How To Add A Poll To Slack

Creating Pollys in Slack

Larn three ways of how to create polls and surveys in Slack with Polly. Additionally, if your created polly is gone, scroll down at the very end to observe the answer to it!

Getting Started

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R ead more than about the basics of Polly for Slack in this guide.

From where tin can I create a polly?

Pollys can be created in iii different ways:

Create pollys from inside Slack
Create through the Polly app in Slack
Create through the Polly Web App

one. Create pollys from within Slack

The launching point to create a polly in Slack is to employ the /polly command.

Type something like /polly When should nosotros meet? and hit enter.

✏️ Notation: To create a polly in a individual or shared channel, brand sure to add Polly to the channel, by typing /invite @polly in the individual channel, or by using the Slack UI.

For single question pollys you can add upto a maximum of 92 choices/options. Acquire more virtually different question types and how to go nigh creating them

For multiple question pollys, you tin can create them from within Slack too equally from the web app. More effectually how to create multi-question pollys can be establish here

💡 Unlike Slack commands on how to create, results, share, delete, close, remind, help etc.

2. Create through the Polly app in Slack

Alternatively, you can too create recurring or multi-question pollys through the polly app in Slack. Just click the 🔗 Create Avant-garde Pollybutton and you'll be directed to the Polly web app to begin authoring a polly.

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iii. Create through the Polly Spider web App

Looking for some extra settings? Or want to view your results in a fancy graph? Or maybe you just want to use one of our templates, head over to our easy to use spider web app.

While creating pollys through the web app you get to:

Preview a polly equally you create it on the right side of the polly creation window. The preview characteristic shows you how the questions/choices will appear, close engagement & anonymity setting
Have extra settings customisation e.thou. adding a message to your multi-question pollys, a wider variety of question types etc
Sharing the results of your pollys and/or your pollys
Editing pollys i.due east. after sending a polly you want to brand some changes to it like updating the close date (i.e. runtime of a polly), editing existing questions, anonymity settings etc.
Accelerate features similar exports, demographics, workflows and much more!

Here is a quick video guide on how to create and send pollys from the web app:

✏️Note: If yous send a polly in a channel and later more than people go added to that channel, the new users will be able to interact with the polly as well. If yet it was sent as a DM (i.e. sender selects "send by DM" and selects a aqueduct), it volition only be sent to users in the channel at the fourth dimension of sending.

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Help! The polly that I created is gone and I tin't detect it!

Don't worry! You tin can view all your open, recurring and airtight pollys by typing the/polly resultscommand on Slack. A popular-up will announced displaying all your past pollys — just coil to find the polly you are looking for. If this doesn't give you what you are looking for, go to the polly web app dashboard.

The polly I created is actualization as sent but I don't see it in the channel. Where did information technology go?

This typically happens when a polly is sent via DM. If you added multiple channels or a channel + individuals, the polly is sent not in the channel only as DM. The check box underneath gets checked past default in this case (equally seen below)

audience selection

So basically, if you desire polly to announced in a channel then only one channel needs to be added in the audience while making certain that the "transport polly via straight message" box is not checked. The reason for this beliefs is that many a times we accept the same people in multiple channels so results will become skewed if the same people submit multiple responses.

Another reason for this could the Slack block kit (UI) character limitation. Nosotros use them to layout our UI components that allows respondents to vote. The block kit has a limitation of 3000 characters per department. If you lot employ too much text in your choices then you are probable to run into this Slack block kit limitation. As this isn't a Polly limitation so from our end it shows that the polly is sent however, the Slack UI blocks it from actualization.

My polly is not getting sent, what is happening?

Information technology is likely that the issue is as answered in the higher up question. If all the same, it is not even appearing as sent in the web app then there should be some error message as to why it is happening. If it is neither of these scenarios and then please write to usa at contact@polly.ai and nosotros'll make sure to solve it for you!

I might do something incorrect, is there a way to test a polly first before sharing it in a big or large audition channel?

You definitely can! If you want to test out a polly on your own, you can do so by either sending a polly to yourself every bit a DM or creating a exam channel in Slack and sending information technology there. Here'due south how you tin can do this: