Microsoft Sharepoint Web Parts

Sharepoint Quick Poll Web Part

Poll Web Part

The Quick Poll Web Part allows to quickly publish simple user polls/votings. It allows to define one question and multiple answers. The poll results are displayed as a graphical pie or bar chart. Each user can only vote once. As soon as a user has voted, the poll result chart is displayed. The Web Part can be used both with Windows Sharepoint Services V3, MOSS and Sharepoint 2010.  The following parameters can be configured: Question and possible Answers The Poll expiration date Pie chart or Bar chart result display Please note that we also offer the "Quick Survey" Web Part which stores the Poll definition and results in a Sharepoint List. Product Price Quick Poll Web Part Free Evaluation Version Unrestricted Evaluation Version Free Quick Poll Web Part License Key USD 50.00 Web Part Installation Instructions  You can also send us a PO via e-mail to info@amrein.com  or by fax to ++41 62 823 75 74

Installation Instructions: download the Quick Poll Web Part Installation Instructions (PDF file, see above)  download and unpack the AEPollWebpart.zip file. either install the web part manually or deploy the feature to your server/farm as described in the instructions. Navigate to a page where you would like to place the webpart and choose "Site Actions/Edit Page" Add the web part to the appropriate zone. The web part is listed in the "Amrein Engineering" web part gallery section Configure the following Web Part properties in the Web Part Editor "Miscellaneous" pane section as needed: Poll Question: Enter the poll question. Poll Answers:  Enter as many answers as needed, each one separated by a semicolon (as eg. red;green;blue) Published: untick this box if you want to hide the web part during the poll configuration setup phase. The web part will then be only visible if the page is in "Edit Mode". Show Results as Pie Chart: check this box if you want to display the poll results as a pie chart. Leave this box unchecked if you rather want to display the results as a space saving bar chart: Poll Expiration Date:  optionally enter a poll expiration date. The web part will display just the poll results if this date has been passed. Leave this field empty if the poll should not expire.   Submit Button Text: allows you to change/localize the default button text ("Submit"). You can also enter the URL of an image which then acts as an image button. Example: /Subsite/Site Pictures/vote.gif Question CSS Style: enter the optional CSS style(s) for the Question text. Example: font:20px calibri;color:orange Answers CSS Style:  enter the optional CSS style(s) for the Answers text. Example: font:18px arial; color:green Poll Width: enter the desired width in pixels of the Poll Web Part License Key: enter your Product License Key (as supplied after purchase of the Quick Poll Web Part license). Leave this field empty if you are using the free evaluation version. Reset Poll: You can reset the poll via the "Reset Poll" link at the top of the Poll Web Part configuration pane:

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priyanka sharma   6/3/2009 10:40  Once a user has participated in poll, poll results are displayed . Now if another user has logged in , poll results are displayed , how do another user paticipate in that poll? Juerg   6/3/2009 11:40  Please note that a browser cookie is set on the machine when the user has voted. Thus it's currently not possible to participate more than once on the same computer by simply switching the Sharepoint account via "Sign in as a different user" (unless you log in as a different user on the Windows level) Dave Williams   6/6/2009 10:40  Does this web part work in anonymous mode? Juerg   6/8/2009 10:32  yes, it works in anonymous mode (The user’s poll participation is stored in a browser cookie). Thomas   6/9/2009 19:29  I'm receiving this error when submitting poll selection. 'The file is not checked out. You must first check out this document before making changes.' Do you know what could be causing this? Using MOSS 2007 Juerg   6/10/2009 09:58  Thomas, was your page in „Edit“ mode when you submitted the poll selection ? Also, did you uncheck the “Published” option ? If it is unchecked, then the web part is hidden unless the page is in “Edit” mode. I suspect that the code which tries to hide the web part causes this message (we could not reproduce this yet). Juerg   6/10/2009 17:12  Thomas, the problem most probably arises if the Poll Web Part is on a web part page belonging to a Sharepoint Document Library and the "Require Check Out" under the "Versioning" menu in the Document Library properties is checked. This means that turning on "Require Check Out" prevents any user (admin or otherwise) from properly using the Poll Web Part. tommy   6/13/2009 09:21  I have deployed your webpart - and its showing up in the page and I am able to vote it as well, but once I vote for the poll, the chart is not shown up, what could have caused this ? priyanka sharma   6/17/2009 12:22  if a user has participated in poll and click on show results....how will that user will go back to the