#62 add a comments box to each question

[winston ford]

Would like to add a comments box, just a textarea, for each
question. So regardless of the question format, the
respondent would be able to type in comments further
explaining or qualifying his or her answer.

When creating or editing a question, you currently have
options:

Length....Precision....Required?

maybe add an bool option after Required?.....Comments?

If Comments? dropdown was selected "yes", then question
would have a textarea titled "Comments" next to question.

Any ideas on how to implement appreciated. Whip-arse app
yall are building here.

thanks,
Winston

[Matthew Gregg]

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Have you looked at the !other option? That allows a comment
field for radio/checkbox question types.

[winston ford]

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Yes, we're using !other. Great feature, but does not accommodate
every question. Effectively, we need to accept comments on
every question, even, for instance, when someone chooses and
fills out the "other" option.

[winston ford]

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our quick fix was to hide the generated number through css and
use the 'field name' field to tie the comments box (essay) to the
relevant question. this also worked for multi-part questions which
the client wanted to show as the same question.

not elegant, but done. will report how it works. results are being
mapped to access for a custom generated report in word.

[Robsteranium]

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Winston

Could you please post the CSS that you used in this
workaround - I'd be really interested to see your solution
(however unelegant you find it!).

Thanks in advance

Robin

[bishop]

I have a one-off implementation for this in my own environment. I'm taking on this ticket to generalize this functionality.