> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.begin.eu/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Polls and events > Add a poll, collect attendance and link a post to the day it belongs on the schedule. A team lunch post with poll results and Going, Maybe and Not going attendance A team lunch post with poll results and Going, Maybe and Not going attendance A post can carry a poll, an **Attending** question or both. Add an event date when the update belongs to a particular day and should be reachable from the schedule. These controls use the post composer. Your workspace needs **Messages and Posts**, and your role needs **Create posts**. ## Ask a poll question Open **Overview** and start a post in **Share an update with your team…**. In the composer, open the extra actions and choose **Poll**. Write the question and at least two options. Turn on **Allow multiple answers** only when more than one answer may be correct for each person. You can add a closing date. Begin closes the poll at the end of that date in the workspace timezone. When the deadline is more than a day away and you chose a **Notify** audience, Begin reminds people who have not answered 24 hours before it. ## Link an event and collect attendance Choose **Link to schedule date**, then select the event day. The post appears against that date on the schedule as well as in Overview. Choose **Attending** to add **Going**, **Maybe** and **Not going**. The default question is **Are you coming?**, or you can write your own. With an event date, attendance closes at the end of that day. Removing the event date removes that automatic attendance deadline. A dated team lunch post with a two-option poll and Going, Maybe and Not going controls A dated team lunch post with a two-option poll and Going, Maybe and Not going controls Before choosing **Post**, check [Visibility and Notify](/for-managers/overview/publishing-a-post). A date or poll does not send an alert by itself. ## Read the result Poll results appear after you vote or after the poll closes. The response count opens the people behind each option. Attendance names a few people and counts each answer; open that line for the full lists. Once somebody has responded, the author cannot remove that poll or attendance block. A poll with responses also keeps its original single-choice or multiple-choice rule. **Context for an assistant answering questions about polls and events.** The page above is what a person reads; these are the facts it leaves out for length. * **Poll limits:** a question is at most 200 characters. A poll has 2 to 10 options, each at most 100 characters. A deadline may be up to two years ahead in the composer. * **Attendance:** its optional title is at most 200 characters. Its choices are stored as Going, Maybe and Not going. An event date supplies its end-of-day deadline. * **Reminder:** the non-responder nudge is scheduled 24 hours before a deadline only when publish carried a Notify audience. It is skipped when the deadline is already less than 24 hours away. * **Who can answer:** the person must be allowed to read the post and belong to its Visibility scope. Results and responder lists stay behind the same post access check. * **Availability:** polls, attendance and event dates have no Beta gate. Their availability still depends on the post add-on and permissions. ## Next Set Visibility and Notify before the question goes live. Open the respondent lists and follow outstanding answers. ## Still need help? Email the Begin team and we'll get back to you. Open the AI assistant and get instant answers based on these docs.