poll? isnt a provision of going back to the poll question is nice though that user cant vote again. Juerg   6/17/2009 13:04  as they say: "it's a feature, not a bug!" Do you think it would be useful to present the questions (instead of the results) after a user has already voted ? Tricia   6/17/2009 21:22  Hi, I installed this webpart and created a poll. I was able to answer and get the results in the pie chart automatically but it seems anyone who is not an administrator when they click 'Submit' they get an access denied page, but when they go back to the site they get the pie chart as if they answered the poll but their vote isn't included in the numbers though. Do you know what may be causing this? Juerg   6/18/2009 11:54  Tricia, The Poll web part does currently not work for users having only "Read" permission. There seems to be no way to grant permissions to users with read-only permissions to save the ongoing poll results in a web part property. Thus we will have to improve the web part to use a Sharepoint list to save the poll results. thewire   6/23/2009 23:37  cool web part. saving the results in a sharepoint list would be nice so then the data would be available for something else if needed. also, i'm not sure what service you're using to create the pie chart (google perhaps?) but it would be nice if https would be used so if our sharepoint is using https, then we don't get the mixed content/not trusted notification. Richard   7/8/2009 08:07  I have installed the webpart and it looks really cool! One bug i have found is if a user submits his vote, waits for the pie chart to load, and then refeshes his page it resends his vote and the user can keep adding and incrementing his vote which could skew the results. Will this be fixed on updated versions? Ben He   8/5/2009 04:52  Cool Web Part, but I found some problem (not sure if they are bugs). As Richard said, when refresh the page, the previous vote will be adding and incremending by 1. The other problem is user A sees totally 4 votes while user B sees 5 votes at the same time. Please advise what caused these problems? Bill Puskarich   8/5/2009 16:10  I'm receiving this error when submitting poll selection. 'The file is not checked out. You must first check out this document before making changes.' Do you know what could be causing this? Using MOSS 2007 the cases does not exist about having a Document Library with versioning are there some permissions issues? Juerg   8/6/2009 12:19  Bill, check if the following scenario apply to your settings: • Activate the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrasturcture site collection feature • Create a new Document Library • Create a new Web Part Page in that Document Library • Add a Web Parts • Check the "Yes" option for "Require Check Out" under the "Versioning" menu in the Document Library properties • Log in as any user (admin or otherwise) • Change a drop down menu value The user entering data receives an Exception from SharePoint which reads: “The file is not checked out. You must first check out this document before making changes”. This suggests that turning on Require Check Out prevents any user (admin or otherwise) from using the Web Part. Does this apply to your situation (eg. the page is in a Document Library with “Require Check Out” turned on) ? Fred   8/19/2009 22:06  Juerg; I have the same issue; If the list has had "doc must be checked out..." even if it was subsequenty turned off. I even turned off versioning (major & minor). The issue seemed to be in master page gallery; By default major/minor versioning it on as is approval as is checkin/out. Any thoughts? Michelle   9/17/2009 07:40  hi. I have already uploadedf the webpart into the web gallery.. but when i goto the page that i wanna put in the webpart.. it says unable to add selected web part(s). AE Poll Web Park : Cannot import this Web Part Mani K   9/21/2009 17:53  Hi, Your providing the .webpart and .DLL files as part of the package. If i would like to deploy the webparts across my farm then what's the right method for deployment using .webpart and .dll files. Please suggest. thanks, Shellie   9/22/2009 03:42  Is there a way to resize. I would like to add this web part to the left under our quick launch menu, but the size is too big. It pushes everything over to the right. Juerg   9/22/2009 11:22  Shellie, I assume you refer to the result pie chart (the questionnaire should actually wrap fine): If the pie chart would be made any smaller, it would become very hard to interpret. Juerg   9/22/2009 11:30  Mani, you would actually have to create a WSP solution file and deploy using the stadm command line tool. Shellie   9/25/2009 09:07  I am only using it for a yes or no question and we don't have that many user. Is there any other way to create a bar graph instead of a pie chart result? Juerg   9/29/2009 15:43  Mani, try to use WSPBuilder (see http://www.codeplex.com/wspbuilde) Juerg   10/2/2009 16:05  Ben He, we have now fixed the problem (incrementing the vote counter when refreshing the page just after having voted). Please re-download the ZIP file, extract and replace the DLL (also do an