---
title: "How to Add and Configure the Vitextra Quick Poll Web Part"
description: "Step-by-step guide to adding the Vitextra Quick Poll web part to a SharePoint Online page, creating your first poll, and configuring its appearance, chart and behavior in the property pane."
url: https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10216
language: en
published: 2026-09-10
modified: 2026-10-13
products:
  - "Quick Poll"
author: "Lidija Reising"
tags: ["add Quick Poll web part", "configure Quick Poll", "SharePoint Online poll web part", "insert web part", "Quick Poll property pane", "create SharePoint poll", "chart settings", "Vitextra Quick Poll"]
---

# How to Add and Configure the Vitextra Quick Poll Web Part

Step-by-step guide to adding the Vitextra Quick Poll web part to a SharePoint Online page, creating your first poll, and configuring its appearance, chart and behavior in the property pane.

## Overview

This article explains how to place the **Vitextra Quick Poll** web part on a SharePoint Online page, create a poll, and tune the web part through its property pane. It assumes the Quick Poll package has already been deployed to your tenant App Catalog.

💡 **Tip**  
If Quick Poll is not yet available on your sites, deploy it first — see the [KB10035. Installing Cloud-based Product](https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10035) article.

## Before you begin

- Quick Poll must be added to the **tenant App Catalog** and enabled for your site.
- You need permission to **edit the page** (Member access or higher on the site).
- No additional API permissions are required — the web part works entirely within your SharePoint site.

## Step 1. Add the web part to a page

1. Open the SharePoint page where you want the poll and switch it to edit mode with **Edit** in the top-right corner.
2. Move the mouse over the area where the poll should appear and click the circled **+** (Add a new web part).
3. In the toolbox, type **Quick Poll** in the search box and select the web part from the results.

![Adding the Quick Poll web part](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10216/add-webpart-en.png)
*Adding the Quick Poll web part*

The web part is inserted into the section and immediately shows the poll creation form.

📝 **Note**  
The first time Quick Poll is added to a site, it automatically creates two SharePoint lists — **Vitextra Quick Poll Questions** and **Vitextra Quick Poll Responses** — to store poll data. You do not need to create them manually.

## Step 2. Create the poll

In the creation form, choose **Create Poll** to build a new poll (or **Select Existing** to reuse a poll already created on this site). Enter the **Question**, an optional **Description**, add your answer options with the **Add option** button, and click **Save**.

![Creating the poll](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10216/create-first-poll-en.png)
*Creating the poll*

For a full description of every field and option — multiple selection, anonymous responses, colors, scheduling — see the [KB10215. Quick Poll. Solution Overview](https://vitextra.com/en/support/kb/10215) article.

## Step 3. Configure the web part

With the page still in edit mode, select the web part and click the **pencil (Edit web part)** icon on its left toolbar to open the property pane. The settings are organized into accordion groups.

![The Quick Poll property pane](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10216/property-pane-en.png)
*The Quick Poll property pane*

### Appearance

| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| **Vote button text** | The caption of the vote button shown to participants (default: *Vote*). |
| **Customize thank you message** | The message shown to a participant right after they submit a response. |

### Chart

| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| **Type** | The results chart type: Bar, Column, Doughnut, Pie or Radar Area. |
| **Animation Duration** | How long the chart animates on appearance, from 0 to 10 (0 disables the animation). |
| **Show percentage value** | Displays each option's vote share as a percentage directly on the chart. |
| **Show Legend** | Shows a legend (available for Pie and Doughnut charts). |
| **Position** | Legend position — Top, Right, Bottom or Left (enabled only when the legend is shown). |

![Chart settings](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10216/chart-settings-en.png)
*Chart settings*

### Miscellaneous

| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| **Show results before voting** | Lets visitors open the current results with a *View Results* button without casting a vote. |
| **Export to Excel** | Adds an export button under the results chart to download the results as an Excel workbook. |

### Data Source

This group is informational. It contains links to the **Questions** and **Responses** lists, and, once a poll exists, the read-only **Instance ID** and **Poll** number that bind the web part to its data.

📝 **Note**  
The Data Source fields are read-only and intended for diagnostics. The web part manages the connection to its lists automatically.

### About

Shows license and version information for the product — subscription status, tenant and product version.

## Step 4. Save and publish

Property-pane changes take effect immediately in edit mode. When you are happy with the result, click **Republish** (or **Publish**) to make the poll and its configuration live for visitors.

![The configured poll on a published page](https://static.vitextra.com/articles/10216/published-poll-en.png)
*The configured poll on a published page*