Voting

Public voting is a way for people to vote for nominations within your awards. Voting can be used in order to select finalists and/or winners from your nominees, to act as an alternative way of gathering scores alongside judging.

Nominations should be closed before voting is opened. 

Configuring your nominations for voting

To configure voting, navigate to Awards > Judging, and select the judging round that the nominations will be used from.

In the Nominations tab, expand a category and click Edit Result.

Then, select the submissions you wish to partake in the public vote in each category by ticking the box in the Voting column.

Once nominations have been flagged for voting, navigate to the Shortlist tab.

Configuring voting rules

First, configure the details of how your voting will work within the voting section.

Click on the Edit button, and then to configure voting, tick the Active checkbox.

Then, choose how your voting list will work.

• Accessible to
  • All users - anyone who visits your website can vote
  • Registered users - users must first create an account in order to be able to vote
• Voting Rule
  • 1 vote per nomination - Voters may vote for multiple nominations in each category
  • 1 vote per category - Voters may only cast 1 vote in each category
  • 1 vote per event - Voters may only vote for a single nomination across all categories
• Form - (optional) a customisable form can be selected to collect information from voters. Here, you can choose not to use a form, or to use an existing voting form
• Dates - determine the open and close dates of your voting

Customising the voting form

During the configuration of your voting rules, you can choose to use a voting form. Enabling this form means anyone who casts a vote for a nomination will be presented with a voting form to complete.

To customise this form, go to Website > Forms, and select the Voting tab. Click on the form to edit the questions that are asked when this form appears.

You can find the responses by clicking on the number of submissions.

You can review the responses and/or download them using the Export to Excel button.

Setting up your voting list

Once you have configured your voting rules, select +New Shortlist.

In the shortlist type, select Voting.

Then, complete the Shortlist Configuration and Styling.

There are many different options for you to choose from.

Be sure to include a word or phrase in the Vote button text section, so that people visiting your site can clearly find where to click to vote.

Once you are done, return to this article to complete your voting list.

Updating your Voting List

You will need to refresh your submissions after initially setting the list type to Voting.

Alternatively, If you find that you need to include additional submissions to your shortlist, you can do so easily by clicking the option Refresh Voting Nominations.

Configuring the content of your voting list

To configure the content of your voting list, find the section titled Categories with shortlisted entries.

To exclude a category from your list, you can toggle the On/Off selector.

Then, expand the category using the arrow to configure what content will appear on the list.

Once you have expanded your category, you can select parts of the nomination content to include on the list. To do this, click on +Add fields.

In a new window, you will see all questions that were included in the category. Use the checkbox to select which fields from the submission will appear for each nomination within this category.

When they have been selected, your chosen fields will appear listed on the right side of the page.

You can choose if these fields will be automatically visible, or if a website visitor will need to click on a 'see more' link for this content to be seen. Do this by dragging fields into the Show/Hide section.

When you are finished selecting what will be included, click on Save.

There are more tools that can be used to configure further how the information is displayed.

• Use Images can be activated to manually add an additional image for each entry, separate to any that have been selected as part of the submission.
• To edit the name of any question, simply click on the text to change it.
• The fields Description and Other are optional additional fields, to allow you to enter a new field to the category that does not exist in the original submissions. These fields can be renamed and populated with the new information you want to include.
• Finally, use the arrows to move fields between the Always Visible and Show/Hide sections, depending on what information is to be displayed automatically what should be shown when show more is clicked.

When you have configured what your list will contain, you will see each submission below, displaying the fields you have chosen and any edits you have made.

Here, you can edit the submission itself, including the name, text and images. If you have chosen to enable nomination view by slug as explained above, this can also be edited.

Additionally, if you chose to use images, you can upload a new image to each submission.

Once you have completed the configuration of your voting list, click Save.

Activating your voting on your website

When you are ready to add your voting list to your site, go to Website > Pages.

Choose the page you want to add your voting list to, or create a new page.

Your voting shortlist is added to a page just like any other content item.

Click on +Add content in the section of the page you want the list to be placed on.

To find your voting list in the content menu, follow the path:

Content > Common > Awards > [Judging Round Name] > Shortlist, and select the voting list you have created by ticking the checkbox beside its name.

Reviewing voting results

Once the voting period has closed you can view the results within the judging round in the Nominations tab.

You can also download the information into an excel spreadsheet by clicking Excel export.