Start a poll

Polls let you ask your group a question and collect everyone's answers in one place — pick a show of hands, a star rating, a number, or a written reply. You start a poll from inside a group's chat channel, and it posts as a message anyone in the channel can answer.

Before you start

Polls live in group channels, so you need to be in a group — a Class, Project / Team, Family, or Study session. Private one-to-one chats and Garçon don't have polls. See Create a group.

🖥 Web
📱 Mobile

Open the group's channel from Chats.
In the message toolbar below the text box, click the poll icon (Start a poll). The Create a new poll dialog opens.
Choose a Type for your question — Choices, Number, Rating, Short answer, or Long answer.
Type your question in the Question field.

For a Choices question, fill in each option under Options (use + Add for more), and turn on Allow multiple selections if voters should be able to pick more than one.

Screenshot coming soon

The Create a new poll dialog with a Choices question typed in and two options filled

Capture spec (for maintainers)

{
  "id": "web.polls.create-a-poll.dialog",
  "platform": "web",
  "route": "/chats/groups/:groupId/:channelId",
  "actions": [
    {
      "click": {
        "testId": "text-channel-start-poll-button"
      }
    },
    {
      "click": {
        "testId": "poll-question-type-select"
      }
    },
    {
      "click": {
        "testId": "poll-question-type-option-CHOICE"
      }
    },
    {
      "fill": {
        "testId": "poll-question-prompt-input",
        "value": "Where should we meet to study?"
      }
    },
    {
      "fill": {
        "testId": "poll-choice-input-0",
        "value": "Library"
      }
    },
    {
      "fill": {
        "testId": "poll-choice-input-1",
        "value": "Café Vanille"
      }
    }
  ],
  "clip": {
    "testId": "create-new-poll-dialog",
    "pad": 16
  }
}

Click Confirm. Latte posts the poll to the channel, and everyone in the group can answer it right away.

On the Latte desktop app

The desktop app posts polls to the same channels — no difference from the web app.

Open the group's channel from the Chats tab.
Tap the more-actions button next to the message box to expand the action menu.
Tap Start Poll.

Choose a Type, type your Question, and — for a Choices question — add your Options and toggle Allow multiple selections if needed.

Screenshot coming soon

The mobile Start Poll screen with a Choices question and two options filled in

Capture spec (for maintainers)

{
  "id": "mobile.polls.create-a-poll.create-screen",
  "platform": "mobile",
  "route": "/chats/groups/:groupId/:channelId/poll/create",
  "actions": [
    {
      "tapOn": {
        "id": "text-channel-more-actions-button"
      }
    },
    {
      "tapOn": {
        "text": "Start Poll"
      }
    },
    {
      "tapOn": {
        "id": "poll-question-type-select"
      }
    },
    {
      "tapOn": {
        "text": "Choices"
      }
    },
    {
      "inputText": {
        "id": "poll-question-prompt-input",
        "text": "Where should we meet to study?"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Tap Confirm. The poll posts to the channel.

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