Quick Poll Plugin

Features

• Quick and simple polling solution.
• One question per poll.
• Unlimited answers per poll question.
• A poll could be InActive, Active or Closed.
• Multiple polls are can be active at the same time.
• Active polls can be voted for on the reatail store side.
• Polls can be scheduled to display between a start date and an end date.
• Option to display running poll results or displaying them only when closed or expired
• Results displayed using Bar Chart and/or Pie Chart.
• Both Registered and Anonymous users can also vote for a poll
• Fully Integrated with AbleCommerce merchant admin
• Easy to use ConLib controls that can be used on any page easily

Installation

• Step-1
  Before starting installation take a backup of following files in your store
  • Admin/menu.sitemap
  • Admin/breadcrumbs.sitemap
  
  
• Step-2
  Copy all files from WebSite folder to your store where AbleCommerce is installed. Copy all files to the corresponding directories in your store. For example copy everything from WebSite/ConLib/ folder to ConLib folder of your store and so on.
  Please make sure that you take backup of any existing file that gets updated.
  


• Step-3
  If you previously customized Admin/menu.sitemap and Admin/breadcrumbs.sitemap files you will have to manually update these files. Otherwise you can simply replace these files with the files provided in the Quick Poll installation. To manually update these files follow these steps
  
  Here is the code that you will have to add to menu.sitemap file. You can add this code anywhere in the main <siteMap> node.

  <siteMapNode title="Add-Ons" LookId="TopItemLook" roles="System,Admin,Jr. Admin">
      <siteMapNode title="Quick Poll" url="~/Admin/QuickPoll/Default.aspx" />
      <siteMapNode title="Plugables Add-Ons" url="~/Admin/Plugables/AddOns/Default.aspx" />
  </siteMapNode>

  
  If a node named 'Add-Ons' already exists you should just add the sub nodes code as follows

  <siteMapNode title="Quick Poll" url="~/Admin/QuickPoll/Default.aspx" roles="System,Admin,Jr. Admin" />

  Here is the code that you will have to add to breadcrumbs.sitemap file. You can add this code anywhere in the main <siteMap> node

  <siteMapNode title="Add-Ons">
      <siteMapNode url="~/Admin/QuickPoll/Default.aspx" title="Quick Poll">
      <siteMapNode url="~/Admin/QuickPoll/PollAnswers.aspx" title="Poll Answers" />
      <siteMapNode url="~/Admin/QuickPoll/PollResults.aspx" title="Poll Results" />
  </siteMapNode>

  If a node named 'Add-Ons' already exists you should just add the sub nodes code as follows

  <siteMapNode url="~/Admin/QuickPoll/Default.aspx" title="Quick Poll">
  <siteMapNode url="~/Admin/QuickPoll/PollAnswers.aspx" title="Poll Answers" />
  <siteMapNode url="~/Admin/QuickPoll/PollResults.aspx" title="Poll Results" />



• Step-4
  Run the SQL scripts on your database from InstallScripts/DB/ folder. As a precaution always take a backup of your database before running SQL scripts.

Installation of Quick Poll is complete. You can start using Quick Poll by going to the 'Add-Ons->QuickPoll' menu in merchant amdin.

ConLib Configuration

On your store you can make use of the featues made available by QuickPoll by using the ConLib controls provided by QuickPoll

To display a Poll you can use the [[ConLib:QuickPoll]] control in your scriptlets.

[[ConLib:QuickPoll ShowResults="true" ShowArchives="true"]]

• ShowResults property is used to show the a Poll Results.
• ShowArchives property is used to display all polls.