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Create a pulse to write your questions. Windmill saves the pulse as a draft. You choose participants, anonymity, and schedule later, when you launch the pulse. Nothing is sent until you launch.

Start a new pulse

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Open Pulse surveys

Open Pulse surveys and select New pulse.
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Describe what you want to learn

In the Create pulse dialog, enter a prompt in What do you want to learn from your team? Include any background that helps Windy write good questions.To start from an example, select one of the Ideas, such as Engagement survey, Weekly blockers, or AI usage. The idea fills the prompt, and you can edit it.
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Continue or start from scratch

Select Continue to let Windy generate questions from your prompt. Or select Create from scratch to start with one blank Text question and no generated content.
The Pulse setup page opens on a single step: Questions.

Write your questions

If you entered a prompt, Windy generates questions and suggests a name and description. You can edit all of them.
  • Icon: Select the icon to change it.
  • Name: Enter a name of up to 100 characters. The name shows in Slack and in your results.
  • Description: Add a short introduction of up to 500 characters. Respondents see it at the top of the survey.
  • Questions: Add, edit, reorder, or delete questions. See Questions and question types.
Select Preview to see the survey as respondents will see it. The preview updates while you edit.

Save the draft

Select Save draft. Save draft is available when the pulse has a name, at least one question, a label for each question, and complete answer choices. If it is not available, Windmill shows what to fix, such as Add a pulse name before saving or Give every question a title before saving. If you close Pulse setup before you save, Windmill discards your changes.

What Windmill saves

The pulse opens with the status Draft, and Windmill does not send it to anyone yet. You are the owner and the requester. You choose the participants, the anonymity setting, the schedule, and the expiration when you launch the pulse. Until then, you can keep editing the questions on the pulse’s Questions tab.

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