I’ve just published the first beta build of SPUserPoll for SharePoint 2013 to CodePlex. This is a complete overhaul from previous versions so has been built from the ground up to ensure supportability, maintainability and stability.
This build largely breaks compatibility with previous versions of SPUserPoll due to the massive amount of changes done. While the lists used for previous versions of SPUserPoll will continue to work, not much else will migrate cleanly. The existing lists will need the SPUserPoll field removed as it’s functionality is now out of the box.
- Complete scrap of existing code base, refactored from scratch
- No more SPSecurity.RunAsElevated
- Removed HttpContext and HttpSession usage
- Removed Microsoft Charts
- Layout and charts are now cross-browser
- Chart scales to available area
- Optimized Queries
- Migrated to a SharePoint 2013 Visual Studio solution
- All lists are now referenced using SPContext
- Poll lists are now created at the SPWeb level not the SPSite.RootWeb
- Removed need for HttpCache, all queries are cached using standard SharePoint query caching
- Lists are created automatically as needed
- Significant memory optimization
- Removed SPUserPoll custom field altogether
- Charts built using jqPlot
- Updated and simplified user interface
- Initial work to make SPUserPoll work with SharePoint Online. After this build the only two open items to allow for sandbox deployment are
- Needs client object model driven editing of the web part
- Currently still using SPSecurity.RunAsElevated for logging end user votes
- Initial work to make SPUserPoll work with SharePoint Online. After this build the only two open items to allow for sandbox deployment are
- Needs client object model driven editing of the web part
- Currently still using SPSecurity.RunAsElevated for logging end user votes
