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[phpesp-dev] Filters

[Creative M. <Cre...@Pu...>]

Hi,

How about adding a filter function to pagebreaks. I haven't involved myself to deeply yet to 
whether you can or cannot adress variable names to questions rather than just numbers, but I'll 
look into that later on. That would be first step I believe, when that's done you should be able 
to address a variable and a value to whether the page will be displayed or not.

eg. 
VARNAME = Q1
1. Do you own a Ford?
1. Yes
2. No

<PAGEBREAK>
*PAGE DISPLAY IF (Q1 = 1)
VARNAME = Q2
2. Do you like your Ford?

1. Yes
2. No

Is that the next step? I could think of a queryset for filters as the one above using the normal 
operators and then a querybuilder as an option to make it easy for certain users.

// Creative Minds

Re: [phpesp-dev] Filters

[randall e. <ra...@uc...>]

> eg.
> VARNAME = Q1
> 1. Do you own a Ford?
> 1. Yes
> 2. No
>
> <PAGEBREAK>
> *PAGE DISPLAY IF (Q1 = 1)
> VARNAME = Q2
> 2. Do you like your Ford?
>
> 1. Yes
> 2. No

with the [lame] windows survey creation software we currently use, these
features are called question piping and question skipping. the above example
would be a "skip", and a question pipe would be like this:

VARNAME = Q1
1. What type of car do you own?
1. Ford
2. Chevy
3. BMW
4. Don't Own A Car

<PAGEBREAK>
 *PAGE DISPLAY IF (Q1 != 4)
 VARNAME = Q2
 2. Do you like your ${car_name}?

 1. Yes
 2. No

these are two of the featres our survey center plans on implementing this
summer, but if others get started that'd be great.

 -randall
        - randall s. ehren       :// 805.893.5632
           systems administrator :// isber|survey|avss.ucsb.edu
            institute for social, behavioral, and economic research