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[phpesp-dev] routings

[Sipke O. <S.O...@ni...>]

Hello Steve and others,

While I'm working through my phpESP inbox I found the message from Steve on
skipping questions. I would like to comment on that. This skipping questions
is a very interesting thing, but by using the next button, I don't think it
will be as complete as it could be.

I work at a market research company and we use very complicated 'routings'
as we call them. We are for example able to get data from our database to
give respondents a customized questionnaire. So for example if we already
know that the respondent is a boy, we will refer to him as a he and not a
she, we will not ask him questions about the girl department of a store but
rather about the boy department. 

We also use multiple routings in the questionnaire, like a question with
three answer options refering to three possible follow up questions. If this
would be possible to implement it would be great. 

As my programming abilities are very small, I understand that you have your
own priorities. But this is a feature that would make scientifical and
comercial use of the software a lot easier. If there is a way that I can
help you guys with anything please let me know.

Sipke

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Sipke Overbeeke
Project Manager
NIPO the market research institute
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Re: [phpesp-dev] routings

[Steve M. <st...@is...>]

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| is a very interesting thing, but by using the next button, I don't
think it
| will be as complete as it could be.

it is important to note that skipping can only be done (unless
significant, complicated javascript is used) on a page-by-page basis.
the easiest way to skip from question-to-question is to put one question
~ on each page. (sounds lame, but how else are you gonna do it?)


| know that the respondent is a boy, we will refer to him as a he and not a
| she, we will not ask him questions about the girl department of a
store but
| rather about the boy department.

this is referred to as "piping".. in that the answer to a previous
question is used later in the survey, either in the text of the question
or in the text of an answer.
i plan on implementing that as well. it should really not be that hard,
as long as the "pipe-able" responses are well-defined (ie. it might be
hard to pipe something from an !other field, but im not sure).


| We also use multiple routings in the questionnaire, like a question with
| three answer options refering to three possible follow up questions.
If this
| would be possible to implement it would be great.

this can be done with skipping:
if questionA returns X, goto questionM
if questionA returns Y, goto questionN
if questionA returns Z, goto questionO

perhaps "else goto next question" will be implied, as well.
(note: this is all speculation so far. havent implemented this yet)


| As my programming abilities are very small, I understand that you have
your
| own priorities. But this is a feature that would make scientifical and
| comercial use of the software a lot easier. If there is a way that I can
| help you guys with anything please let me know.

what does scientifical mean? ;)  (jk)


just an update, i have devised a way to represent skips as modified page
breaks, without modifying the SQL schema. it seems to be working pretty
well so far. ill keep the list updated if there is significant interest.




- -stevem

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