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Create Polls in your Mattermost channel Print

Created by: Robin Leung

Modified on: Thu, 14 Oct, 2021 at 10:40 AM

You now have the ability to add polls to your channel.

Usage

/poll "Is Matterpoll great?" creates a poll with the answer options "Yes" and "No". You can also leave out the double quotes and just type /poll Is Matterpoll great?.

If you want to define all answer options by yourself, type /poll "Is Matterpoll great?" "Of course" "In any case" "Definitely"- Note that the double quotes are required in this case.

Poll Settings

Poll Settings provider further customization, e.g. /poll "Is Matterpoll great?" "Of course" "In any case" "Definitely" --progress --anonymous. The available Poll Settings are:

--anonymous: Don't show who voted for what at the end --progress: During the poll, show how many votes each answer option got --public-add-option: Allow all users to add additional options.

Robin is the author of this solution article.

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Create Polls in your Mattermost channel Print

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