The old must give way to the new
Recently we had more server failures and PollUnit was sometimes not available. This was due to our oldest server instance, which had been in operation for more than 2 years.
We replaced the old fat server with two new youthful slim instances. In addition, we have extended our monitoring to become more quickly aware of problems.
We apologize and are confident to offer a more stable service from now on.
Published at: 2019-03-06 05:34 PM
The old must give way to th...Functions for a better evaluation of your votes
In order to quickly and easily get the right insights from the data of your poll, there will be more and more possibilities for evaluation in the near future. We have already started with the conversion and give the administrators new tools into the hand.
Beside structural updates there is now the possibility to see the distribution of votes on options at a glance. So you can see the number of people that have your options with one, two, three, etc. points. This is useful, for example, if you have designs rated by products. Designs that were especially often rated with full points will probably sell better than designs with a higher average rating but fewer maximum points. So in this example the number of pieces of individual products can be calculated better.
In the participant overview you see beside the voters and the invited users who have not yet voted an overview when the votes were cast in your PollUnit.
Next, we will enable you to perform the evaluations country-specifically. Opinions and tastes can vary greatly from country to country. So you can see if voting results differ.
If you have ideas how we can help you to better evaluate your polls and votes, write a feature request in our support forum.
Published at: 2019-03-02 08:02 PM
Functions for a better eval...
Create a Slack Dot Voting
From now on you can create and perform dot-votings in our Slack App in addition to simple yes / no and star ratings.
In a Dot-Voting the participants vote with a limited number of points. Each participant distributes his/her dots among the available options. The option with the most dots wins.
Try it for free and add PollUnit to your Slack Apps. You don't have to leave Slack anymore to start a poll. With the command »/pollunit create« you can create polls within Slack.
Published at: 2019-03-02 07:48 PM
Create a Slack Dot VotingRate pictures with and without caption
Today we have a small update for all users who want to rate images with PollUnit. PollUnit showed the file name or a freely selectable caption for each image. Now you can also hide the caption for the participants.
For example, you can hide generic names assigned by your camera or smartphone. But you can also hide voting relevant file names. In the evaluation and in the admin of your picture poll the names remain visible to you for later identification.
Published at: 2019-02-25 12:10 PM
Rate pictures with and with...
Updates for our Yes / No votings
We have adapted and extended our Yes-No polls to your feedback. The following has changed:
Better visibility of missing votes on new options
If a new option has been added to your poll, an empty field will appear in the voters' line. Only if your participant votes for or against the option will the field be filled in.
Upvoting or downvoting
With our »Yes« polls, your voters can upvote your options. Negative and neutral votes are combined and ignored. With the target »lowest resistance« you can only collect negative votes and ignore positive votes.
No and undecided as answer
With our »Yes / No« surveys you can allow your participants to rate your options negative or neutral. A negative vote will be subtracted from the positive votes.
Have fun voting!
Published at: 2019-02-19 02:10 PM
Updates for our Yes / No vo...Create Slack votings
Out now: Use PollUnit as an extension to create polls and polls directly in Slack.
Integrate PollUnit into your Slack workflow and create Slack Polls and Votings like a simple yes/no voting, star rating or date poll. Rate ideas and topics in your Slack Workspace!
Your team can vote without having to invite participants to the survey. Everyone in your Slack Channel will automatically be notified of a new PollUnit and will receive permission to vote. You can also share the same poll online with other users or restrict access to slack users only.
Published at: 2019-02-11 11:00 AM
Create Slack votings
Create polls and photo contests with your own imprint and terms
With our new imprint feature you can now define a responsible person and an imprint or conditions of participation for each poll.
Simply check the box »Publisher and imprint« in step 4 »Advanced« and fill in the necessary fields.
The name of the publisher, which can also be a company name, will then appear as the creator and responsible person of your PollUnit. If you fill in the imprint or the conditions, a link will appear at the end of your poll. If this link is clicked, an overlay with your entries opens.
This is suitable, for example, for providing legal information and conditions of participation in your photo contests and competitions.
Published at: 2019-02-09 06:00 PM
Create polls and photo cont...Create online tables
Create online tables and lists with PollUnit's »Free Table«
Besides Online Voting you can now also create free tables. As usual you can decide who can participate in the PollUnit: without registration, only with account, with password protection or direct invitation.
With a »Free Table« you can invite your participants to enter free text or numbers per column. Useful for planning who brings what or collecting other information in an online list.
Published at: 2019-01-28 01:00 PM
Create online tables
Limit participants to one vote by IP address
With a PollUnit Online Voting you can quickly and easily create polls for participants with and without an account. In the last weeks we have been asked more and more if we can implement an IP-check to prevent multiple participation of unregistered users.
And now the time has come: you have the possibility to block unregistered participants via the IP address if they have already voted once.
Why have we only now implemented an IP check?
Computers in networks of schools, universities and companies often use the same IP address. Votings within a university should therefore preferably be carried out without an IP check in order not to exclude too many participants.
You can find out more about the security measures you can take in our tutorial Preventing multiple participation.
Published at: 2019-01-08 08:30 AM
Limit participants to one v...Export votes to Excel
With PollUnit you could already export your Online voting for further processing as CSV. If you now click on Export in the context menu of your PollUnit, you will also find the Excel Export.
We export the Excel file in XML format with the file extension xlsx. The xlsx format is supported from Excel version 2007. With the help of the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, this functionality can also be added for older Office versions (2000, 2003 and XP).
Published at: 2019-01-03 09:00 AM
Export votes to Excel