IMPORTANT: Voting is a "legacy" module that is no longer offered but which is currently in the Maintenance stage of the Product Life Cycle.

If your organization uses subscriber polls, Higher Logic Thrive Marketing Professional gives you the ability to write poll information and results to your iMIS database via the Ballot writeback.

Writeback data

The writeback include the following information:

• Ballot ID
• Ballot Name
• Date Started
• Date Votes Submitted
• Date Votes Confirmed

Writeback schedule

The writeback can be executed on-demand or it can be scheduled for individual mailings when a survey is used.

Votes that are related to a specific ballot can be written any time after the voting starts.

There is a button on the Ballot Report Page that will initiate the writeback. Higher Logic Thrive Marketing Professional will send you an email message when the writeback is complete.

Ballots vs Surveys

In Higher Logic Thrive Marketing Professional, the key differentiator between a ballot and a survey is the level of privacy.

• Ballot - an individual's selections are private
• Survey - survey data is visible in Higher Logic Thrive Marketing Professional

TIP: Make sure that your colleagues know that individuals' ballot selections do not display in Higher Logic Thrive Marketing Professional or in iMIS.

User-defined table

To ensure that this writeback will work as intended:

• create a user-defined table,
• name that table INFORMZ_BALLOTS, and
• name the columns (fields) and data types exactly as shown below.

NOTE: If the names are not identical, the writeback will not work.

Below is the table structure for the INFORMZ_BALLOTS table.

See User-Defined Tables to learn the initial steps to create a user-defined table.

View INFORMZ_BALLOTS Table Details