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Polls
The Polls module is disabled by default. To enable the module, see: Advanced.
Polls make it easy to learn about your customers’ opinions and preferences. The poll occupies a small amount of space and is usually placed in the right sidebar of a catalog page. Poll results appear immediately after a response is submitted. If you create multiple polls, a new poll appears each time the page is refreshed.
Original Poll and Results
To create a poll:
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On the Admin menu, select CMS > Polls. |
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In the upper-right corner of the Poll Manager, click the Add New Poll button. |
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In the Poll Information section, do the following: |
Poll Information
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Enter the Poll Question. |
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By default, Status is set to “Open.” If you later want to remove the poll from your store, set Status to “Closed.” |
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Set Visible In to the store view where you want the poll to appear. |
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In the panel on the left, select Poll Answers. Then, for each answer, do the following: |
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Click the Add New Answer button. Then, do the following: |
Assigned Answers
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In the Answer Title field, enter the answer as you want it to appear in the poll. |
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To weight an answer, enter a number in the Votes Count field. The number will increment each time a customer chooses the answer. |
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Click the Save Poll button to save your poll. |
To prevent multiple voting:
You can protect the poll results by preventing people from voting multiple times from the same computer.
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On the Admin menu, select System > Configuration. Then in the panel on the left under General, select Web. |
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Click to expand the Polls section. |
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Set Disallow Voting in a Poll Multiple Times from Same IP Address to “Yes.” |
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When complete, click the Save Config button. |
To edit a poll:
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From the Poll Manager list, click to open the poll in edit mode. Then, make the necessary changes. |
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To close the poll so that it no longer appears in the store, set Status to “Closed.”
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To see the vote count for each answer, click Poll Answers in the panel on the left.
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When complete, click the Save Poll button. |
Poll Answer Count