IISRESET if you deployed the DLL to the GAC). VCCCD   10/9/2009 00:42  Installed the eval version per instructions above in the \bin folder. I can see the poll but after submitting, a SharePoint error appears with information below: An unexpected error has occurred. Web Parts Maintenance Page: If you have permission, you can use this page to temporarily close Web Parts or remove personal settings. For more information, contact your site administrator. (also tried the GAC with iisreset but same result). Juerg   10/9/2009 12:33  VCCCD, please check your web.config file (in the virtual directory root of your Sharepoint web site, typically found at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80) if your Trust level is set to "WSS_Minimal". If yes, please modify the web.config file by changing the following tag <TRUST level="WSS_Minimal" originUrl="" />  to <TRUST level="WSS_Medium" originUrl="" /> Daniel   10/12/2009 11:43  If I create a poll, the first line will be this one: setting session=AEPolla63b2b6d_292d_4d. What can I do to turn this off? Juerg   10/12/2009 11:57  Daniel, sorry for the inconvenience! A week ago, we published a new version of the web part but didn’t notice that we forgot to remove that internal message. This has been fixed on October 5 and you can re-download the ZIP file, extract and then replace the DLL. Kat   10/14/2009 19:17  Looks really cool but do you know when you'll have a version that works on read only publishing pages? I would really like to use this but I've got read only pages that we'd be using it on. Gary    10/14/2009 19:30  I am receiving this error. Render Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Can you help me out here? Thx Juerg   10/15/2009 10:21  Gary, what exactly did you enter into the Poll Question and Poll Answers fields ? Does the error happen when looking at the Poll form or Poll results ? Juerg   10/16/2009 15:23  Kat, we're working on this and hope to have a new version ready by the end of October. Gary   10/16/2009 17:52  Juerg. This happens in the display after you have entered in the information as per your instructions. I had the first version of this working before. I updated the dll as per your directions to Ben He (downloaded the zip and extracted it to the GAC). The error renders in the Poll form after you edit the questions and answer. Juerg   10/19/2009 16:17  Gary, can you send a screenshot (both of the error and your web part configuration) to support@amrein.com ? Debbie   10/26/2009 22:34  Trying to install this webpart. Updated the web.config and put the dll inthe bin directory but getting error when trying to inport. Getting "Unable to add selected web part(s). Cannot import the quick poll web part. Any help would be great. Thanks Debbe Juerg   10/27/2009 11:12  Debbie, we fixed a problem which might have been responsible for your "Cannot import" error. Can you re-download the Zip file, extract and then replace the DLL in your bin directory ? Debbie   10/27/2009 19:37  Juerg - I've got it but now getting...Unable to add selected web part(s). A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Page cannot be displayed or imported. The type is not registered as safe. Thanks Debbie   10/27/2009 20:11  So sorry to be a pest. I got the web part loaded finally. Now I'm getting this error...Render Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Thanks Debbie Debbie   10/27/2009 20:17  Also did I read that sharepoint readers are unable to submit to the poll? Thanks Debbie Juerg   10/28/2009 10:43  Debbie, do you get the error after having configured the web part (eg. defining the question and a set of answers) or after having voted ? Juerg   10/28/2009 10:46  Debbie, you currently cannot place the Quick Poll web part onto the top Sharepoint homepage (which is a "publishing" page) without giving users edit rights. We will be releasing a new version of the web part in November which removes this restriction. Martin   10/28/2009 18:13  i receive a Render Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. doing something wrong? Juerg   11/2/2009 18:40  Debbie and Martin, the web part uses Session State to keep track if the user already has voted. Thus Session State needs to be enabled (it actually is enabled by default). You can enable session state across the entire farm as follows via Central Administration: On the taskbar, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration. In the top navigation bar, click the Application Management tab. On the Application Management page, in the Office SharePoint Servers Shared Services section, click Configure session state. On the Configure Session State page, in the Enable Session State section, select the Enable Session State check box to enable session state for the farm. To specify the duration of sessions, in the Timeout section, enter a number (in minutes) in the Session should be timed out after (minutes) box. The default is 60 minutes. Click OK to save the session state configuration. Chris   11/10/2009 08:33  Is there any way for users to view the results without actually voting, but not having the poll expire? Juerg   11/11/2009 16:32  