As the creator of a poll, you may want to announce the start of voting by including the link to the poll in a Web page or by distributing it via email, especially when it is a public poll. In this case, you should publish the public link to the poll for anonymous voters, i.e.

http://your-bscw-server/pub/bscw.cgi/poll-id

For authenticated voters with access to the workspace containing the poll, you should advise the use of the ‘authenticated’ access to the poll, i.e. the link

http://your-bscw-server/bscw/bscw.cgi/poll-id

where poll-id is the object id of the poll — to be found as the last number of the URL shown in the address field of your browser when you open the poll. If in doubt, ask your BSCW administrator about the correct links.

In order to vote on a poll, you either click on the link published as described above or — when you have access to the workspace of the poll — you

• choose   Open  in the action menu of the poll or click on the poll entry in the folder listing. This will show the questionnaire.
• Fill in the questionnaire and hit [Submit vote] when you are finished. Answers will then be final and cannot be revised any more.
• If configured accordingly, the poll results so far will be shown after your having voted.

Voting is only possible if a voting period has been specified for the poll and this period has started and not yet expired. Each potential participant in a poll may only vote once. In case of a public poll this is achieved by setting a browser cookie. Each participant has to vote on all questions which are marked with an asterisk (*) as mandatory, otherwise the vote is not accepted.