Poll administration

Poll administration screen is the poll home page. It displays important poll details and give you access to the main poll features.

Poll status. The traffic light icon on the right of the screen indicates the poll status. If poll is open for votes the icon lights green. If poll is not accessible it lights red. When poll ia closed (lights red), the poll result is displayed to the users accessing the web page including a poll.

A poll can be closed due to the following reasons:

Closed by date (current date is before start date or after stop date).
Locked by an administrator user (usually yourself). If the poll is locked, the poll designer has edited the poll in some way. The poll cannot be open if it is being edited. To make the poll available immediately, click on “Unlock poll” link under the status icon. You can only unlock the poll that has been locked by you. If another poll designer has locked the poll, you must wait until he is done and the survey has become unlocked.
Error in poll. If the system has detected an error in the poll, it will notify the poll designer by adding an error message at the top of the poll administration screen and change the poll status to Error. Respondents cannot vote because this might result in data inconsistency.
Number of allowed votes has been exceeded. See the section called “Poll behavior”.

Beside poll status, you can also see the important poll details on the administration screen:

Start date. The date when poll becomes available for respondents. Click on the link to edit the date.

Stop date. The date when poll becomes closed for respondents. Click on the link to edit the date.

Number of votes. Displays number of poll responses.
Number of questions - number of questions the poll contains.
Maximum number of votes - number of respondents that can vote. When this number is reached, the poll will be closed and no more respondents will be able to vote. See the section called “Poll behavior”
Allow multiple submissions - method used to prevent respondents from multiple votes, if any. See the section called “Poll behavior”