# Absolute Zahlen in Umfragen

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/absolute-numbers-in-polls/32771>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** polls, completed\
**Created:** [1. September 2015 um 09:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/absolute-numbers-in-polls/32771 "2015-09-01T09:38:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![lightyear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lightyear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lightyear)\
**Post date:** [1. September 2015 um 09:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/absolute-numbers-in-polls/32771/1 "2015-09-01T09:38:05Z")

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Heyah,

I remember there was a great topic once explaining the usage of the poll-plugin, but even after searching the forum for 15min I can find it (found a reference to it, that leads to a 404 though). So in case that is already implemented, please let me know how to activate it and move this out of this section 😉 .

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Love the polls. We are using it internally to gauge interest and make participation easier. It also acts as a replacement for doodle. One thing we are using it for is to easily pre-organise events, for e.g. asking who’s gonna come and what food they want (and having emoji in it, makes it awesome):

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/0/609bb394a9309395fd3b3443bb2234d2e2a36262.png) 

However, the “relative” counts are really irrelevant in this case for us. So when looking at the results, to figure out how much pizza/sushi to order, I have to make the reverse calculation. It’d be great, if I could configure the poll to use absolute instead of relative numbers on a case-to-case-basis.

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