As I was working on some phpESP code today, I thought of a
simple way to implement question templates. It would be fairly
trivial. All that we need to do is to define a "magic survey
number" (or name), and any question in that magic survey would
be a template. The gui could be pretty simple: On the standard
question tab there could be a 'add this as a template' feature
that would copy the current question to the magic survey.
There could also be a drop-down or pop-up for loading a template
to use. We could also add a template editor, that would pretty
much just be the question tab w/o the other tabs.
The magic survey id would have the status set to deleted to keep
it from showing up anywhere else, and perhaps have a new bit set
to mark it as magic. (This magic bit would keep it from showing
up on the purge page, and any future archive manager.)
Any comments? Anyone want to code this up? I may code it at
some point, but I just wanted to share my thought so someone
else might remember it as so as it vanishes from my head.
Take it easy,
-James
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