SplatDev.Umbraco.Plugins.QuickPoll 2.4.2

UmbracoCms.Plugins.QuickPoll

A lightweight quick poll plugin for Umbraco 13 and Umbraco 17.

Features

• Create single-question polls with multiple options
• Active/inactive poll management with optional expiry
• One vote per IP address (enforced at DB level)
• Real-time vote counts and percentage results
• Results displayed as visual percentage bars in the view component
• U17 backoffice dashboard (Lit 3 web component)
• U13 backoffice dashboard (AngularJS)
• Razor view component for embedding polls in Umbraco templates
• EF Core with SQL Server (schema: quickpoll)

Targets

API Endpoints

Usage in Templates

@* Show active poll *@
@await Component.InvokeAsync("QuickPoll")

@* Show specific poll *@
@await Component.InvokeAsync("QuickPoll", new { pollId = 1 })

@* Or the one chosen on this page with the Poll property editor: *@
@await Component.InvokeAsync("QuickPoll", new { pollId = Model.Value<int>("poll") })

Building the Client

cd client
npm install
npm run build

Database Schema

Tables in the quickpoll schema:

• Polls - Poll definitions
• PollOptions - Answer options with vote counts
• PollVotes - Individual vote records (unique index on PollId + VoterIp)

Changelog

2.4.2 — 2026-08-24

Removes a dashboard screenshot that showed an error toast. It was captured against a site where this plugin's API was unreachable, so it advertised a broken dashboard. No screenshot is better than a misleading one; a replacement will be taken against a working install.

2.4.1 — 2026-08-24

Package metadata only: the listing now carries an icon and search tags, and the project and repository links point at the organisation that actually hosts this code. No code changes.

2.4.0 — 2026-08-23

The Razor view behind @await Component.InvokeAsync(...) is now compiled into the package. It was previously carried as a loose file that nothing packed, so the component threw "view not found" on every install and the front-end usage shown in this README could not have worked.

The view also still referenced the package's pre-rename namespace, so it would not have compiled even had it shipped. That is fixed, and the view is now built with the project — a broken view fails the build instead of failing a visitor's request.

2.3.0 — 2026-08-23

• A content editor can choose which poll a page shows. The view component takes a numeric id, so until now putting a poll on a page meant knowing that id and writing it into a template by hand — there was no way to pick one.

2.2.3 — 2026-08-22

• Polls can be listed and created again. Both endpoints returned 500 with "a possible object cycle was detected": the queries load each poll's options, every option carries a reference back to its poll, and the serializer looped. Creating a poll saved it and then failed on the way back, so a single poll was enough to break the dashboard for good.
• This never showed on a fresh install — a site with no polls serialized fine — so the plugin appeared healthy right up to the moment anyone used it.
• The API now returns a plain shape with the options and their vote counts, rather than the database entities.
• A request body that cannot be read is answered with 400 and a reason, instead of a 500 from a null reference.

2.2.2 — 2026-08-21

• Dashboard now sends the backoffice token with its API calls. On Umbraco 17 those calls were arriving unauthenticated and coming back 401, which the dashboard rendered as an empty state rather than an error.
• A failed request now raises a notification instead of leaving the dashboard looking like there is simply no data.
• The plugin's tables are created on startup. They were never created before, so anything touching them failed on a fresh install.
• Runs on SQLite as well as SQL Server. It previously assumed SQL Server and failed with "Keyword not supported: 'cache'" on the database Umbraco's installer offers by default.