Sharing Results Publicly

Applies to:Owner, Admin

Running a survey and never reporting back is the surest way to depress the response rate on your next one. A public results page gives you a link you can put in a broadcast, on your community website, or in meeting minutes — showing residents that their answers were counted.

Publishing the page

On the results page of any launched survey, find the Public results page card and switch it on. A link is generated immediately, and it stays the same if you switch the page off and on again — so a URL you’ve already shared won’t break.

The page is public. Anyone with the link can open it without logging in, so treat it as genuinely published rather than semi-private.

Choosing what appears

Nothing is shared until you choose it. Once the page is enabled, a checkbox appears for every question in the survey, and only the ones you tick are visible.

This is deliberate. A survey often mixes a headline question worth publishing with follow-up questions that aren’t — contact details, operational preferences, or free-text comments where someone has vented at length. Publish the first, withhold the rest.

Take particular care with free-text questions. Ticking one publishes every comment on it, verbatim and in full. Read them before you tick.

Caution

Names never appear on the public page, on any question type, even for a survey set to Show who responded. Comments are published without attribution.

That protects the writer’s name but not always their identity. In a small community, “the family in the corner unit with the three dogs” identifies someone perfectly well regardless of whether a name is attached. Read free-text comments as a neighbour would before publishing them.

Turning it off

Switching the toggle off takes the page down. The link stops working immediately, and turning it back on later restores the same address.

Bear in mind that anything already public may have been read, copied, or forwarded. Unpublishing is a way to stop future access, not to retract what people have already seen.

Where to go next

• Reviewing results before you publish? See Viewing Survey Results.
• Announcing the outcome by email? See Sending Broadcasts.