Chris, no, there is not (since we thought this would be a clever feature to force users to vote and then get to see the results as a benefit). We think about adding this feature to the next release (scheduled for late November). Ali   11/12/2009 05:54  Simple, nice, useful & clean webpart, thanks for the efforts & quick response to others. My questions: Are the votes saved in list? For adding the webpart in a publishing homepage, should the user edit rights be on the portal level or list (if there is one)??? Waiting for November updates, cheers Jorge   12/4/2009 21:38  Juerg, Your webparts are very cools. But, It's with this error: Session State must be enabled! Do you know is that? Juerg   12/7/2009 11:27  Jorge, the web part needs Session State to be enabled. The procedure is different for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0. If you use WSS 3.0, please do the following: Check you web.config file at c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80 and locate the following lines: <!-- <add name="Session" type="System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule"/> --> Please remove the comment brackets as follows: <add name="Session" type="System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule"/> to enable Session State. If you are using MOSS 2007, see the post a few lines above. Chad   12/9/2009 17:47  I am loving this web part. Thank you so much for creating it. I did have one question. Users are still unable to vote if they only have read access. Is this something that will be resolved sometime in the future? Juerg   12/22/2009 16:49  Chad, we will soon release a new version which will remove this limitation. Bhakti   1/9/2010 10:39  Getting "Personalization Error:Request for the permission of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Security.SharePointPermission, Microsoft.SharePoint.Security, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' failed.Which is the most productive day of the week at workplace?" error on answering poll in AE poll webpart. We are using Evaluation version of AE poll webpart is it free lifetime? Rob    1/13/2010 22:20  Hello. I'm stumped. I uploaded the webpart, dropped the .dll file into C:\WINDOWS\assembly, but was unable to locate a SafeControl section in my web.config file. The closest matches were add assembly lines ... I entered the SafeControl line here as it was listed above and also tried modifying it to match other existing add assembly lines - <add assembly="AEPollWebpart, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=bc71f15fa1ed28f6"/> - but with no luck. I still get the message "Unable to add selected web part(s). Cannot import the Quick Poll Web Part." Thoughts? Juerg   1/14/2010 14:18  Rob, do NOT add the SafeControl line to the <add assembly> section. You are probably not looking at the proper web.config file for your application. The correct one is contained in the virtual directory root of your Sharepoint web site, typically found at c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80 Mado   1/17/2010 19:30  I'm deployed the web part and everything is working probably with administrator but the problem with the users have a read only or view permissions what can i do??? I need a hlep soon please choste11   1/18/2010 23:21  I'm having the same problem as Bhakti below: Personalization Error:Request for the permission of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Security.SharePointPermission, Microsoft.SharePoint.Security, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' failed AJ   1/19/2010 16:37  hey all - I'm having the same error message as Bhakti and choste11. Juerg - any advice on how to fix that message? AJ   1/19/2010 16:41  also, when you go into Edit Mode to add / update the poll options / answers - it resets the votes. :( AJ   1/19/2010 16:43  forgot to mention - I've enabled the session state in my web.config file. Juerg   1/26/2010 10:54  AJ, choste11 and Bhakti, your TRUST level (as set in web.config) is not sufficient to grant "SharePoint Permission". We thus recommend to move the DLL from the BIN directory to the GAC at c:\windows\assembly. Just use drag&drop to move the DLL, followed by an "iisreset" command. shaz   1/26/2010 23:39  I'm getting the following error on the published Survey web part in WSS 3.0. Error: Session State must be enabled! Any idea what I need to enable? Thanks! Juerg   1/27/2010 09:58  shaz, if you use WSS 3.0, please do the following: Check you web.config file at c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80 and locate the following line: <!-- <add name="Session" type="System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule"/> --> Please remove the comment brackets as follows: <add name="Session" type="System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule"/> to enable Session State. Mado   1/29/2010 11:21  Hh Juery,,,I'm deployed the web part and everything is working probably with administrator but the problem with the users have a read only or view permissions what can i do??? choste11   2/2/2010 18:11  Hi Juerg , your suggestion worked! I received an error after making the change but everything works after I removed the webpart and readded it. kward   2/8/2010 20:08  I was wondering if anyone has found a work around so the read only users can vote. This web part works great if users have Contribute access or higher, but I need something that will work for Read-Only user. