Currently
N/A

Desired:

The ability to create a poll that can be placed on your website. A poll is considered a single question that a member or visitor can choose a predefined answer from. A poll can be limited to one-person one-vote, or allow multiple votes from the same person. There also would be a way to track who has responded to the poll and the answers they have chosen.

This is one of our Top 50 issues for development in 2010. We plan to have it developed and scheduled for release  within the next 12 months.

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Giuliano Valentino, Useful Apricot

I am surprised this is not a top priority for you as your marketing department could be advertising this as a great feature to save time.  I would probably be one of many quotes you would have to select from to advertise how much of a time saver your voting feature is. If done correctly we hope to do our entire election process with this feature.  It does away with the need for a separate meeting or for someone to go to a location to vote.  The set up time should be minimal.  We would really hope that you push this to be released by summer for those of us who have end of the year elections.  This is our first year with Wild Apricot and we expect to have almost 200 members and despartely need an efficient election process.  We could be so much more productive at the meeting we usually have voting at if the voting had already been taken care of online without the necessity of someone to count votes.  Many groups like ours do not have a paid administrative assistant.

 While I like the idea that we can track who has voted, there may be a time when there is a close race or a dispute over a vote that requires a review of the actual votes.  While many members will want to know their vote is confidential, a process could be set up that requires an extra step to see those results.  Perhaps you could have a feature that would email the membership letting them know a certain person had accessed the votes.  After all someone could have voted for the wrong person. You could also require 3 people to log in to allow and give approval to 1 person to see the results.  In general many people many not trust an online process that cannot be reviewed.

I hope you make this a top priority.

@lawyersunite

Thanks for your feedback. We've collected your suggestions and added them to our notes. Not all of them might make it in right away, but we are committed to continual improvement and enhancement of every feature we develop.

This is one of high priority items: We have 50 that we are planning to do in 2010. It won't be in our 3.5 release - we are planning some big items for that and just won't have the resources. But we are putting the finishing touches on the design of it before sending it to our developers for estimation right now. When we have the description finalized and the screens ready, we'll post them here to collect any feedback before we start coding. 

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Giuliano Valentino, Useful Apricot

I would use a polling feature so members (not public visitors to our website) could rate different companies.  On our website we have a "products and services guide" for our members - it lists companies the members may hire to do work for them.  It would be great if members could also respond to a poll about companies they worked with and the poll results be visible to all other members.  Something similar to the star-rating on the WA forums.

The poll question would be something like - How would you rate ABC company?
The response choices could be - Excellent, Good, Average, Fair, Poor.
If there was a comments field as well, that would be superb.

I think it would only work if there was an unlimited (or set the limit high, such as 200) number of active polls because each company listed on the Guide would each need a separate poll.  And of course the results must be visible to all members.  Each poll would be placed near each company's entry on the Guide.

Thanks, Anne

 

We could definitely use internal and external polling. Currently we are doing it through icontact but we would love to get away from icontact and into Wild Apricot.

 Thank you! 

We are now almost half-way through 2010, is there any sign that a basic poll functionality will be available this year?

Regards,
Ian
worthing and adur chamber of commerce.

This is a feature that our club would find highly desirable.  It has been requested often by our Board Members.

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-michellebw