Polls make a small decision easy to answer. Write the question in an article's title, give readers a clear set of choices, and add a body when they need background before voting.
The Poll and Its Article Stay Together
A poll is the article's selected summary. It can appear directly in a feed card, then appear again above the full body when someone opens the article. Its publication, audience, comments, and saved state stay with that article.
Use a poll when comparable choices will answer the question. For open-ended proposed answers that readers can rank, use Q&A instead.
Find Polls in the Library
Open Polls from the apps menu to browse the current space or area. Choose the relevant activity or subspace, then open a folder or select a poll. Selecting a poll opens its article, where you can read the context and vote.
Polls follows the current space area and uses its document folders as a browsing path.
The library presents documents rather than result cards. Folders appear before polls, and each group is ordered by title. The poll count excludes folders. Close Folder returns to the selected area's root, even when you have opened several nested folders.
The library also supports selecting cards and, where permitted, renaming, deleting, or moving documents within the same space. These actions affect the underlying documents; they are not just a personal arrangement of shortcuts. Follow Organize Polls before reorganizing a shared library.
Create the poll in the article editor. The normal Polls library does not provide a new-poll composer.
Write Choices That Survive Publication
Choose Poll as the article summary format. The title supplies the question; there is no separate question field on the poll card. Give it enough context to make sense in a compact feed.
A poll begins as a private article draft. Review its options, destination, and save state before publishing.
Editing the option set of a published poll clears its votes. Finalize the choices before asking people to respond. If participation has already begun, do not treat an option edit as a harmless correction to the results.
Vote and Read the Results
Before you vote, the card shows option buttons and the total vote count. Select one choice and wait for the result. The card then replaces the buttons with result bars, percentages, and voter previews.
Current polls have these boundaries:
Participation requires sign-in, joined-space membership, access to a protected area when relevant, and permission to add reactions. Being able to read a public poll does not automatically let you vote.
Common Questions
Can I create a poll directly in Polls?
Use the article editor and select Poll for its summary. Polls is the library for finding those articles. Meetings can also offer a New poll shortcut in their own activity context.
Why does a folder contain no polls?
Folders remain visible for navigation even when none of their current children is a poll you can see. Check the selected area and folder before assuming a poll was deleted.
Why is a known poll missing from the library?
Check its area, folder, publication state, and your access. A busy library may show only part of its contents. Try the article's direct link or find its published post before assuming it was deleted.
Can I see results without revealing who voted?
The current result view includes voter previews. There is no anonymous-poll setting.
Can I fix an option after voting starts?
You can edit when you have article-editing access, but saving the changed option set resets the votes. Plan any restart with the people answering the poll.
Does removing a library card just hide it for me?
No. Delete is a document action. Remove an item from View Later if you only want to clear your personal reminder.