Create a Quick Poll on a Page (Atlas 5.0+)

The Quick Poll web part is new with Atlas 5.0 and can be added to pages in any workspaces, even those which are not part of Atlas!

In this article:

• Add the Quick Poll web part
• Configure the Quick Poll web part
  • Poll Settings
  • Layout
  • Item Template
  • Export/Import Settings
• Retrieve results from a Poll
  
  

Add the Quick Poll web part

To get started, first go to the page where you want to host a Poll, and edit the page.

1. Choose the section you'd like to add the Poll to, then hover in that section and click on the + on the horizontal bar to add a web part:
   
2. Type "poll" into the search box and then click the Quick Poll (Atlas) web part to add it:
   

Configure the Quick Poll web part

Once you have added the web part, get started by clicking Configure on the web part. This will open a panel on the right hand side of the page.

Poll Settings

The first section is the Poll Settings. This is where you can configure the questions and answers for the poll, messages shown to users and the Chart type:

• In the first button Manage questions you can set the questions and answers. Click the button and another panel will appear:
  
• To add a question you need to fill in at least the Question Title and Choices. Each choice should be added on a new line and you can add up to 6 response options. You can also toggle multiple selections on or off, and set Start and End dates to control when the poll appears. If you do not fill in the dates the poll will always be shown until it is removed.
• To add another question, click the + on the far right side, then fill in the fields as you did for the first question.
• Once you've finished adding questions and responses click Save.
  
  
• Under the Manage questions button you'll find a few fields to set the various messages in the web part. You can leave these as the defaults or change them to your preference:
  
• You can hover over the "info" icon in the top right of each field to see the description.
  
  
• Next you can choose the preferred Chart type for when the results are being shown. The default is Pie but you have five options:
  
  
  
• Finally, you can restrict the poll so results can only be seen by Workspace Owners by toggling the following setting to On:
  

Layout

The second section is for the Layout settings.

• Firstly you can choose whether to show the web part when it has no results, and whether to show the number of results (polls) being shown:
  
• Next you can choose Carousel or Grid layout - Carousel shows one question at a time with the ability to page through, while Grid shows all questions in a grid:
  
• Finally you can set the Paging settings which are the same available for In Focus web parts:
  

Item Template

Next we have the Item Template section.

• Currently there is only one template available here, but you can set the Card Theme:
  
• You can also toggle whether to use a Header Image. If we toggle this on we will get some additional options to filter the image using your theme colours:
  
• The Header will appear above your questions like the example below, so you may want to create some bespoke images. Note that the image will be same for all questions in the same web part:
  
  
  

Export/Import Settings

Finally we have the Export/Import Settings.

• At the top you can choose the Global or This workspace storage to import from or export to:
  
• To export your current settings, type a descriptive name into the File name box and then click Save settings:
  
• To import existing settings, click Import settings at the bottom of the panel and choose the file with the settings you want:
  
  
  

Retrieve results from a Poll

To learn how to get the results from your Poll, please see here: Retrieve the results from a Quick Poll