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2 years 5 months ago #220468 by Jmantysalo
Extra information field for a survey was created by Jmantysalo
Currently we can add additional attributes for a survey participant. But how about the surveys itself? Would others find it useful to have a short text field for additional survey info? The field could contain for example "project:missiles, customer:army, test" or whatever the site would use. In the university we could have a project number here etc.
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2 years 5 months ago #220495 by DenisChenu
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Use description ?
Or manual.limesurvey.org/BeforeSurveySettings ?
Or Surveys group ?

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2 years 5 months ago #220511 by Jmantysalo
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Description is shown to the user, so it is not good for an internal information.

Survey groups can help, but they allow only one variable, so there can't be both tags "project_number_321" and "test". Also they are already used for common settings.

Hooking BeforeSurveySettings will work, but I am thinking if this feature would be useful enough to get in to the core. Maybe it's not.
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2 years 5 months ago #220523 by DenisChenu
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Usage ?

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2 years 5 months ago #220552 by holch
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Description is shown to the user, so it is not good for an internal information.


Only if you want to. I never show it. I understand that some might though.

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2 years 5 months ago #220560 by DenisChenu
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About description : seems a good idea to show it (as title) in Survey listing.
No ?

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2 years 5 months ago #220561 by Jmantysalo
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Description is shown to the user, so it is not good for an internal information.


Only if you want to. I never show it. I understand that some might though.

Sounds like a kludge. Another thing I think about is fax number, which is not used anymore. But that's also kind on kludge.
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2 years 5 months ago #220590 by holch
Replied by holch on topic Extra information field for a survey
Learned a new work: "kludge". Had to look it up. ;-)

Well, many things in Limesurvey are a "kludge", I'd say. Like using the question groups for creating survey "pages" (and then lacking the option of "logical question groups" because we used them for "visual question groups"/pages). I find that far more problematic, as it has to do on how we present surveys.

Adding some aditional information to a survey is internal and easier to work around or easier to accept a kludge in my opinion. But that is another topic. ;-)

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2 years 5 months ago #220597 by DenisChenu
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More way to extend => less kludge.

Wordpress core don't have a lot of kudge, but have a lot of plugins.

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2 years 5 months ago #220619 by bismark
Replied by bismark on topic Extra information field for a survey
as Denis said, we also use PluginEvent BeforeSurveySettings to enter some tags maybe, but they are not searchable in the survey list, so we additionally create a our own survey list
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