#1 mod_survey

[Anonymous]

Hiya,

Are there any plans wrt working together with mod_survey? It
seems that the 2 projects could benefit from each other.
mod_survey is great for web surveys but lacks alternative clients.
The main use might be a quick win for the web part of your project
while gaining a well-establish xml questionnaire format...

Just a thought.

Otherwise, t it would be nice to have an xsl-transformation
between either questionnaire schema,

Looking forward to the progress of your project.

Kind regards,
Steve

[dirkd]

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Hi,

>Are there any plans wrt working together with mod_survey?
Do you mean
http://gathering.itm.mh.se/modsurvey/index.php?

Until September of this year, this is a students project in
which we (the developers) get a grade. For this reason, it
would be a bit difficult to include work from others in the
project. After the university project is finished, there should
be no problem to cooperate, if it makes sense.

>It seems that the 2 projects could benefit from each other.
>mod_survey is great for web surveys but lacks alternative
>clients. The main use might be a quick win for the web part
>of your project while gaining a well-establish xml
>questionnaire format...

One of the main features of digiquest is the dynamic way in
which the questions are shown, based on conditions. I had a
quick look on the project and i didnt noticed any conditions.

>Otherwise, t it would be nice to have an xsl-transformation
>between either questionnaire schema,
For the above reasons and the lack of xsl knowledge that
thing would be placed on the end of our todo list, but the
idea sound nice.

>Looking forward to the progress of your project.
Thank you for your interest.

If you have further suggestions, information or questions,
please reply or use the mailinglist or send an email.

BTW, are you involved in the developement of mod_survey?

Dirk

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Dirk,

I'm impressed by the swift response.
To answer your question wrt mod_survey:
Yes, you found the right project.
Yes, you are right it doesn't currently support dynamic questions
although it looks as if that's part of the upcoming 3.2 release(I
think they call it branching).
No, I'm not involved in the development of it.

The reason why I'm interested in your project is that
I'm looking for some utilities that allow me to offer questionnaires
through a variety of channels, eg web, PDA or a stand-alone client
to be able to gather customer feedback.
So far the only one that I found was mod_survey which offers
some nice features except that it lacks alternative clients.
However, I found their schema quite flexible and
feature-rich(despite the fact that it doesn't yet include dynamic
questions) and thought about writing a stand-alone Swing
Java-client that would effectively present the questions similar to a
web page and capture the data that way for later ingestion into a
database.
That's when I stumbled across your project and thought that there
was some overlap that might be worth exploring.

I understand that as it is a student project which you'll get marked
on that that can happen just yet but maybe there is room for
collaboration later.

Good luck and I make sure that I'll give your code a whirl soon.

Kind regards,
Steve

P.S.: I might be able (time permitting) to contribute the
xsl-transformation at least one way (mod_survey -> your schema).
The other way will obviously not work as you pointed out - at least
not until they support dynamic questions as well.

[dirkd]

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Hi,

>The reason why I'm interested in your project is
>...
>for later ingestion into a database.

Thats exactly what we're aiming to. One questionary
(questionnaire), many platforms and results collected in one
place. It may be a quite long way, but we started to walk. ;-)

>I might be able (time permitting) to contribute the
>xsl-transformation at least one way (mod_survey -> your
>schema).
Although our schema will experience heavy changes in the
future (consolidation, new questiontypes, new way conditions
are defined) we would really appreciate any contributions.

If you like, you can contact us (digiquest@tzi.de) or me
(dirkd@users.sourceforge.net) by mail.

For further discussion you may use the user mailinglist (see
the hompage, topic "contact").

Thanks for your interest, Dirk