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Eric Adler
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Aug 29, 2017

Create a Voting feature in a List?

Looking to create a list that alows for voting on an item.   With all of the new features I thought I'd see if anyone had tackled this before.   The goal is to essentially create a "Uservoice" fo...
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Fromelard's avatar
Fromelard
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Sorry but why do not use directly the Office 365 dedicated tool for that kind of usage:

That is the best option and probably for the future evolution.

The SP survey list will be less and less used and the Vote/star option into an SPList is really limited.

 

Fab

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Eric Adler
Steel Contributor
Jun 20, 2018
The challenge I see with this is a form is a one-time occurrence. I am looking for a list of items that can be added to and voted on over a longer period of time. Like User Voice.

Do see Forms being able to mimic User Voice? Maybe I am missing a feature.

I do think Forms could be part of the solution. It would be the voting part and the list would keep an aggregate of the data.
  • Fromelard's avatar
    Fromelard
    Steel Contributor
    Jun 26, 2018

    Dear Eric,

    after reflection, I can understand your point and the voting system implemented into uservoice is not so simple to reproduce into SPO.

    The Forms option will send a survey and the result will be only visible by the form creator, the other one can not see the vote yet given, and can not comment the idea

    The option could be to look the Blog site (giving the vote and comment option) with the contribution permission opened to all, the comments can be posted and the likes can be enable.

     

    The work will be on the idea display you have to order by "Likes" to show the first voted one.

     

    Could be a solution.

     

    Otherwise, look the cost to sign a contract with Uservoice as SaaS supplier :)

     

    Fab

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      Eric Adler
      Steel Contributor
      Jun 29, 2018

      I am going to use Flow to aggregate the response back to a list. Allowing the form to a vehicle to only vote once and provide the nice UI for voting, comments, etc...

      It seems to be coming together.

       

      I also have a model using PowerApps forms for SharePoint...but I am still a little slow on those features. Sure wish there was more documentation/resources around PowerApp forms for SharePoint. There is a lot of PowerApps but not enough focus on the SharePoint form side. If anyone has something I am missing please let me know (yes I will post in PowerApps community too)

       

      Thanks for your insights on this!

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