Second Addition to my FREEWARE section! Polling Web Part! 

Tags: Freeware Releases

Well, I was rather excited about my first freeware release, so I figured I tee up a second one. I wrote this polling web part despite the fact that SharePoint comes with surveys. The need came to write my own when I realized that SharePoint surveys take a ton of real estate and I needed to deploy a poll onto a page with a lot of information already on it. It is similar in design to a polling part from Acar, but I needed one that retained historical data so I wrote my own with some nice improvements.

Check out my "Weekly Poll" on the home page of my blog, or go here to see more screen shots and download the web part.


Cheers!

Phil

 
Posted by Phillip S. Wicklund on 5-Apr-08
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Very Buggy Webpartcommented onTuesday, 3-Jun-2008
Your webpart seems very buggy. When we refresh, it adds to the counter. When there are twho answers of the same name, the counter adds to both when submitted. We also want the vote to submit, and to pop up a graphic image stating they have already taken the poll. We only want them to take it once.

Phil Wicklundcommented onTuesday, 10-Jun-2008
I don’t consider any of the three things you mentioned to be bugs. First off, if you do a refresh, that always commits the last browser action – so it’s no surprise that if you just responded to a poll, an F5 will commit another response. Let’s call that a “Feature” of my webpart ;)

Secondly – who creates a poll that has two response options that are exactly the same? Nobody…

Thirdly – this is a feature request, not a bug. I never claimed that the poll only allows for one response. If you are polling your end users with a serious question, I wouldn’t recommend my poll. Use SharePoint surveys of surveymonkey.com or something. My web part is more for fun or entrainment purposes. It’s not a scientific poll. However, it is open source so do with it as you please…

Phil
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