Re: [phpesp-general] back button and users/groups?

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

Chris,

I'm not exactly sure if I follow, but if you intend for all 600 people 
to login as "person", I don't think phpESP will do what you expect.  You 
will end up with 1 result (the last one entered).  What are you trying 
to achieve?  I think the best solution (guessing your needs) would be to 
make a public survey, but restrict access via Apache (htaccess).

As far as back/forward, each user has one response in an authenticated 
survey, and back/forward will load results from that one response.  So 
yes, using back/forward with the scenario you describe will allow one 
person to see another's responses (and overwrite them).

In short, do not give multiple people the same username/password!
-James

Christopher Kolar wrote:
> Hello everyone.  I was wondering if someone could let me know a bit more 
> about how the back/forward feature works in relation to user accounts 
> and groups.  Specifically, I have a survey that is private and a groups 
> of people who I want to have fill it out.  I set up a respondent account 
> named "person" and added it to group "group" (those are made up of 
> course).  I went to the access page and said that the survey is private 
> and that I will accept 600 responses from group "group."
> 
> I was wondering if the enabling of the back button would be a problem 
> given that the login is being shared by a large number of respondents.  
> If the back functionality stored locally, so that multiple people would 
> all see their own data, or is it stored centrally in the db with the 
> associated login, so someone hitting back might see another person's 
> responses?  Unfortunately with the population we work with we cannot set 
> up individual login accounts, but I am hopeful that we will be able to 
> activate the back button for this group in the future.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> --chris