There are 3 ways to create pollys in Slack. This help doc will go over each way to create a polly. Additionally, if your created polly is gone, scroll down at the very end to find the answer to it!
First, let’s get started.
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Read more about the basics of Polly for Slack in this guide.
3 ways to create a polly:
- Within Slack: Create pollys using the /polly command
- Within Slack: Create pollys from the Polly Slack Dashboard
- Create through the Polly Web App
1. Create pollys using the /polly command
The launching point to create a polly in Slack is to use the /polly command in the desired text field.
As an example, this can be something like /polly When should we meet? and hit enter.
💡 There are several Slack commands that Polly uses. These allow users to create, see results, share pollys, delete, close, remind, help etc. Check out a list of useful commands here.
For single question pollys you can add up to a maximum of 92 choices/options. Learn more about different question types and how to go about creating them.
For multiple question pollys, you can create them from within Slack as well as from the web app. More around how to create multi-question pollys can be found here.
2. Create pollys through the Polly Slack Dashboard
Alternatively, you can also many different polly types from the Polly Slack Dashboard, to do this follow these 3 easy steps:
- From the left navigation menu click on Polly under Apps.
- Click on the Create a Polly button.
- From the creation modal that pops up, click your desired polly type.
3. Create through the Polly Web Dashboard
Looking for some extra settings? Or want to view your results in a fancy graph?
Head over to our easy to use Web Dashboard which gives you access to advanced authoring settings such as:
- Preview a polly as you create it on the right side of the polly creation window. The interactive preview feature shows you how the questions/choices will appear along with the close date and anonymity settings of the polly..
- Access to a wider variety of question types.
- Share the templates or add collaborators to your pollys.
- Q&A/Suggestion box management
- Access to advance features like exports, demographics, workflows and much more!
✏️Note: If you send a polly in a channel and later more people are added to that channel, the new users will be able to interact with the polly as well. If, however, it was sent as a DM (i.e. sender selects "send by DM" and selects a channel), it will only be sent to users in the channel at the time of sending and not the newly added users.
My polly is not getting sent, what is happening?
The most common cause for this is if you are trying to create a polly in a private channel. To create a polly in a private or shared channel, make sure to add Polly to the channel, by typing /invite @polly in the private channel, or by using the Slack UI. More here.
If you have done the above and are still not able to create a polly, please contact support at contact@polly.ai and we'll make sure to solve it for you!
💡 Having difficulty locating the pollys that you have created? This doc might be of help
I might do something wrong, is there a way to test a polly first before sharing it in a big or large audience 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 as a DM or creating a test channel in Slack and sending it there. Here's how you can do this:
- On Slack, navigate to either your own DM or a test channel
- Begin with the /polly command to initiate a polly
- Fill out all the details you wish to test out and hit Send!