Add a Poll

Let’s continue on the same page. Now we want to know if the visitors have already heard about Klagenfurt. For that, we will set up a poll. Go into the Selector and type “poll” in the above field to filter the list of available content types. Drag-and-drop the Poll component onto your page. Fill in the Engine and Save.

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The page is then updated with your question and an embedded area to add the possible answers.

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Click on the green “Answer” button to add a new possible answer. You can add as many answers as you want.

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Publish the page and go into Live Mode - your visitors can now vote on your poll (the same user can’t vote more than once). The look and feel of the poll is defined in the CSS of the website and of course can be completely changed.

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What if I want to be notified each time someone votes on this poll?

Jahia provides several mechanisms to do such things. You could add a simple rule in the system saying that each time an “answer” node is created, a mail will be sent to the Administrator, or modify the poll script to call an external system and send you an SMS, for instance.

These last two examples conclude our Quick Start Guide with Jahia. You aren’t an expert yet - and we’ve seen only a very small portion of Jahia’s features – but don’t hesitate to send in your feedback or questions in the Community Section of our website, call our sales team to evaluate your projects or receive more information about our trainings.