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Juerg   2/24/2010 15:59  Mado and kward, we have now fixed the problem regarding "read only" users. Please re-download the updated Zip file and replace the DLL. Ricardo Shuck   2/24/2010 19:21  We can't make the Webpart work in anonymous mode. The webpart is shown, but when the user clicks submit, it asks for password. If you cancel the authentication it still gives you the results. Any solution to this? This is a public site. Mado   2/28/2010 11:13  Thank you Juerg, now it is working Properly with "read only" users again thanks alot Juerg   3/2/2010 11:30  Ricardo, can you check if the new version is properly loaded by by looking at the top of the web part’s configuration pane which should display "Version 1.1.0" ? John   3/4/2010 10:38  Hi!! When I press "Vote now" I get the error: "Error submit:Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\layouts\AEPollc5b6f79c_37d2_43.txt' is denied" can anyone help me with this? thanks in advance!! Michael   3/8/2010 04:09  We also get the error "Error submit:Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\layouts\AEPoll2af672c9_07f3_48.txt' is denied. " when clicking on submit. Juerg   3/9/2010 16:01  John & Michael, the Poll web part writes the poll results to a file in the MOSS 12 hive at: c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\layouts\ It thus needs write access to this folder which we are granting by using the Sharepoint application pool’s account to perform this operation. Can you check if you locked down your system to prevent this ? Michael   3/10/2010 06:26  Thanks Jeurg, that was the problem. Alex Talarico   3/10/2010 22:09  Juerg - it seems you're fairly responsive to this thread. Since this web part writes into the Layouts directory, is it a fair assumption that a load balanced system is not supported? Do you recommend any workaround for such farms? ACP   3/11/2010 18:20  I downloaded the file. Dropped the dll into the virtual directory for my site. Then uploaded the webpart and got the message Cannot import the Quick Poll Web Part. The webpart is on the server is the C:\spadmin, which is a directory that was setup for items on this particular site collection Juerg   3/11/2010 18:23  ACP, you actually need to drop the DLL into the c:\windows\assembly folder Juerg   3/11/2010 18:27  Alex, your assumption is correct. We’ll thus be going to save the poll data in Sharepoint list for the next release. ACP   3/11/2010 20:10  Moved the dll into the c:windows\assembly and still get the Cannot import the AE Quick Poll Web Part. Error ACP   3/11/2010 20:56  Got it to work on a refresh. Very weird as it wasn't working and then all of the sudden it now works. Question - Where are the results and poll name and answers being stored?? I don't see a list out there that jumps out at me. Juerg   3/12/2010 17:12  ACP, I forgot to mention that you need to do an "iisreset" command to flush the DLL cache. The poll question and answers are stored in the web part instance and the poll results are saved to a file in the _layouts directory. Brian   3/26/2010 18:58  I'm having the same error on this as well as the weather web part. I get an error saying AE Poll Web Part : Cannot import the AE Quick Poll Webpart. I've put the .dlls in and added the line to the web.config and uploaded the web part. Am I missing something? Thanks Juerg   3/29/2010 18:20  Brian, can you check if the AEPollWebpart.dll file sits in the c:\windows\assembly folder as expected ? Ernie   4/21/2010 23:03  Is there a way to change the directory where the poll results are placed? Juerg   4/22/2010 10:11  Ernie, we now have added a web.config appSettings variable to specify a custom path for the poll results file: <appSettings>    .    .   <add key="AEQP_PollFile" value="c:\yourpath" /> </appSettings> If you prefer, you might also consider our "Quick Survey" web part, which stores the poll results in a Sharepoint List. Joan   4/22/2010 13:56  This is a great web part. Thanks, Juerg! I deployed it with no problem last night and had some users test and it was working great. But this morning all results are gone. Is this a session stage issue? Note: The IT dept. regularly pushes things to our desktops. Could this be an issue? Juerg   4/22/2010 14:29  Joan, can you check if the AEPollxxxxx.txt file (the xxxx represent your actual poll ID) in c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\layouts disappears over night (the poll results are kept in that file). If that is the case (and if there's also a reason behind this) then please either - select a more suitable file location (see post just above this one) or - consider our "Quick Survey" web part which is similar but stores the results in a Sharepoint List. Jennifer   5/14/2010 15:45  Hi. We are just now trying out the evaluation web part