Creating polls
#1
Some of you might hesitate to create a poll because you've never done it before, but it really is quite simple. When you start a new thread by clicking on "new topic", you can compose your message as normal, then go to the bottom of the screen. You will see three tabs, "options", "upload attachments and "Poll creation". Click on the last tab. You will need to enter the question, say for a photo poll, ask, "which photos do you like best", so something like that. Below that, you need to list your options. The simplest way would be to list all the names you have choices for, putting a carriage return after each name. Adding links to the name becomes more complex and I'll show you how to do that in another post. You can have up to 20 options in a poll. If you need more than that, let me or Mikey know and we can change that.

After that, you will have to say how many choices each voter has. If one, put "1" in the "options per user" box. If it's OK to vote for more than one option, put that number in that box. You cannot have a larger number than options though. Lastly, you should set a length of time the poll should run by putting the number of days in the appropriate box. The poll will automatically close at that time. The "allow re-voting" box doesn't seem to matter whether it's checked or not, that function doesn't seem to work right now and we don't know why. Once your poll has been created, just click on "submit" the way you normally would. You can edit a poll in the same manner you would edit a post, and you have one day to do that before that function closes.
Don (ezdays) Day
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founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
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#2
A more complex poll would include links in the options list. Each entry on the list would look like this:

Code:
[url=LINK][color=#FFD700]NAME[/color][/url][color=#FF0000]FUNCTION[/color]
Where "LINK" would be a link to a picture or a thread, "NAME" could be the name of the member that posted the picture or project, and "FUNCTION" would be some other description such as "completed" or "Not finished"... The color can be anything you choose, but in this case, I've chosen gold for the member's name, and red for the function.

Using a line from a voting poll from one of our recent challenges, the results might look like this:
e-paw-K-1 loco Complete

That should about do it for how to put together a poll. If there are any questions, please feel free to ask anyone on the Big Blue staff.
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
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