Re: [phpesp-dev] Seeking advice on enhancement: modifying submitted surveys

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

Quoting Keith Swartz <ph...@on...>:

> I've been asked by my management to add a feature to our internal
> implementation of phpESP that would allow survey respondents to modify
> their responses at any time /after/ they have submitted their survey.

This is outside my use case, so I've never really looked into it, but  
I think phpesp was originally designed to not support this; the  
original code seems to have been rooted in public surveys, to which  
this doesn't apply.


> I've been looking over the code, and it seems like for private surveys,
> where /multiple responses/ are allowed, this is going to be quite a
> challenge.

To say the least.  How does the user decide b/w which previous  
response he wants to resubmit... other than scrolling through them and  
looking at them or maybe by date submitted?


> From only a cursory review, the authentication mechanism and
> the survey handler (and handler-prefix) would have to undergo some big
> changes, which would be hard to carry forward to new releases.

Dashboard would have to change, if you're using that to list surveys.


> Before I start messing around with this, am I overlooking some easy or
> more obvious way to achieve this goal?

What is the root goal?  Or, rather, why allow people to change their  
previous responses... instead of simply taking a new (duplicate) survey?


bishop

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