# Allow webinar poll questions to be optional

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-webinar-poll-questions-to-be-optional/54174>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** webinar\
**Created:** [July 15, 2021, 7:52am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-webinar-poll-questions-to-be-optional/54174 "2021-07-15T07:52:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![manuel.merzinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@manuel.merzinger](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/manuel.merzinger)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 7:52am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-webinar-poll-questions-to-be-optional/54174/1 "2021-07-15T07:52:36Z")

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**  
Currently the API does not allow poll questions to be marked as optional. This means that our participants have to answer all questions given in a poll.  
This is not ideal for our scenario.

Further reading here:

> [@Create Poll Web API cannot set question optional](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/create-poll-web-api-cannot-set-question-optional/54092):
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> Description We are currently integrating zoom webinars into our application and are creating polls for our planned webinars, so we can inquire participant interests accurately. However, we discovered today that the polls created through the api, require the participants to pick at least one answer per question, which is not desired. We want our participants to be able to answer or skip any question if they choose to do so. Sadly at the moment this seems to be unsupported according to [Create …](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/webinars/webinarpollcreate)

**Describe the solution you’d like**  
We want an option to create webinar polls with the ability to flag questions as “optional” or “required” dependent on the use-case.  
When creating or updating a poll through your API (and all related functions), we also need to have access to this setting.

Please consider adding the same functionality to meeting polls as well, your customers would appreciate that 🙂

**Describe alternatives you’ve considered**  
The alternative so far has been to give a “No answer” option, but not only is it annoying to deal with, it’s also a usability nightmare, since we have to remind the participants to pick an answer in every question, even if they do not want to give an answer.

We are also looking into other providers at the moment, as we and the several accounts we hold for webinar purposes are reliant on this feature for the future.

With Regards.