[phpesp-dev] Bulk Upload and new question type

[Matthew G. <gr...@mu...>]

Bulk uploading of Respondent and Designer accounts is now is CVS.  Tab
delimited data files are all that it currently accepts, but stubs are
in place for CSV and XML.  Feel free to chime in and implement them :-)

I would also like to propose a new question type...  

With the surveys we are building here, we need a way to integrate data
from outside sources.  For example: several surveys need a dropdown
with a long list of Faculty.  This is cumbersome to try and maintain
by hand.

So, what I'd like to implement is a RPC question type.  It
could be XML-RPC, SOAP or just a simple URL that would return
name/value pairs that could be used to render a dropdown box.
In the survey edit screens, the info. required to access the RPC could
be filled in by the user using the current "Possible Answer(s)" fields.

What do you guys think? 


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