Polls

Polls are a great way to gather opinions. For example, you are in charge of planning an annual sales meeting. You want to find out when most people are available to attend the meeting. Instead of emailing everybody in the sales organization, you could create a poll in the Sales Chatter group. The poll could list possible dates and ask for votes on the date that works best.

When you create a poll, anybody with access to the feed or the poll can vote on the poll. So when you post a poll, consider who you want to participate. For example, if you post a poll in a private group, only the members of that group can see the poll and vote. Keep the following in mind about polls:

• When you create a poll, you can add up to ten choices.
• When voting on a poll, you can select only one choice, but you can change that choice.
• Polls are anonymous. You can see how many people voted, but you can’t see who voted.
• To see the latest poll result and the number of votes that were cast, click Refresh.
• You can’t repost a poll.
• You can mention someone and include hashtag topics in the poll question.
• You and others can add topics to your poll question after posting.
• The email notification options that you enabled in your Chatter Email Settings apply to polls just as they do to posts. For example, if you get a notification whenever someone comments on one of your posts, you’re also notified when someone comments on your poll.

Note The poll result doesn’t always add up to 100 percent due to rounding. For example, if a poll has three choices and each gets one vote, the result adds up to 99 percent.

When you run a global or feed search, you don't see results for poll questions or options. Polls aren’t indexed for searches.

• Create a Poll
  Create polls to gather people’s opinions.
• Vote on a Poll
  Cast your vote on a poll.