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How to post a new poll in SMF

SMF lets you attach a poll to an existing topic or a new one. Let’s see how to do that now.

1) Browse to any board.
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2) Click Post New Poll.
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3) Type a Subject.
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You can select an icon if you wish.
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4) Enter the question you want to ask users.
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5) Type as many options as neccessary.
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6) Use this link if you need more options.
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7) If you want this poll to be available for a certain time, enter the number of days here.
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8) Type a message here to go along with your poll.
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9) Click Post.

Let’s view our new poll.
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10) Select your response to vote.
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11) Click Submit Vote.

We are now shown the poll results.
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You’ve seen how to create a new poll in SMF. Now let’s find out how to add one to an existing topic.

12) Click next >> to go to the next topic in this board.

13) Click Add Poll.
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14) Then just fill out the form like we showed you before.
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This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to add polls to new and existing topics in SMF.

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