Re: Users' unintentional use of "Enter" causing data loss

Hi again folks,

Okay, this helps. Thanks. I could split the survey into two pages and then
implement this change. I'm not particularly concerned about DoS attacks as
my survey in running w/in a corporate firewall and only to people who reside
w/in that firewall.

BugAnt, if you've got another sol'n that would be most excellent. My target
respondents really prefer to have their surveys on one page.

Many thanks!

 - Jennifer


On 3/21/06, Joel Palmius <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> For the user-going-back problem, you can set CHECKKEY="no" in all pages
> but the last. This way you allow the user to go back and data will not be
> lost. The default behavior is to not allow respondents to go back and
> modify their answers.
>
> You are pointing at a bug though. The user should be notified that his key
> is illegal when submitting. Did this not happen?
>
> Note that the key thing only prevents DoS kind of attacks. It does not
> ensure that the user does not take the survey again once having finishing
> it.
>
> All this is only valid for survey with more than one page. One-page
> surveys cannot be modified by going back. Further, there is no way to
> notify the respondent he is editing an invalid copy before submitting,
> since there is no page access to the server when going back (he simply
> picks the previous page from his local cache).
>
> BugAnt: You did some stuff with key bindings for answering a survey. Any
> way to prevent enter from submitting form?
>
>    // Joel
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Jennifer Kurkoski wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm having two problems I'm hoping someone here can solve. This is the
> > second (the first problem was in an ealier message).
> >
> > I'm running mod_survey version 3.2.2.
> >
> > If you accidentally hit "Enter" at any point when filling out the
> survey, it
> > submits your data. You then likely hit the Back button and see that your
> > data are still there, so you go ahead and finish completing the survey.
> And
> > then you hit Submit. But mod_survey thinks you're trying to vote twice
> and
> > so ignores your answers. For my purposes, this is *highly* undesirable.
> I
> > don't expect people to fill it out twice and having the user be unaware
> that
> > her data are being lost is a much worse situation. I have one record
> that
> > contains only a username and nothing else, even though the timestamp
> > indicates that the respondent spent around the same amt of time
> completing
> > the survey as most others.
> >
> > No luck in the archives on this one either. Anyone have any idea what's
> > going on?
> >
> > Many thanks (again)!!
> >
> > - Jennifer
> >
> >
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> >
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> till survey-discussion
>



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