How to create a poll in Confluence

To create a poll in Confluence Cloud, edit the page, type / and insert a poll macro from a Marketplace app such as Pollmark, enter the question and one option per line, choose how people vote, then publish. Everyone who can view the page and is logged in votes right on the page, and page editors can close the poll or export the results.

Steps

1. Open the page in the editor. Any page or blog post works.
2. Insert the poll. Type / and choose Pollmark poll.
3. Write the question and options. The question can be up to 300 characters. Put each option on its own line, up to 50 options of 200 characters each. Bullets or numbers at the start of a line are removed, and an option that repeats another ("Friday" and "friday ") is dropped.
4. Choose how people vote.
   • Voters pick: one option, or several. With several, you can set a limit, for example 3 for "pick up to 3".
   • Show results: always, after the person votes, or when the poll closes.
   • Close voting after: an optional date. Voting stays open until 23:59:59 UTC that day.
   • Anonymous: off by default. See below.
   • Let people change or remove their vote while the poll is open: on by default.
5. Publish the page. While you edit, the poll shows a preview with the note "Voting opens when the page is published."

Anonymous or named votes

An anonymous poll stores no account IDs. For each voter it keeps a one-way code that only tells Pollmark the same person is voting again, so nobody, including page owners and site admins, can see who picked what. Anonymity locks at the first vote: to switch, export the results if you need a record, then reset the poll.

In a named poll, everyone sees the counts, and people who can edit the page see who picked each option under Manage and in the CSV. Turn on Named polls: show voter names to everyone who can see the results if every reader should see names.

Polls on copied pages and templates

A poll belongs to its page. Copy the page, copy a page tree or create pages from a template that holds a poll, and each new page gets its own empty poll with the same question and options. The original poll keeps its votes. That makes a poll in a meeting-notes or retro template work the way people expect: every new page starts at zero.

Read and export the results

Each option shows its votes, its share of voters and a bar, with the leading option in bold. People who can edit the page open Manage to close the poll early, reopen it, reset it or Export CSV. A named poll's CSV has one row per voter with their choices and the time of the vote; an anonymous poll's CSV has totals only.

To see every poll in one place, add the Pollmark poll rollup macro. It lists the polls on a page and the pages under it, or the whole space, with status, voters and the leading option. Each reader only sees polls on pages they can open.

Limits to know

• One question per poll. There is no ranked choice and no comments per option.
• Closing dates are whole days in UTC, with no time-of-day setting.
• Anyone who can view the page can vote. To limit who votes, use page restrictions.
• Renaming an option counts as removing it and adding a new one, so votes for the old wording stop counting.

What it costs

Pollmark is $4 a month for up to 10 users, or $40 a year. From 11 users it is $0.90 per user a month, with lower rates for larger sites. It is billed by Atlassian, with a 30-day free trial.