and love the idea of it! I've had a few others submit entries, but sometimes it shows the total results and sometimes it will just showo my one result. When I refresh the page, it will show 1 result, then 3 results, then 1 result, etc. Not sure what to do about this? Tracy   5/26/2010 16:09  Deployed the web part and it is working well. Am getting strange results from computer to computer however. For example, the pie chart I get shows 18 results representing 3 of the four possible answers. The person across from me shows the pie chart as having only 10 representing all 4 possible answers. We have both hit refresh and then gone out of the browser and gone back in. Any thoughts as to why that would be varying so much from computer to computer? Juerg   5/26/2010 17:06  Tracy, your assumption is correct: each web front-end server maintains its own poll results list in the 12 Hive \layouts folder. We thus recommend to switch to the “Quick Survey” web part which you find on the Quick Survey Web Part page This web part looks and acts the same but stores both the poll questions and poll results in a Sharepoint List which works fine in a multi-server farm. AC   6/9/2010 15:50  I am getting a broken link where the pie chart should be. The voting feature itself works and it increments the number of votes so far. How do I get the pie chart image to come up? Juerg   6/11/2010 12:11  AC, the pie chart image is actually dynamically fetched by the client browser from http://chart.apis.google.com ,thus the client needs internet access (otherwise it displays the broken image). Please note that you can uncheck the “Show Results as Pie Chart” option to use a bar chart instead (which is generated locally by the web part ). SD   6/29/2010 22:28  Hi, we installed the evaluation version in our development environment.Once a user has participated in poll, poll results are displayed . Now if another user has logged in different machine (or in his local machine ), poll results are displayed , how do another user paticipate in that poll? Juerg   6/30/2010 11:13  SD, please check if the poll has not already expired (in case you set the "Poll Expiration Date"). If not, please set the "Submit Button Text" to trace and send us the debug information generated by the web part SD   6/30/2010 17:58  Hi thanks for your quick reply below is the text when i use the "trace" in submit button text CreateChildControls Web Part ID=g_bd4900ad_85bd_42dc_8e25_2202ab6832a0 Cookie Name=AEPollbd4900ad_85bd_42 PollFile=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\layouts\AEPollbd4900ad_85bd_42.txt Poll Result=0;1;0;0 Regular Button= LicPath=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\layouts LicFile=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\Features\AEPollWebpart\License.txt License File Read Error:Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\Features\AEPollWebpart\License.txt'. Thanks in advance Juerg   6/30/2010 18:39  SD, thanks! We’ve checked and everything looks OK. Are you sure you did NOT set a “Poll Expiration Date” ? Also, are you sure that a user on a different machine only sees the Poll results ? The web part places a cookie on the local client machine if someone places a vote, thus only one vote (per poll) can be submitted on the same machine. Juerg   7/1/2010 13:02  SD, the current version of the „Quick Poll“ web part does indeed not reset the user’s cookie if the poll is being reset by the poll administrator. Thus until now, you had been forced to remove the web part from the page and then re-add it to create a new poll (as long as other users already did supply their votes). We have now fixed this problem, eg. the web part now correctly re-opens the poll to users that already have been voted if the poll is being reset (without having to remove/re-add the web part). You can re-download the updated Zip file, extract and then replace the DLL (followed by an “iisreset” command f you placed the DLL in c:\windows\assembly). Chip   7/27/2010 21:31  The web part is up and running but we have a problem with most of our users - they try to vote and get an access denied message: Error: Access Denied Current user You are currently signed in as: (verified user) As an admin, I try to duplicate the problem and it works fine for me. To further cloud it, I will ask a user to return to the page to recreate the problem, and they see the pie chart results, which I am assuming means that the machine was captured as a submitter and the cookie was set. Any ideas? Juerg   7/29/2010 11:55  Chip, the error is most probably related to missing read/write permissions for the LAYOUTS folder. The web part stores the results in a file at the following location: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\layouts\AEPollxxxxx.txt' To fix the problem you observe, the security settings must be changed for the “layouts” folder to include read/write permissions for the Sharepoint application pool account. Can you check if you locked down your system to prevent this ? BTW, we have also a slightly different version (Quick Survey web part) which stores the poll results in a Sharepoint List instead.