The feature to add custom text/explanation under the survey form has been added in a new version. It can be downloaded from the SurveyUP homepage.

We hope this feature will be useful to make your surveys more handy and understandable.

There is a problem: where is store a collection of these properties because, unfortunately, SPView class has not a remarkable Properties or AllProperties.
This problem can be resolved with two closed methods of SPView class: SetInnerXmlForNode and GetInnerXmlForNode.
A class that allows to call these closed methods can be realized as follows:

public static class ViewExtensions
{

return (string)getInnerXmlForNode.Invoke(view, new object[] { nodeName });
}
}

Everything is simple then. We call SetInnerXmlForNode to save the property and we call GetInnerXmlForNode to get its value:

//Somehow initialize a object of SPView class
SPView view = …;

// Get the value of property
string myPropertyValue = view.GetInnerXmlForNode(“MyPropertyName”);

Safety of these methods usage must be checked and re-checked, however the first experience shows that it’s OK.

The code:

SPList taskList = web.Lists["hugeTasksList"];
SPQuery query = new SPQuery();
query.ViewFields = ““;
DataTable table = taskList.GetItems(query).GetDataTable();
Console.WriteLine(“count:{0};”, table.Rows.Count);

Note, there is not a reason for pleasure, because this method is processed for a long time (up to 3 minutes for 40000 entries). However we get the items number anyway. Moreover, the data is saved in cache and the next queries are processed so faster.
We think if use our own cache for the results, it’s possible to realize paging during results view.

The explanation: to count the items number in query result, we need to get back list of selected items and count their number only after it. CAML-query doesn’t have any analogue as sql-query like COUNT(*).
However, the number of CAML-query results in SharePoint is equal 20000 by default. The conclusion is obvious – it is not convenience to operate with huge lists in SharePoint.

Well, there are other ways, but they don’t specify our requirements: How to: Achieve Count(*) on a large SharePoint list.

Let’s suppose we need to return back 50 entries, from the entry #100. The code for this case:

SPList taskList = web.Lists["mytasks"];
SPQuery query = new SPQuery();
query.ListItemCollectionPosition = new SPListItemCollectionPosition(“Paged=TRUE&p_ID=100″);
query.RowLimit = 50;
SPListItemCollection items = taskList.GetItems(query);

To know there are any other entries in query result, we have a criteria – non-null value for ‘items.ListItemCollectionPosition’ field. BTW, with cyclic selection of the elements, the value for this field can be passed in ‘query.ListItemCollectionPosition’.

However, there is a problem. We didn’t find yet a way to get common number of elements without elements’ list. It means we can view query’s data page by page, but we can’t know the total number of entries.

The most probably, string expression, passed in the constructor like ‘SPListItemCollectionPosition’, can be more complicated, but it is a subject for additional research.

Hope it will be useful and will assit you to start work with SurveyUP without any problems.

The client want to display event schedule in QR-code fomat – participants visited company portal and easily added the schedule in your cell phones. This experience gave us an idea to develop such web-part.

QRCodeUP for SharePoint allows you to display textual information in QR-code picture. It is very convenient for shedules, huge links, contact information and much more.

We hope you find this tool useful for your web-site too

We released our second solution for SharePoint – ListPermissionsUP!
This solution extends permissions management capabilities in SharePoint lists, allows to provide ‘read-only’ mode and hide columns (and appropriate item form fileds) for users and user groups.

This well-known issues appear especially when some kinds of confidential information (for example – financial data) are presented on the site. We faced with shuch issues many times when provide custom SharePoint solutions to our clients. For example there is a list with customer’s details. Sales team have to see contact information, but these data can not be shown to other departments by the security reasons.

Now this issue can be resolved in 2 minutes with ListPermissionUP – just hide “Email”, “Address” and “Phone” columns from all users, exept ‘Sales team’ group. It’s fast and convenient.
We developed solution which works both with Microsoft SahrePoint 2007 and 2010.

Now the homepage content is not huge, but ‘How to’ section, product documentation and demo will be added as soon as possible.

We would like to answer any your questions regarding ListPermissionsUP for SharePoint, please don’t hesitate leave them right here

You can do it easily now on your SharePoint portal with SurveyUP!

Native survey in SharePoint does not allow to realize it, but SurveyUP 1.6 version, released at October 2010 allows you to use branching/paging feature without any issues.

Download the trial and make sure.

You need to create a sales tool on SharePoint that shows certain data, based on the responses from the sales representatives. They will use it as a reference, so it should be ongoing process.

You used the SharePoint Survey list for this purpose. It works, except for when you are trying re-taking it, you get an error that says you are not allowed to respond again to this survey.

Is there a setting that will allow repeated taking of the survey?

If not, is there a web part that will give user multiple option questions and redirect to the right pages based on the response?

Tip:

If you go into the Settings options of the survey there is a checkbox that allows you to select whether users can respond once or multiple times. Just turn it off.

Or use SurveyUP web part which has not this feature only, but many ways for survey customization and improvement