.. include:: ../Includes.txt


.. _usagePollAdministration:


Poll administration
-------------------

As author of a poll (or administrator) you can edit or finish the poll and you can remove votes.

Below the voting table, authors see an additional box:

.. image:: Images/poll-admin-box.png
   :alt: Administration box for polls, available for poll authors and administrators.
   :scale: 75

Here you can edit, delete or finish the poll (voting process).

.. note::
   Once the first participant placed its vote, the poll can not get deleted anymore.


Editing published polls
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

When you've already published a poll and edit its options or change an option related setting (like :ref:`yesNoMaybe`),
all existing votes get removed!

The affected settings and the options section got a "Caution!" label set.


Finish voting
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The poll author can finish a poll anytime he/she want, after the poll has been published. When finishing the poll, you
need to select a final option.

.. image:: Images/finish-poll.png
   :alt: The poll author can finish the poll and select a final option.
   :scale: 50
   :class: with-border


Once a poll has been finished, the show action displays the final option, selected by poll author.

.. image:: Images/finished-poll.png
   :alt: The poll is finished, the poll author has selected a final option.
   :scale: 50
   :class: with-border