[Bodington-developers] Re: Questionnaire tool

[Alistair Y. <ali...@sm...>]

thanks Paul, that just made my life not worth living!

If only it would use ordinal in the same way that a user uses the 
questionnaire, i.e. question 8 is 8, rather than 800 or, well, who 
knows what else.

Alistair


On 10 May 2005, at 10:09, Paul Davis wrote:

> Alistair
>> From a user's perspective the ordinal should be the order that 
>> questions are
> sorted in.  Generally, by default, the first question is 100, second 
> 200
> etc.  However if you get to the ninth question and realise this would 
> be
> better after question 7 rather than Q8 you can number it 701 (or 
> anything
> 701 to 799 would work!)  When I number something with a single digit it
> appears at the top of the list, rather than lower down as you state.  
> Is
> there some extra code in there not showing - try deleting all of the 
> number
> and re-inserting 8 (or did you want 800?)
>
> On Internet Explorer it's possible to right-click in the summary 
> frame, view
> frame in own window and save that as a separate HTML.  Same 
> functionality in
> Firefox.
>
> Ed Hart had an Excel macro which went into the results and pulled them 
> all
> out into a graphical format in Excel spreadsheet using a macro.  An 
> upgrade
> to the system broke this, but if anyone is interested I can hunt for 
> the
> relevant info and forward on.
>
> Paul
>
> Paul Davis
> 01865 283414
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bod...@li...
> [mailto:bod...@li...] On Behalf Of
> Alistair Young
> Sent: 10 May 2005 09:51
> To: 'Bodington Developers'
> Subject: [Bodington-developers] Questionnaire tool
>
> I'm working on a tool that displays questionnaire results as html pages
> and am pulling me hair oot!
>
> in the questionnaire_questions table there's an "ordinal" field, which
> seems to be related to the question number, i.e. ordinal=100 means
> question number 1.
> However, Question 8 in the questionnaire shows as ordinal="701" and
> Question 9 shows as ordinal="8".
>
> Is there any relation between ordinal and question number or is it pure
> chance? Or does ordinal allow for sub-questions, such as 7a, 7b etc? if
> so, why would 7a show as Question 8? or is that a human fault (I didn't
> design the questionnaire)
>
> ta,
>
> Alistair
>
>
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