New Episerver Forms => Polls guide

Say that you have a multiple choice element that you'd like to render results of in a poll.

This is the poll model I'd like to display:

public class PollAnswer
{
    public int Percent { get; set; }
    public string Answer { get; set; }

    public string AnswerPercentage
    {
        get { return string.Format("{0} ({1}%)", Answer, Percent); }
    }
}

public class PollModel
{
    public List Answers { get; set; }
    public FormContainerBlock PollBlock { get; set; }

    public bool ShowAnswers
    {
        get { return Answers != null && Answers.Any(); }
    }

    public bool ShowPoll
    {
        get { return PollBlock != null; }
    }
}

This is the code to get the answers, it gives some clues on the following:

• How to get ChoiceElementBlock items from the form elements
• How to get result form results
• How to check if logged in user as voted already
• How to get the actual answers in percentages

public static PollModel GetPoll(FormContainerBlock form)
{
    if (form == null) return new PollModel();

    var choices = (from filteredItem in form.ElementsArea.FilteredItems
                   let selectItem = filteredItem.GetContent() as ChoiceElementBlock
                   where selectItem != null
                   select selectItem).FirstOrDefault();

    if (choices == null) return new PollModel();

    var formDataRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance();

    var data = formDataRepository.GetSubmissionData(
        new FormIdentity((form as IContent).ContentGuid, (form as ILocalizable).Language.Name),
        (form as IChangeTrackable).Created,
        DateTime.MaxValue).ToList();

    var currentUserName = PrincipalInfo.Current.Name;
    // if the poll is for logged in users, we could check if the user already voted
    // I left this for the sake of example (there are several built-in columns in EPiServer.Forms.Constants)
    var voted = (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(currentUserName) &&
        data.Any(x => x.Data[EPiServer.Forms.Constants.SYSTEMCOLUMN_SubmitUser].ToString().Equals(currentUserName)));

    var answers = (from item in choices.Items
                   let resultItem = data.Where(cd => (string)cd.Data[choices.FormElement.ElementName] == item.Value).ToList()
                   select new PollAnswer
                   {
                       Answer = item.Caption,
                       Percent = resultItem.Any() ? resultItem.Count() * 100 / data.Count : 0,
                   }).ToList();


    var viewModel = new PollModel
    {
        Answers = answers,
        PollBlock = form
    };

    return viewModel;
}

With some nice CSS, the poll is ready! Then, you might fine tune it with some buttons that toggle between the form and the answers, but I wanted to keep this short and simple.