[phpesp-dev] [ phpesp-Feature Requests-560585 ] Rate scale flexibility

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Feature Requests item #560585, was opened at 2002-05-25 17:20
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Category: survey format
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Rate scale flexibility

Initial Comment:
the "rate" scale is static with numbers ranging from 1
to n. I would like that to be assignable so I can have
text, for instance. Instead of a scale of "1 -2 -3 - 4
- 5 - N/A", I want to be able to implement a scale
like: "Great - OK - Opinion Free - Not OK - Sucks -
N/A" or anything else (and blank values, especially for
interim points on the scale, would be acceptable). 

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>Comment By: James Flemer (jimmerman)
Date: 2002-07-11 10:41

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Yes, logart. That is the problem. One idea is to change the
storage model for the surveys from SQL to XML, which would
make this type of feature possible.

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Comment By: Stephen Lawrence (logart)
Date: 2002-07-11 10:24

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The tough part about doing this is that you would have to
capture both the reponse text value, along with the
numerical value.

Right now, the response_rank table is set up  with all INT
datatypes. There would have to be anther field added to that
table of type VARCHAR or something that would contain the
textual meaning of the answer. You need to capture the text
along with the number in case you change the text values of
the ratings later on. You would then skew the data because,
for example, "1" used to mean good but now "1" is bad. If
you don't save the "good" or "bad" along with each record,
you would never know the numbers represent.

right?

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