Create Poll

LikeMinds Chat SDK Poll Features enables you to engage your users, to create and participate in polls right within your in-app community. The "Create Poll" method allows you to empower your users to craft their own polls with customized questions and response options. You can integrate the above by following the given steps.

Steps to Create Poll

1. To create a poll, use the postPollConversation() method provided by the client.
2. Pass in the required parameters to define the poll question and options.
3. Process the response as per your requirement.

const payload = {
  chatroomId: 89899, // The id of the chatroom where the conversation takes place.
  text: "", // The title or main question for the conversation.
  expiryTime: 1627700575500, // Time in epoch format when the poll will expire.
  pollType: 0, // The type of poll, it can be "0 | 1".
  isAnonymous: false, // Determines if the poll is anonymous (true/false).
  allowAddOption: false, // Determines if participants can add their own options to the poll (true/false).
  polls: [
    {
      text: "", // The text representing a poll option.
    },
  ],
  state: 10, // The state 10 signifies that the conversation is a poll .
};

const response = await lmChatClient.postPollsConversation(payload);

if (response.success) {
  // your function to process the response data
  processResponse(response);
} else {
  // your function to process error message
  processError(response);
}

note

Poll type can be 0 or 1

• 0 refers to Instant Poll
• 1 refers to Deferred Poll.

Create Poll Payload

Variable	Type	Description	Optional
chatroomId	number	Chatroom Id.
text	string	The title/question for the poll.
expiryTime	number	Time in epoch format when the poll expires.
pollType	numnber	Type of poll - 0 for Instant Poll - 1 for Deferred Poll
isAnonymous	boolean	Indicates if the poll responses are anonymous.
allowAddOption	boolean	Allows users to add options to the poll.
polls	Array of objects	An array of poll options.
state	number	State of the poll.
multipleSelectState	number	State of multiple-choice poll: - 0 for Exactly - 1 for At max - 2 for At least.
multipleSelectNo	number	Number of options that can be selected (used with multipleSelectState).

Create Poll Response

List of parameters in the response.

Variable	Type	Description	Optional
success	boolean	API success status
error_message	string	Error message in case of failure	✔️
conversation	object	Poll Conversation object	✔️