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Creating a poll

The easiest way to create a poll is to use the poll builder. The poll builder can be accessed from the image in the topic composer, and allows you to make a poll without needing to know the exact syntax.

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Manually creating a poll

To create a poll surround a markdown list with [poll] and [/poll]

[poll ]
- option one
- option two
- option three
[/poll]

or

[poll ]
* option one
* option two
* option three
[/poll]

or, for numbered options—

[poll]
1. option one
2. option two
3. option three
[/poll]

Any of the above create the following result:

  1. option one
  2. option two
  3. option three

0 voters

You can also make a poll with multiple choices. Simply add type=multiple to the opening tag like so:

[poll name="poll_multiple1" type=multiple]
- option one
- option two
- option three
[/poll]

This creates the following result:

  • option one
  • option two
  • option three

0 voters

Polls can even include images! When including images in polls you may wish to adjust the image size to avoid overly large images.

[poll type=regular]
* ![image|690x458,25%](upload://2u570X7kQiPJQaJD1Bd8MLDHDNB.jpeg)
* ![image|690x334,25%](upload://35fmeFw8RMywSxIc4lbCb8UHPaT.jpg)
* ![image|690x499, 50%](upload://xSDkRwmuj1pNc2QXKzthfXRlwsX.jpg)
[/poll]

Polls can include relative dates!

[poll " type=regular]
* [date=2019-10-13 timezone="Europe/Paris"]
* [date=2019-10-12 timezone="Europe/Paris"]
* [date=2019-10-11 timezone="Europe/Paris"]
[/poll]
  • 2020-10-12T22:00:00Z
  • 2020-10-11T22:00:00Z
  • 2020-10-10T22:00:00Z

0 voters

For a numbered poll, enter the following:

[poll name="poll_number1" type=number min=1 max=10]
[/poll]

Which produces:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10

0 voters

You can also have it increment the numbers in steps using step=X

[poll type=number min=2 max=10 step=2]
[/poll]

Which produces:

  • 2
  • 4
  • 6
  • 8
  • 10

0 voters

If multiple polls are used in a single post (like this one!) be sure to give each poll a unique name , or they will not work. Do this by adding name="poll_name" as a parameter.

[poll name="poll_1"]
1. option one
2. option two
3. option three
[/poll]

[poll name="poll_3" type=multiple min=2 max=3]
- option one
- option two
- option three
- option four
[/poll]

[poll name="poll_5" type=number min=2 max=10 step=2]
[/poll]

Lastly, any poll can have the voters made “public” by adding public=true to the parameter list.

[poll public=true]
- Yes
- No
- Maybe
[/poll]
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