Re: [phpesp-dev] Support visual formatting of "follow-up" survey questions

[Matthew G. <mat...@gm...>]

It won't look like an essay question and may not be what you want but
!other does something like this.  Maybe you could expand that?

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 07:26 -0500, Bishop Bettini wrote:
> Hi Franky,
> 
> In my case, it's visual.  Showing the follow-up question isn't  
> "conditional" on the previous answer, but rather allows "expansion" on  
> the previous answer.
> 
> Like, suppose you have these two question:
> 
> Please tell us how satisfied you were with our service:
> ( ) Very satisfied
> ( ) About usual
> ( ) Very dissatisfied
> 
> Please list any particular experiences you had that led you to that response:
> /----------------------\
> |                      |
> |                      |
> \----------------------/
> 
> 
> 
> The second question doesn't stand on its own -- it's answer is only  
> meaningful in light of the first answer.  Similarly, the choice made  
> for the first answer doesn't drive whether to show the second  
> question: you always show it, but you want to visually indicate that  
> the essay box question "follows up" to the radio question.
> 
> 
> Thoughts?
> bishop
> 
> 
> Quoting Franky Van Liedekerke <lie...@te...>:
> 
> > Hi Bishop,
> >
> > doesn't conditions already foresee such a functionality (show a question
> > when the answer to a previous question meets some conditions)? Or is this
> > only a visual thing?
> >
> > Franky
> >
> > On 1/25/08, Bishop Bettini <ph...@id...> wrote:
> >>
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I've made the following modification to my local branch, but I didn't
> >> know if it was something the community wanted.  If so, I'll commit to
> >> trunk.  There's an example screen-shot attached.
> >>
> >> Issue 940:
> >> In some scenarios, one question follows up another. For example, you
> >> might ask to rate your experience with a particular subject, then
> >> provide an open-ended justification for that rating.  These aren't
> >> logically "next" questions, and should not therefore be numbered as
> >> such.  They should also be visually "tied" the previous question, so
> >> as to form a mental association between the two.  Finally, these
> >> aren't new question types, but a relationship between questions.
> >>
> >> Implement this by name sequencing.  If this question name begins with
> >> exactly the same name as the previous question, it's a follow-up.  For
> >> example "q1" followed by a "q1_comments" question will key that
> >> "q1_comments" is a follow-up.  There are, however, still two separate
> >> questions in the database.  We are simply indicating the association
> >> by the question names.
> >>
> >> bishop
> >>
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