This post refers to a plugin I cannot seem to find by Denis Chenu
forums.limesurvey.org/index.php/forum/de...elds-to-survey-admin

I also would like to add custom text fields to Admin and various parts of the survey,
I'm redesigning the CSS on the landing pages to incorporate different data.

Does the plugin still exist?
 

[url] gitlab.com/SondagesPro/SampleAndDemo/exampleSettings [/url]

Thanks however its probably not current, when I loaded it I got "Configuration file config.xml does not exist"

Try adding your own config.xml file to the exampleSettings plugin folder.
 

Thanks Tony

Tried that and got "The plugin could not be installed or updated: Could not parse config.xml file."
 I think its close though and the system does recognise the existence of the file, possibly only a minor change or two and it should be in business.

Attached is the zip file I am now using, Not being a dev or knowing this system myself I'm not keen to adjust this file myself.


 

Hi, there is a small error in the folder name.
The folder has to have the same name as the plugin php file.
So you only have to rename the folder to "exampleSettings", zip it to "exampleSettings.zip" and it is fine.

Joffm

I'm happy to have a Pull Request for ExampleSettings

Thanks the plugin was installed, however clicking it once installed lead to a 500 error: 

As well as the error image file I attached the zip file as it stands with the correct folder name.500: Internal Server Error The asset "/home/decisions/public_html/s/plugins/exampleSettings/assets/logo.png" to be published does not exist.An internal error occurred while the Web server was processing your request.

Hi,
1. I do not really know, why you want to click here
 

2. If you call the plugin it looks fine
 



3. The problem seems to be:
The plugin is uploaded to 
 
but the logo is searched  here
plugins/exampleSettings/assets/logo.png

Now you may 
create the folder "exampleSettings/assets" in "plugins" and copy a logo there, resulting in
 

or

• copy the entire folder from "upload/plugins" to "plugins",
• make sure to keep the "assets" folder with the logo
• uninstall it from "upload/plugins"
• do a new "scan files"

Joffm
 

Great thanks this line fixed the problem

"Now you may
create the folder "exampleSettings/assets" in "plugins" and copy a logo there"

So now the plugin works.

However, what I'm wanting to do with this plugin is add different text elements to the survey (or set of surveys) and I'm really not clear on how this happens.

There appears to be nothing in the plugin settings or within the surveys themselves that allow me to create additional text fields for a survey (or have I completely misunderstood what the purpose of this plugin was?)

SolutionsNZ wrote:

There appears to be nothing in the plugin settings or within the surveys themselves that allow me to create additional text fields for a survey (or have I completely misunderstood what the purpose of this plugin was?)

Maybe best is to explain what you want to do

There are no way currently to do this in plugin except for
- Question part using beforeQuestionRender
- javascript using beforeSurveyPage
- with replace in getPluginTwigPath but you can loose sme update on survey theme

Currently the best place for this are the Survey theme, but there are a lack of textarea settings then you can not use included automtaic system for settings ( see gitlab.com/SondagesPro/SurveyThemes/skel.../tree/master/options for sme example).
See this issue : bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=18895

Ok well what I want to do, which is what I thought this plugin did, is to add different text elements to the start of a survey.

I imagined it would go under the "Text Elements" tab.

I was also hoping with fingers crossed that some of the elements could be established in the survey's group, which would appear by default for each survey in the group, but could be removed or more added etc.

I was also hoping fingers crossed that the design for boxes containing the text could be established in group settings (or individual survey settings), probably under Theme. Survey Admins could move these boxes around the pages and change text, fonts, colours etc.

So thats what I was "hoping" and "imagining" could happen....

In this screen shot, in the in the Welcome Message you can see that some of the text could also be from dropdowns and multiple choice, but this could be going from "hoping" and "imagining" to "clearly dreaming"