What's the logic for "Vote" fields?

[Sarah Green]

When setting up a voting field, how exactly does the "Votes per user" logic work? Are these votes spread across ALL ideas? Are they limited to views?

[Tanguy Crusson · Accepted solution]

@Sarah Green think of it as a way to seek input: "If you had $10, how would you allocate it among the following ideas?". We found this to be a pretty effective way to get input from leadership or stakeholders. Voting for 10 ideas isn't the same as saying it's $6 for one idea, and then $1 for four other ideas.

The way this works is you create a field, add it to a view where you filter down the list of ideas, share it with people, and then discuss the results. 

If you want to seek input from different groups of people (e.g. sales, support which would vote for different things) or for the same group at different times (e.g. support in Q1, support in Q2) then you can create multiple Votes fields which you add to separate views. You can look at all the results in one view by adding multiple votes fields to a single view. 

E.g. 

• Support input - Q1
• Sales input - Q1
• Leadership input - Q1
• Total votes = formula adding these 3. 

[Sarah Green]

@Tanguy Crusson so is a user's votes view specific?

Let's say I have a vote field set up that has 5 votes per user. If there is an idea in one view and a user uses all 5 votes on that idea, would they have 5 votes to use on that same idea if it's in another view? Or once they use their 5 votes, they're done regardless of view?

[Tanguy Crusson]

It is not view specific, it a number of votes to spread across ideas. 

[Gabriel Buck]

Do you mind telling me how you found the votes field or set it up? I do not see the available options. Is this a custom field?

[Tanguy Crusson]

Fields > create a field > field type: Votes

[Sarah Green]

@Gabriel Buck Team Votes Field (atlassian.com)