You can use the Umbraco API within the button handler? Checkout the following wiki page for modifying and publishing a page via the API

http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/api-cheatsheet/modifying-document-values

Matt

ok i messed it up -

the usercontrol updates fine -

but i have a macro that pulls out the info from the properties on the pages - but it doesent update untill i publish ??

<xsl:template match="/">

<!-- The fun starts here -->
<xsl:variable name="voteNodes" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById(1363)/node[not(data[@alias = 'umbracoNaviHide'] = 1)]" />

<xsl:value-of select="sum($voteNodes/data[@alias = 'votes'])" /> har stemt totalt


</xsl:template>

in your user control, define a click handler (or some other handler when the user interacts) and just tell it to update the page?

public void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // Do your thing here...
 
    Document doc = new Document(Node.GetCurrent().Id);

    doc.getProperty("votes").Value = Convert.ToInt32(doc.getProperty("votes").Value) + 1;
    doc.Publish(User.GetUser(0));
    umbraco.library.PublishSingleNode(doc.Id);

}

Matt

urgh - im terrible at spelling out my problem :D

ok i am using this here package - http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/poll

this poll works as it is intended.

but unfortunately it diddent have a "toal number of votes"

i made a that macro there to pull out all votes from pages in the poll. and add them together. - which works

but for some reason it doesent update when the poll does? - the properties do get filled with new data when submit is hit - but the macro i made doesent collect new data

that is my problem

I am unable to get to the backend code of the poll  - hence i made the macro - which seemed to work - untill i noticed the macro diddent update on page refresh ?

Ahhh, ok, I don't know too much about the poll package. But I'd make sure you have all caching turned off on your macro. This should force your macro to re-render on every page load, therfore it should retreive fresh data.

Matt

hm ok where can i set the caching ?

Go to Developer > Macros > Your Macro and ensure, cache period is 0, and cache by page, and cache personalized are unchecked.

Matt

hmm unfortunately that diddent do anything :(

Hi Jan,

Hmmm, I'm not entirley sure then. Your best bet might be to request help in the packages support forum:

http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/poll/help-using-the-poll

Many thanks

Matt

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