Question

I installed and configured the Poll Module to work fine. The website I am working on will have a Poll instance on a page either as a left rail or a right rail item. The Polls would be setup in a separate folder. On the page item there will be a multilist field which will point to the Polls folder and the user can select whichever poll they choose to. The folder will also contain different sublayouts which will could be selected to be displayed on the rail. I have some custom code which will look at the above mentioned multilist field and show these rail items.

I don’t know how to display a Poll programmatically. I haven’t found any code samples and also not sure where to set the sublayout. Should I set it on the Poll template itself and then let use code to display it? How can I achieve this in code? Any code samples would be helpful.

Answer 1

Hoping that you will this time accept the answer, I wrote the following for you (based on the OMS Poll module:

Read out the field on your item:

 Sitecore.Data.Fields.ReferenceField selectedPoll = (Sitecore.Data.Fields.ReferenceField)Sitecore.Context.Item.Fields["Poll"];

Get the pollItem:

 if (selectedPoll.TargetItem != null)
            {
                Item pollItem = selectedPoll.TargetItem;

                if (pollItem != null)
                { 

Check if the poll is opened or closed and place:

 Sitecore.Data.Fields.CheckboxField pollClosed = (Sitecore.Data.Fields.CheckboxField)pollItem.Fields["Closed"];

                    if (pollClosed.Checked == false)
                    {
                        // Set the header of the snippetBlock
                        ltPollHeader.Text = pollItem.Name;

                        PollVotingSublayout pollSublayout = (PollVotingSublayout)LoadControl("/sitecore modules/Shell/Poll Module/Controls/PollVotingSublayout.ascx");
                        pollSublayout.Attributes.Add("sc_parameters", "PollPath=" + pollItem.Paths.FullPath);
                        pollSublayout.CurrentPoll = (PollItem)pollItem;
                        this.pollRegion.Controls.Add(pollSublayout);

                        phPollSnippet.Visible = true;

                        int blockPos = 0;

                        if (snippetField != null)
                        {
                            if (snippetField.GetItems().Any())
                            {
                                blockPos = 1;
                            }
                        }

                        string cssClass = String.Empty;

                        if (blockPos == 0)
                        {
                            cssClass = "snippetColHomeFirst";
                        }

                        this.SetClass("snippetColHome", cssClass);
                    }   

Hope that you can make up something using this snippets. Good luck!