[phpesp-dev] some ideas (fwd)

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

Thanks for the ideas. I am forwarding them to the devel
list. -James

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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:17:22 +1100 (EST)
From: Brendan Lloyd <bl...@uo...>
To: jf...@ac...
Subject: PHPESP: some ideas

Hi James,

a few ideas to ponder for future phpesp releases:

* Better separation of survey logic and rendition: it would be nice, for
  example, to be able to edit the order of fields in a survey, their label
  (as viewed by the user), etc even after it has been made active. I can't
  think why editing the rendition (ie the survey appearance) should be
  constrained to the testing and editing modes.

* the ability to create questions whose answers have multiple form elements
  associated with them. For example:

  Q: How often do you visit?
  A: { Once | Twice | Three times or more } & { Daily | Weekly | Monthly }

  Q: Time of last visit?
  A: { 8:00-8:59 | 9:00 - 9:59 | etc } & { A.M. | P.M. }

  (with each {} grouping as a separate popup box)

* For any popup menu or radio button which is (part of) a required field, a
  default option should already be selected. Currently, pop-up menus display
  blank by default and radio buttons are unchecked.

Warm regards,
Brendan