Duplicating polls and poll list management

Duplicating a poll

You can duplicate any poll you have access to, creating a new editable draft pre-filled with the original poll's questions, settings, and branching rules. This is useful for running recurring surveys, iterating on a poll design, or creating variations for different audiences.

How it works

Click Duplicate from the poll list card or from a poll's detail page. This opens the poll creation wizard pre-filled with the source poll's definition. The wizard skips the template selection step and lands directly on the questions.

A few things happen automatically during duplication:

• New question IDs are generated so the copy is fully independent
• Branching rules are remapped to the new question IDs
• The title gets a "(copy)" suffix as a reminder to rename
• Password and PIN fields are left empty — you set new ones if needed
• No encryption keys are copied — when you publish, a fresh keypair is generated through the normal flow

The wizard applies the same create flow as a new poll: it loads the source definition into authoring state, then you save and publish as usual. Each duplicate has its own identity, keys, and response storage.

What is not duplicated

• Recipient lists and access codes (these are distribution concerns, not definition)
• Response data
• Encryption keys (a new keypair is generated on publish)
• Poll passwords or PINs

Poll list

Status filters

The poll list has a status filter at the top. Filter by:

• All — everything
• Draft — polls not yet published
• Active — currently accepting responses
• Expired — past their deadline
• Closed — manually closed by an admin

Title search

A search box lets you filter the visible list by title. Search is case-insensitive and matches any substring, so typing "onboard" will surface "Q3 Onboarding Feedback" and "New Hire Onboarding Check-in".

Bulk actions

You can select multiple polls using the checkboxes on each row, or use Select all to select everything on the current page that is eligible under the active filter. Bulk duplicate is not available — duplicate one poll at a time from a card or detail page.

Bulk delete removes eligible selected polls in one flow. A confirmation step shows the count before proceeding. If some selected polls cannot be deleted (for example, they already have responses), those rows are skipped and you get a summary of successes and failures. Rows that could not be deleted stay selected so you can see which ones need a different action.

Auto-save for drafts

The poll wizard auto-saves your draft to the server approximately every 30 seconds after you make changes. That means:

• Switching browsers or devices is much safer — reopen the draft poll and you should see your latest server copy; if the server has a newer save than your browser remembered, the wizard may ask whether to restore the server draft or keep local edits
• Accidental tab closes still trigger the browser's native “leave site?” prompt when appropriate; in-app navigation (e.g. leaving the wizard) uses an accessible confirmation dialog whose wording reflects whether a recent auto-save succeeded
• The wizard shows when the last auto-save ran so you know your work is persisting

Auto-save writes to the same draft poll row that manual Save draft uses. It does not create additional rows or versions.