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

[Christopher K. <ck...@im...>]

Thanks James.  My way around this was to modify the access info for the 
survey and allow the respondent group that I created a max responses of 800 
-- which I figured would give me some slack for the 600 people who would be 
responding.  It is working pretty well.  Our problem was that the target 
group for this survey has a not insignificant amount of churn, and we do 
not have a support staff for technical issues, so we figured that it would 
be better to deal with a single login for everyone.  Any identifying 
information that we would need could then be solicited in the survey itself.

It is good to know about the forward/backward behavior though.  The main 
problem reported has been that they hit their browser back button to review 
answers and everything disappears.  I will just have to remember to tell 
them not to hit back in the instructions next time.

Cheers,

--chris


At 04:45 PM 4/27/2004, James E. Flemer wrote:

>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