# Create Poll Web API cannot set question optional **URL:** \ **Category:** API and Webhooks\ **Tags:** webinar\ **Created:** [July 13, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/create-poll-web-api-cannot-set-question-optional/54092 "2021-07-13T16:50:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**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, 7:58am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/create-poll-web-api-cannot-set-question-optional/54092/3 "2021-07-15T07:58:40Z")
Hello @MaxM, thank you for your quick response. Here is the feature request, I hope it is sufficiently filled with details: > [@Allow webinar poll questions to be optional](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/allow-webinar-poll-questions-to-be-optional/54174): > > 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: 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… If there is anything else you would like to know, or need any more information, please be free to contact me. As an additional question, is there currently a way to set webinar poll questions optional by other means? I’ve looked through your documentation and either I have missed it, or it is not described yet. I could have sworn that at one point the option for “optional” flashed up in the web-application, but I am not sure of the circumstances that were present at the moment, nor if I remember it correctly. Thank you for your support. With Regards, Manuel --- _[View the full topic](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/create-poll-web-api-cannot-set-question-optional/54092)._