Responding to polls and votings

As the creator of a poll, you may want to announce the start of voting by including the link to the poll in a Web page or by distributing it via email, especially when it is a public poll. In this case, you should publish the public link to the poll for anonymous voters, i.e.

http://your-bscw-server/pub/bscw.cgi/poll-id

For authenticated voters with access to the workspace containing the poll, you should advise the use of the ‘authenticated’ access to the poll, i.e. the link

http://your-bscw-server/bscw/bscw.cgi/poll-id

where poll-id is the object id of the poll – to be found as the last number of the URL shown in the address field of your browser when you open the poll. If in doubt, ask your BSCW ad­ministrator about the correct links.

With a voting, start and change of the voting period are automatically announced to the par­tic­ip­ants via email, you need not to become active in this respect.

You as the organizer of a voting may send an email message to the participants.

•      Select   Send to    Participants  in the action menu of the voting, enter your message and hit [OK]. You may send the message to all participants, all part­ic­ip­ants having already voted or not voted yet, or select certain participants to receive your message.

Note that not only the organizer, i.e. creator of a voting, but also the man­ager of a workspace that contains the voting can send messages to the participants.

In order to respond to a poll, you either click on the link published as described above. When you want to respond to a voting, you click on the link which you received via email. If you have access to the workspace of the poll or voting you

•      choose   Open  in the action menu of the poll or voting or click on the respective entry in the folder listing. This will show the questionnaire.

•      Fill in the questionnaire and hit [Submit response] when you are finished. All ques­tions which are marked with an asterisk (*) as man­da­tory have to be answered, other­wise the response will not be not ac­cepted.

Answers to a poll will then be final and cannot be revised any more. With votings, you can still change your mind (see below).

•      At last, the results so far received will be shown if the poll or voting is configured so that participants may access the results.

Responding to a poll or voting is only possible if its time frame has started and not yet ex­pir­ed. Each potential participant in a poll may only vote once. In case of a public poll this is achieved by setting a browser cookie. Participants of a voting can change their mind:

•      Open the voting and click [Change your mind] at the top of the questionnaire and vote again.