[Bodington-developers] RE: Questionnaire tool

[Paul D. <pau...@co...>]

Problem then being that if you want to change the numbering it's a hell of a
job -  in this instance you'd have to go to question 8, make it question 9,
then go to question 9 and make it question 8.  The current method allows for
questions to be moved to be more logical in order simply by changing the
ordinal.   The system shows the numbering required.  
If we are looking at wish lists, then randomising MCQs is one thing we get
asked for - this probably ties in the same thread here
Paul

Paul Davis
01865 283414



-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...] 
Sent: 10 May 2005 10:22
To: Paul Davis
Cc: 'Bodington Developers'
Subject: Re: Questionnaire tool

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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