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10 years 3 weeks ago #140918 by ttenbergen
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When assigning participants to a survey, there is a screen where you pick the survey from a dropdown. The sort order of the dropdown _may_ be the age of the survey, not sure. Usually new surveys end up on the bottom of the dropdown, so a lot of scrolling is required to get to a survey you just made, especially if you have a lot of surveys (we have >650). It would be nice to be able to filter that dropdown, but that would be a big-ish change. Could it be sorted the opposite way instead? With newest first? Presumably most users are more likely to be working with newer than older surveys?
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10 years 3 weeks ago #140924 by fvanderstarre
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Surveys are sorted on survey id (this may not really be of any help but just to let you know ....).
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10 years 3 weeks ago #140931 by Joffm
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Hi, ttenbergen,

just to add something to fvanderstarre's reply.

After creating a survey you can copy it.
Here you can enter a specific SurveyID.
This way you have an instrument to sort your surveys the way you like.

Best regards
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10 years 2 weeks ago #141173 by ttenbergen
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Hi Joffm, that would work for me alone. We have about 20 survey coordinators, and I have doubts we could come of with a fool proof human-centered process to generate the next lower unused number. Call me a pessimist. :unsure:
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10 years 2 weeks ago #141188 by holch
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If you have 20 survey coordinators you are running quite some operation on Limesurvey, I guess. Maybe you can sponsor a feature that allows to sort surveys better, maybe even put surveys in different categories/folders...
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10 years 2 weeks ago #141192 by ttenbergen
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Yes, we are running about 1000 surveys a year with quite a few participants. I finally got approval to at least move to comfortupdate so we are slightly supporting the program now. I don't think management would be keen on me spending more of their money, though, free is why we went with LimeSurvey.
Actually, sorting isn't a problem for us in the survey screen because we use a naming convention for them that takes care of that, but the dropdown when copying a survey is not sortable.
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10 years 2 weeks ago - 10 years 2 weeks ago #141193 by holch
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I understand the problem. But it is very short sighted from management. But you are fighting the same fight as many.

But with 1000 surveys a year you would spend quite a few bucks on any other tool. They should get that.

Maybe you can argue with the time spent additionally by each survey coordinator. ;-)
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Last edit: 10 years 2 weeks ago by holch.
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10 years 2 weeks ago #141213 by tpartner
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ttenbergen, what LimeSurvey version?
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10 years 2 weeks ago #141234 by ttenbergen
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Version 2.50.1+160823, hoping to upgrade to newest version as soon as a ComfortUpdate problem is fixed.
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10 years 2 weeks ago #141235 by ttenbergen
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Limesurvey is already the work-around for the system they are supposed to be using, which is purpose-made and has worse functionality. :-) We are actually using LS as an attendance tracking system, exporting the whole DB annually and shipping it through another program for reporting.
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10 years 2 weeks ago #141245 by tpartner
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In LS version 2.5, you can sort the "Add participants to survey" list as follows...

1) Create your own admin template with a custom.js file as described in this post - www.limesurvey.org/forum/can-i-do-this-w...in-admin-page#137666

2) Add this to your new custom.js file:

Code:
$(document).ready(function(){ // Sort "Add participants to survey" select element if($('#client-script-return-msg select#survey_id').length > 0) { var surveyList = $('#client-script-return-msg select#survey_id'); var surveyOptions = $('option', surveyList); var selectedOption = $(surveyList).val(); // Case insensitive sort /* surveyOptions.sort(function(a,b) { if (a.text.toLowerCase() > b.text.toLowerCase()) return 1; if (a.text.toLowerCase() < b.text.toLowerCase()) return -1; return 0 }); */ // Case sensitive sort surveyOptions.sort(function(a,b) { if (a.text > b.text) return 1; if (a.text < b.text) return -1; return 0 }); $(surveyList).empty().append(surveyOptions); $(surveyList).val(selectedOption); } });
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10 years 2 weeks ago #141249 by ttenbergen
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I had no idea that the admin template could do anything beyond "looks", but I suppose this is kind of looks.

If I make this change, would it stick with version upgrades, especially ComfortUpdate? DenisChenu walked me through doing some changes in the main code a long time ago, but I abandoned the change eventually because I had to re-do with each upgrade, but if a change in template sticks that would be great!
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10 years 2 weeks ago #141250 by tpartner
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Custom templates are not over-written when upgrading as long as they reside in the /upload/admintheme/ directory.
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