how do you do a poll in confluence?
Asked by John Little:

We use confluence for technical documentation

Now the company wants to use it as an intranet, after our recomendation.

But to our shock, confluence seems to have no intranet features at all.

How does one conduct a poll? This is the most basic feature which all the free wiki/CMSs (e.g. drupal, mambo, joomla, phpnuke, wordpress etc) have.

The only thing I can find is a paid for survey plugin which costs $500, which is completely out of reach for a small company just to ask to vote where to have a the christmas party.

Any ideas? It has to be free.

It would be a shame to have to manage confluence AND another wiki system just of the intranet.


Answers:
author: Thomas Schlegel
body: Hi John,

the survey plugin is free: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/195>

Cheers

Thomas

comments: author: Joe Clark
body: Yep, we use the Survey plugin's "Vote macro" on Atlassian's Confluence intranet too, and it works pretty well :)


author: John Little
body: Survey plugin is a nice find. Unfotunately, it doesnt work on 4.2 (which we have), only on 4.1.2.

Ill get the team to hold on until its updated.


author: Joe Clark
body: Even thought it's not explicitly marked as compatible with Confluence 4.2, there's a good chance it will work fine anyway - you should test it out and see how you go :-)


author: Aparna SasiKumar
body: Survey plugin is not free anymore.. is there an alternative?


author: Chad@ Norwood
body: Free alternative - multi vote

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.tngtech.confluence.plugin.multivote/server/overview>


author: Rosie Pinnock
body: Is there a free supported poll plug in please?


author: JayD
body: I'm also shocked that there is no basic poll or survey feature in Confluence. It is a such a basic component of a collaboration tool. C'mon Atlassian!


author: Carol Jones
body: Looks like the Multivote plugin is free: [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210786/multivote-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210786/multivote-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)


author: Carol Jones
body: Oops sorry - Didn't see Chad's comment from earlier and don't know how to delete mine ?


author: Rosie Pinnock
body: Is there a supported plugin though?


author: JayD
body: Ah, thanks Carol. I'll check it out. Gotta ask IT.

I still think Atlassian should have it part of standard-issue Confluence.


author: Jen
body: Is there a free option for cloud ?


author: Reza Ghorbani
body: Pretty lame that a basic feature such as voting is not included as basic.

comments: author: allison.ruby
body: AGREED!


author: Gabriella
body: none are free, is there a free alterantive or a function that will be added to confluence?

comments: author: Jamie McCarogher
body: Hi Gabriella, did you come across any alternatives for this?


author: Danielle Palmiero
body: An integrated poll system is essential when running multiple work-from -home-teams. As most platforms offer this plug-in for free, Confluence needs to support their customer base and stay with market competition trends.

comments: author: Sarah
body: I agree!


author: Jane Engler
body: I've created a ticket with Atlassian requesting they create an in-built macro for polling in Confluence. I'm amazed this is not already a feature. Please go and vote for the ticket! The more votes the more likely they are to make this change.

<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-70726>


author: Remo Siegwart
body: You may also want to try my Polls plugin, which lets you create simple polls to make choices or schedule events within Confluence: <https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.simplenia.confluence.plugins.polls>


author: Jen
body: I suppose it's how you set it up. We've been using web-based products; Iframe macro


author: Julius Friedrich
body: Hey,

you might want to try [Instant Polls](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1222742/instant-polls?hosting=server&tab=overview). It has a very nice integration into Confluence pages, lots of configuration options and beautiful charts :)


author: softcrts
body: Hi,

With "Polls and Questions For Confluence", you can add polls, set up colors and options, like one or multiple votes per person. End a vote and notify voters. I hope it will help.

[https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220521/polls-and-questions-for-confluence?hosting=server\&tab=overview](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1220521/polls-and-questions-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview)  
<https://softcrts.com/polls/index.php>

comments: author: Jen
body: no cost has expired


author: Carol Jones
body: We are currently running Confluence 4.4.5 and the survey plugin works as designed, even though it's not explicity marked for this version. Although it seems it is only able to complete single-select and we're looking to incorporate multi-select options. I know the polls plugin includes this functionality, but I don't think we'd be able to justify the cost. Does anyone know of a way to incorporate multi-select options somehow using the survery plugin?


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