: The number of seconds before a poll can be voted again by the same User.

• ID. The ID number. This is a unique identification number for this item assigned automatically. It is used to identify the item internally and you can not change this number.

• Display #. The number of items to display on one page. If there are more items than this number, you can use the page navigation buttons (Start, Prev, Next, End, and page numbers) to navigate between pages. Note that if you have a large number of items, it may be helpful to use the Filter options, located above the column headings, to limit which items display.

Toolbar

• Publish. To publish one or more items, select them and click on this button.

• Unpublish. To unpublish one or more items, select them and click on this button.

• Delete. To delete one or more items, select them and click this button. The selected items will be deleted.

• Edit. Select one item and click on this button to open it in edit mode. If you have more than one item selected, the first item will be opened. You can also open an item for editing by clicking on its Title or Name.

• New. Click on this button to create a new item. You will enter the New page for this item.

• Help. Opens this Help Screen.

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.

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