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

[Bishop B. <ph...@id...>]

I started with !other (yes, changing its label with !other=3DFoobarbaz), =20
but that wasn't what I needed ... unless I was mis-using it.

As I understand it, !other allows you to add in write-in responses =20
**to a list of predetermined choices**.  I don't want the respondent =20
to write in another choice, I want them to explain their choice.  So, =20
in my case, I want to give them a list of say 5 options.  I want to =20
require them to choose from that list.  Then, I want to give them the =20
option of explaining their choice in greater detail.  That explanation =20
is a follow-up to the first question, not a question that stands alone =20
of its own merit.

Thoughts?
bishop


Quoting Matthew Gregg <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 =20
>>  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 questio=
n
>> > when the answer to a previous question meets some conditions)? Or is th=
is
>> > 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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