Project Description

SPUserPoll provides your SharePoint environment with a set of web parts to allow your end users to create simple polls. It does this without the hassle of the standard SharePoint surveys which is not intended to create a simple 1 question poll.

SPUserPoll is developed by Edwin Vriethoff.

SPUserPoll is a poll web part for SharePoint and it allows site users to quickly create polls anywhere in the Site Collection. The poll Web Part is designed to provide a user friendly interface: Important settings and actions are available from within the Web Part. There is no direct need to work with the SharePoint Web Part setting menu and poll data is managed from normal SharePoint lists. Administrators can manage and keep track of all created polls from a centralized list.

A standard SharePoint installation also comes with a polling mechanism as part of the Survey Lists, but these surveys are complicated and require quite some time to configure. The SPUserPoll Web Part allows users to setup a single topic poll within a few minutes.

I hope to receive feedback from you on my project: wishes, ideas and tips for the project are welcome. The roadmap for the project is provided below.

Basic functionality

• Poll settings are configured directly from the web part display or SharePoint lists
• A centralized lists references all polls in the sitecollection for Administrators
• Publish and unpublish functionality

The initial version is designed for INTRANET environments because it requires login names. It will work on internet sites, but users will be able to vote multiple times

Project roadmap:

Version 0.1 (RELEASED Dec 28 2008)

Initial version

Version 0.1.1 (RELEASED Jan 2 2009)

Deployment of poll images
Poll Closingdate
Caching
Fixed workitem #3534
Fixed workitem #3550

Version 0.2 (RELEASED Jan 17 2009)

Column chart results
Bar chart results
Pie chart results
Doughnut results
Show the created poll answers to the poll owner during the "unpublished" state.
Centralized storage of answers and responses
Fixed workitem #3552
Fixed workitem #3577

Version 0.2.1 (RELEASED Jan 24 2009)

MOSS & WSS Compatible
Multiple Answers
Check if the poll name is in use
Fixed workitem #3643
Fixed workitem #3616
Fixed workitem #3672

Version 0.2.2 (RELEASED Jan 27 2009)

Anonymous voting
Fixed workitem #3684

Version 0.3 (RELEASED Feb 22 2009)

Read documentation for upgrade instructions!
Input validation
Fieldcontrol for correct response edit filtering
Css file
Option to hide the "show results" link before a user has voted
Reset poll cache on list changes

Version 0.4

Automated security management on the poll response and answer list
User customizable graph colors
Multilanguage
Remove attachments option from created poll lists
Result view only web part

Version 0.5

Support for Internet sites
Delete poll and the poll's lists from the Admin list
Print results
Poll preview (before publishing)

Version 0.6

Export poll data to csv/excel

Version 1.0

Documentation