Resource Page DescriptionSharePoint Quick Surveys is a web part and associated graphics handlers that allows users to quickly fill in a survey from a site page and see attractive graphical results in place. The idea of course is to push important survey questions to the user’s home page- perhaps in the right hand bar- rather than making them go to the survey list page to submit a response.
The control can be hosted on any web part page and can accept responses for any survey within the same site. The first time the user sees the web part they will be prompted to fill in their responses to the survey. Once they have done this the display will change to show the results in a series of graphics. All questions in the survey will be displayed, so it is probably a good idea to keep the survey short if you want to place it on the home page of your site.
If the survey allows multiple responses then a link will be displayed along with the results which allows the user to submit further responses. Otherwise they will only be allowed to post one response.
Configuration of the web part is simple too. Aside from the usual properties there are two new sections allowing selection of a survey list and configuration of the survey results display.
The control can display it’s results graphs horizontally or vertically. You should set this property depending on what what part zone is being used. Vertical works best on the side bar whilst horizontal is better in other zones. You can also select whether bar charts or pie charts are used for displaying the results of questions (except for grid choice questions which always use bar charts due to their more complex nature).
Read more here:
http://darrenjohnstone.net/2008/02/17/sharepoint-quick-surveys