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Elin Bevan
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July 2, 2026
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Whiteboard poll voting - editor, commenter or viewer permission needed?

  • July 2, 2026
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Hi, I have a whiteboard where we’d like to use the polling feature in a workshop. I have a Zoom workplace account through my company, and myself and a colleague are ‘editors’ on the board. We want to allow workshop participants to view the board and partcipate in voting/polls in the whiteboard. Can I share the ‘view only’ link in the meeting chat, will they still be able to vote? I don’t want to give everyone edit permission as I don’t want every participant to be able to move objects around on the board. Thanks.  

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Tash_Balaguer
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July 6, 2026

Hi ​@Elin Bevan 
 

No — participants who access your Zoom Whiteboard through a view-only link will not be able to vote in a voting or polling session.

Who Can Vote

  • Editors (with edit access): Can start and participate in voting sessions.
  • Viewers (view-only access): Cannot vote, as they lack editing and facilitation privileges.

How to Allow Voting Without Losing Control

If you want participants to vote but not move or edit objects:

  1. Grant temporary “Editor” access only during the voting portion of the workshop, then revert them to “Viewer” afterward.
  2. Alternatively, check if facilitation tools (like voting) can be enabled for non-owners — this depends on your account’s whiteboard settings and whether the host has disabled facilitation tools.

In short, sharing a view-only link will let participants see the board but not vote. To include them in voting, they must have edit permissions or facilitation tools must be explicitly enabled for them.

Hope this helps!

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