Re: [limesurvey-developers] Observations / Features

[Marcel M. (Limesurvey) <mar...@li...>]

Hi Dewey,

the errors are most probably no Limesurvey bugs but result from some 
configuration problems of your server. Please open a new thread in the 
forum and I'll try to help you. Give as much information as possible 
(PHP/MySQL/Limesurvey/Server Version).

About your planned improvements. Maybe you can open a new ticket for 
each problem at our bugtracker at bugs.limesurvey.org within the 
"Development LS1" section. We can then discuss your approaches with 
other developers.
1.-3. sounda very useful
4. might get quite tricky
5. This is a mixture of already existing question types. We try to not 
create new question types for each of such combinations. Furthermore 
creating a new question type is lots (!) of work.
7. That's something we are also thinking about. Check 
http://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=3440 and leave your comments.
8. Check setting $previewrequireauth in config-defaults.php/manual.
9. Not sure what you are up to. The default template should never be 
changed, we always recommend to customize a copy of it. Please elaborate.

Best regards,
Mazi

1. Improve validation customizability.
2. Allow for default values for each type of question.
3. Allow for default values on label sets (that could be overridden by the question).
4. Allow question group-specific templating.
5. Numeric/Text + dropdown dual list arrays and standard questions (i.e. allow for questions like Please enter the amount of time you spend commuting for work each day: quantity (numeric) unit (minutes, hours as dropdown)).
7. Better control of individual item appearance by maybe specifying a CSS class for the question as an attribute
8. Allow for an anonymous testing mode where users could test without logging in or a form being activated
9. Allow the default template to be changed in the UI without having to do it by copying files



Dewey Vozel schrieb:
> Here is a brief list of items that I've noticed in the week I've been using LimeSurvey. Some of these items are probably configuration problems on my part (like emails not being sent)... but I'm including them all so I can use the list as a reference as well. I'll probably detail what I mean by each improvement later today if I have time.
>
> Errors:
> 1. When I copy a question, it doesn't bring the answers over to the new question.
> 2. When I export a question, I look in the file that exports and the answers are not included... so when I import the answers have to be retyped.
> 3. I got error messages when trying to create groups in the UI. The groups never show up in the UI but are in the database. When I delete them from the database and recreate them in the database manually, they show up.
> 4. I get error messages when creating users and trying to edit permissions.
> 5. Emails are not being sent successfully.
> 6. Running reports generates several hundred PHP notices: "PHP Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in C:\Surveys\classes\pchart\pchart\pData.class on line 127" The same message is repeated for offset 1 and then the two messages are repeated together for 1.5 pages of printed text (no line breaks).
>
> Improvements:
> 1. Improve validation customizability.
> 2. Allow for default values for each type of question.
> 3. Allow for default values on label sets (that could be overridden by the question).
> 4. Allow question group-specific templating.
> 5. Numeric/Text + dropdown dual list arrays and standard questions (i.e. allow for questions like Please enter the amount of time you spend commuting for work each day: quantity (numeric) unit (minutes, hours as dropdown)).
> 7. Better control of individual item appearance by maybe specifying a CSS class for the question as an attribute
> 8. Allow for an anonymous testing mode where users could test without logging in or a form being activated
> 9. Allow the default template to be changed in the UI without having to do it by copying files
>
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