Matterpoll is a plugin for Mattermost. It allows users to create poll by using a slash command.

In Mattermost, open Product Menu > Marketplace (Main Menu > Marketplace on Mattersmot v5) to install and configure Matterpoll.

For offline/air gapped installations, you can obtain a .tar.gz from https://github.com/matterpoll/matterpoll/releases. In Mattermost, open System Console > Plugins > Plugin Management > Upload Plugin to upload the .tar.gz. Upgrades can be performed by importing the lastest release and confirm overwriting of the duplicate plugin ID.

After the plugin has downloaded and been installed, click the Configure button. Alternatively, you can configure Matterpoll from System Console > Plugins > Matterpoll.

• Trigger Word: Change trigger word for poll command. (default /poll)
• Experimental UI: Enable new experimental UI for poll posts:
  • Change button color of voted answers
  • Hide poll management buttons (Add Option / Delete Poll / End Poll) from users who don't have permission

/poll "Is Matterpoll great?" creates a poll with the answer options "Yes" and "No". You can also leave out the double quotes and just type /poll Is Matterpoll great?.

If you want to define all answer options by yourself, type /poll "Is Matterpoll great?" "Of course" "In any case" "Definitely"- Note that the double quotes are required in this case.

/poll show up a modal for creating a poll.

Poll Settings provide further customisation, e.g. /poll "Is Matterpoll great?" "Of course" "In any case" "Definitely" --progress --anonymous. The available Poll Settings are:

• --anonymous: Don't show who voted for what at the end
• --progress: During the poll, show how many votes each answer option got
• --public-add-option: Allow all users to add additional options
• --votes=X: Allow users to vote for X options

Matterpoll supports localization of user specify messages. You can change language of poll message by setting it in System Console > Site Configuration > Localization > Default Server Language. Language of messages that only a user can see (e.g.: help messages, error messages) use the language set in Settings > Display > Language (Account Settings > Display > Language on Mattermost v5).

The currently supported languages are:

• English
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Korean
• Polish
• Russian
• Simplified Chinese
• Spanish
• Traditional Chinese

Make sure to set your Site URL properly. For example, this error happens in case you set SiteURL starting with http://, in spite of running Mattermost server through https.

We welcome contributions for bug reports, issues, feature requests, feature implementations and pull requests. Feel free to file a new issue or join the Matterpoll channel on the Mattermost community server.

For a complete guide on contributing to Matterpoll, see the Contribution Guideline.