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Duplicating polls and poll list management

Reuse a poll's questions, settings and branching as a new draft, then filter, search and bulk-delete polls from your list without losing track.

  • Workspace admins
  • 3 min read
  • Updated Oct 14, 2026
Note

Heads up: a duplicate is a brand-new draft with its own keys. Responses, access codes and PINs never copy over.

The polls list showing Your Polls and Team Folders tabs. Status filters run across the top - All, Draft, Active, Expired and Closed - beside toggles for hiding or showing sample polls. A selection row offers Select all on page, Bulk delete and Bulk duplicate, and one poll named Team pulse is listed in the My Polls folder with a Sample badge.
The polls list, with status filters and the bulk actions used for duplicating and deleting.

Duplicating a poll copies its title, description, questions, branching rules, and settings into a new draft with a fresh encryption keypair and zero responses. You can also manage reusable contact lists under Admin so every wave or follow-up survey reaches the right people.

#Duplicating a poll

You can duplicate any poll you can open. You get a new editable draft with the original's questions, settings and branching rules already filled in. It's the quick way to rerun a survey, try a variation, or send the same questions to a different group.

How it works

Click Duplicate on the poll's card in the list, or on the poll's page. The builder opens with the copy loaded, starting at Basic info rather than the template step.

A few things happen on the way:

  • Every question gets a new ID, and branching rules are remapped to the new IDs so they still point at the right questions.
  • The title gets " (copy)" on the end. Rename it before you publish.
  • The respondent PIN and results PIN are left empty. Set new ones if you need them.
  • Your browser creates a fresh set of encryption keys when the copy is first saved. No keys are copied from the original.

From there it's the same flow as any new poll: edit, save, publish. Each duplicate has its own identity, keys and responses.

What isn't copied

Responses, access codes, encryption keys and PINs never come across. Contact lists you picked on the original's Distribution step are carried over, but email addresses you typed or pasted in aren't. Check the recipients before you publish.

#Poll list

Status filters

Filter the list by status: All, Draft, Active, Expired or Closed. A second control shows All polls, Hide samples or Samples only, so the sample poll doesn't get in your way.

The Search by title… box filters the list as you type. It ignores case and matches any part of the title, so "onboard" finds both "Q3 Onboarding Feedback" and "New Hire Onboarding Check-in".

Bulk actions

Tick the checkbox on each poll, or use Select all on page to select the polls on the current page that you can delete. Bulk duplicate is shown but switched off: duplicate one poll at a time from its card or page.

Bulk delete removes the selected polls in one go. The confirmation shows how many polls will go and asks you to type DELETE. Drafts delete straight away. A published poll that has responses can't be deleted, so it's skipped and you get a summary of what worked and what didn't. The polls that couldn't be deleted stay selected so you can see which ones they were.

#Auto-save for drafts

The builder saves your draft to the server about 30 seconds after you stop making changes, and shows when it last saved. Because the draft lives on the server, you can pick it up in another browser: reopen it and the latest copy loads. If you close the tab with unsaved changes the browser asks before leaving, and moving elsewhere in the app asks you to confirm.

Auto-save writes to the same draft that Save draft uses. It doesn't create extra copies or versions.