Step 6: Deploy Your Poll

You can deploy your poll by doing any of the following:

• Embedding Your Poll In a Mailing

  You copy information directly into the HTML-format e-mail to embed the actual poll in the e-mail message.

  Note: Outlook 2007 HTML e-mail does not allow form functionality. Therefore, embedded polls are no longer active. Fields (text input, drop-downs, radio buttons and checkboxes) are replaced with empty square brackets [ ] and buttons are deactivated. Because polls are often the most active and popular links in an e-mail, ensure that any poll in the HTML e-mail is accompanied by a link allowing the recipient to try it online if it is not available via e-mail. This best practice also extends to Web-mail clients, which often change security settings that render e-mail polls inactive.

• Linking To Your Poll From a Mailing

  You embed a link to the poll in the e-mail.

• Linking To Your Poll From Your Web site

  You embed this poll in your Web site.

• Embed your poll in your Web site

  You copy the source code for the poll to an HTML page on your Web site. When you do so, you can update the code at any time and you can link to the page where you host this poll from any of your mailings.

• Embed your poll in an e-mail

  You copy the source code for the poll into the content of an e-mail.

Note: To make sure your cut and paste operation is accurate, click in the appropriate text box, press <CTRL-A> to select all, <CRTL-C> to copy the selected text, then go directly to your target e-mail client or HTML editor and press <CTRL-V> to paste the text.

To deploy your poll:

1. Do one of the following:
   • To embed your poll in a mailing, copy the information from the Embedding You Poll in a Mailing text box and paste it in the e-mail message where you want the poll to appear.
   • To link to your poll from a mailing, copy the information from the Linking To Your Poll From a Mailing text box and then paste it in the e-mail message where you want the link to the poll to appear.
   • To link to your poll from your Web site, copy the information from the Linking To Your Poll From Your Website text box, and then paste it into the HTML of a Web page where you want the link to the poll to appear.
   • To embed your poll in your Web site, copy the information from the HTML Sourcecode To Your Poll for Display on Your Website text box, and then paste it into the HTML of a Web page where you want the poll to appear.
   • To embed your poll in an e-mail, copy the information from the HTML Sourcecode To Embed in e-Dialog Mailings text box, and then paste it into the content of an e-mail.

   You can click <<Back to return to the previous step. If you have made changes that are not saved, the system prompts you to continue or cancel.

   You can click Cancel at any time to return to the Poll Builder home page without saving your changes. If you have made changes that are not saved, the system prompts you to continue or cancel.

2. Click Finish at any time to go to the Manage Poll page.

   Note: Your poll must be set to status Active/Online for the recipient to be able to view and respond to it. If you did not set the status to be Active/Online , from the Manage Poll page, click the Properties tab and switch the status field to Active/Online.