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    The Poll Module

    Polls can serve multiple purposes on your Facebook Page. You can do market research, preference research, and promote events or products, all by asking the right question. To get your fans' opinions, add a Poll module to your Content & Apps View.

    Adding Poll Modules to Content & Apps Views

    All modules are added to a View in the same way with our drag-and-drop interface. To get more information on this, see the Building a View: Adding Modules and Content to Views in Content & Apps help article.

    Once you have added a module and given it a name, the module will open for you to edit it or add content. Back on the View layout, you'll see a callout bubble next to your module - click the triangle for controls for your module. This callout will not appear on your published View and your new module will not appear on your Facebook Tab until you click Publish.

    Adding Polls to Poll Modules

    When you drag-and-drop a Poll module onto a View, it will automatically open to the edit page for that module. To add a poll on a module you've already created:

    1. Next to your Poll module you’ll see a callout bubble. Click the green triangle next to the title. You can either create a new poll or view the results of a previous poll.
    2. Click New Poll. A window will appear where you can add the following details to your poll:
      • Title: Enter a name for your poll. This will appear on your Facebook Page and will also be used to keep track of results when you have multiple polls. You will be able to see the results of past polls in the Oracle Social Marketing Content & Apps interface, so be sure to give each poll a unique title.
      • Attach Poll Image: Click this button to add an image that will appear on your poll.
      • Description: Enter text describing what you're after with this poll, or use it to entice your fans to take the poll.
      • Poll Question: Enter the question for your poll (you can only have one question per poll).
      • Allow multiple votes (checkboxes): If you want people to be able to choose more than one answer, select this option. Otherwise the options will appear with a option next to each answer.
      • Poll option: There are 3 text fields for creating an answer option for your poll.

        Note: You can enter HTML for images, to have an option be an image.

      • Add ®: If an answer to your poll is a product, you may want to indicate that it is a registered trademark. Click Add ® to put a ® onto the end of the poll answer.
      • Allow open input: If you'd like to get general feedback on something, you can include a text box for fans to type in anything they want. You can review the answers later in Oracle Social Marketing Content & Apps.
      • Add Another Option Field By default the polls module displays three option boxes, but you can add up to 50 options.
    3. Click Create Poll to finish your poll.

    Note: You can add multiple Poll modules to your page, but each module can contain only one poll.

    If you've just added your Poll module, you will need to publish it to make it visible on Facebook. From your View layout page, click Publish to Facebook.

    Note: You can allow fans to share your polls, the results of your poll or both. If you don't want these to be shareable, click the Sharing checkbox next to the part you don't want to be shared.

    Viewing Poll Results

    1. In the poll callout bubble, click the green triangle next to the title.
    2. Click View Results. You will see a new page listing all the polls that you've run so far. Click Details on a poll to see the results.
    3. On the results page you will see an option to Download Open Input Answers. Click that link to save a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file that lists what fans typed into the options where you selected to Allow open input.

    Note: Each Poll module has its own results page listing the polls that have run in that module. If you want to clear your list of results, delete the existing Poll module and create a new one.

    Replacing Polls

    If you want to change the poll that's in your module now, just click Add New and fill out the form. Your new poll will replace the current one in the module. The results from the last poll will still be available when you click View Results.

    About Metrics Recorded for the Poll Module

    Content & Apps captures metrics for:

    • Module views
    • Poll vote

    Customizing a Poll Module

    All customization happens in the brand CSS page.

    All modules take up 100% of the containers they are in, so you can resize them to whatever size you need with CSS.

    General Rules

    • There is no character limit for the poll description or poll options.
    • The poll question has a character limit of 256 characters.
    • The poll description, question and option fields support HTML.
    • Image source code can be entered into the option field to make the poll option an image.
    • Poll image will be resized to a maximum width of 80 pixels

    What Can I Customize?

    • Fonts and colors of text
    • Vote button and share buttons can be customized

    • Poll results can be moved, but it is very tricky.

      Developer Hint: there is a container around the poll results, but there is no container around the poll itself, so moving the results to the side of the poll can be difficult.

    • Poll description can be moved from the top to the bottom.
    • Bar color for the results can be customized with a solid color or an image, but all the bars will look the same.
    • If you choose to display the poll results as a pie chart, you can modify the colors that appear, but that has to be done in the Brand Settings CSS area of Content & Apps.
    • Options can be moved up and down in relation to the answer.

    What Is Not Customizable?

    • Always have to be radio buttons, unless multiple choice selected.

    Class Name Constants

    There are 2 class name constants for a Polls module:
    polls
    module_container

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