If your organization has purchased the Quick Poll feature, you can use this procedure to create a single-question survey (quick poll) on a page of its own. If you want to create a quick poll to be reused on numerous pages throughout your site, see Creating a quick poll pagelet.
Navigate to the page that will be the parent of the new page. See Parent and child pages if you are unsure what this means.
Mouse over the +Childpage button and select Quick Poll from the list of page types. If you do not see the +Childpage button you may have insufficient user rights to add pages: speak to your system administrator.
Complete the Page Summary and the General Properties sections of the page.
In the Quickpoll Question editor window, enter and format the text of the question you wish to poll on.
In the Quickpoll Items editor window, enter each possible answer. Be sure to enter only one answer per line.
Click Save.
Complete the Quickpoll Click Once PropertiesQuickpoll Click Once Properties.
Allow Vote Once - check this checkbox if you want to allow users to have only one vote.
Vote Once Authentication - in order to ensure a user only votes once, the system must have some way to track that a particular user has already voted. You can elect to have the system track if a user has voted by tracking the user's IP Address, by placing a cookie on their system, by tracking their user information for the current session, or by tracking the username only if they must log in to vote. In the event that a user tries to vote more than once, the item you select here will be checked by the system and a message displayed saying they cannot vote more than once.
Note: Some network systems have the same IP address for multiple users. Be sure your system does not operate this way if you are selecting the IP Address option.
Default Vote Message Text - the text you enter here is displayed if you have limited the allowable votes to one and the user attempts to vote again. If you do not enter anything, the default message is "Only one vote is allowed per user".
Cookie Message Text - the text you enter here is displayed if the user's system is set to not allow persistent cookies, and you have selected the Persistent Cookie method of tracking if the user has voted already. If you do not enter anything, the default system message is "The system was unable to process your vote. This feature is only available if your browser is set to allow persistent cookies."
Authenticated User Message Text - the text you enter here is displayed if an unauthorized user attempts to vote. This is for instances where users are required to log into the web site in order to vote. If you do not enter anything, the default message is "This feature is only available for authenticated users. Please log in before voting."
Click Save.
Complete the Quickpoll View PropertiesQuickpoll View Properties.
Vote Button Text - the text you enter here is displayed on the voting button on the published poll.
Show Results after Vote - check this checkbox if you wish to show a running tally to the user after they have voted. It will display a bar graph showing the total number of votes and the percentage of voters that have voted for each option.
Show Results Link - if you select this checkbox, a link to the results is displayed beside the vote button so that a user can view the results at any time.
Click Save.
Enter the Thank You Message in the text editor window. This text gets displayed just above the Quick Poll content.
See the Content editor overview and Content editor toolbar topics.
Using the Advanced Layout Options, you can change the formatting of the quick poll. The current format is displayed in the Current Results window.
Click Save and submit for publication.