Polly Link Sharing and Web Voting

Learn how the polly creators can generate links for their pollys and share them across workspaces or over emails while giving a boost to the response rates.

Want responses to your pollys from non - Slack users or users in a different workspace? Web Voting solves these problems 🎉 

What is Web Voting

Polly web voting in Slack allows the polly creators/authors to collect responses from anyone and everyone, regardless of a Slack account.

Problems it solves

1. Increases response rate. Earlier people not having a Slack ID or in a different workspace or channel could not respond to pollys because only those could respond to it who were in that particular channel. 
2. Reduces the burden of responsibility on the author for increasing the response rate as now the link can be shared in an email, message etc. Anyone can click on the link and respond to the polly

How to set up (for polly creators)

1. Create a polly 
2. After clicking on Submit, a screen will appear (screenshot below)
   
3. A Public Web Voting link will be visible, copy the clickable link and so you can easily share/paste it 
4. When the participants click on the link, they will be directed to a web page whereby they can respond to the polly
   
   

 

If you forgot to copy the Polly URL at the time of creation, you can access it later as well as below:

From within Slack:

1. Go to the polly post in the channel and click on the three dots to access polly settings
2. You will see the Web Voting link here which you can copy.
3. If you want to change the link authentication settings and make it a Protected link or remove the link, click on the Configure button and choose the relevant setting.

From the Web Dashboard:

1. Go to the Web Dashboard
2. Click on the polly you want the link for
3. Click on Share and under the Participants tab you will see the link which you can copy
   
   
   Public Link vs Protected Link:
   1. • By default a public link is generated when you create a Polly which means anyone with the link can vote. On specific plans you also have the option to generate a Protected link. Respondents within your workspace will need to login with their Slack credentials when accessing this link.
      • You can always switch between a public or protected link from this tab, the link itself will remain the same, the change in access level will happen at the back end thus ensuring you don't have to re-share a new link with your audience if you change this setting.
      • If you don't want a web voting link for your polly, you can just select the No Link option.

 

How to respond (for polly respondents)

1. Click on the polly link shared by the polly author
2. It will redirect you to the web page which shows you:
   1. Polly name/title, author name, open & close date
   2. The option to select how you want to respond to the polly i.e. anonymous or non-anonymous. You can add your name in the "Responding as" section. Whatever you enter should be saved for the next time you respond to a polly using the same device. If the question has been set by the host to Anonymous, then you will not see the "Responding as:" section.
   3. New users will be asked for their name and email (optional) after responding to the polly. If they are a returning user on the same device, their entered name will be pre-loaded, but can be edited at any time. They can even choose to go back and edit their name after submitting their response if wanted but they can't go back to Guest user. The respondents will be able to see their own vote on the web but not the votes of other respondents.

 

Viewing Results

Unlike the in-app experience, the results will not be visible to the respondents in real time while voting through the web. They will be visible real time to the respondents who vote within the Slack app (if that is the setting selected by the polly author). On the other hand, the polly sender will have access to the real-time results within the Web Dashboard.

If your respondents are a combination of web voters and within Slack voters then your results display will look something like the below i.e. the web responders will have (web) written next to their name