Re: For 3.2.5

Hi Joel,

it's a pity that there is no MATC grant for mod_survey. But it woud be
great if you could do some enhancements with the support of your
university.

- It would be nice, when the default cookie timeout could be customized,
to change cookie timeout not only for the whole application but also for
a single questionaire only.

- A really improvement, but probably a greater thing, for mod_survey
would be a revision of the mandatory fields handling. Would this be
possible in a maintainance release - you wrote there is some code in stock.

- After filling out the last page, you submit the survey. Now the
unlovely thing happends that you get a individual message (this is good
;-) but in an entire other design. I've used this suboptimal workaround:
<SURVEY ... CONTINUE="http://my-last-page" REDIRECT="yes"> on the last
page. So I have a customizable but static page, without the success or
error message. Is there another way to use a template or an include
directive to get the last page in an adapted design with the dynamic
messages?

- On questions with <CHOICE ... OTHERFIELD="Other"> you can export data
only in one variable. But it would be nice to write the given
alternatives in one variable and all answers _typed in_, in a second
variable.

Kind regards
Clemens





Joel Palmius wrote:
> Eventhough mod_survey did not get the MATC grant, it would seem that
> it woke up some people at my university, and that I may get a minor
> part-time to do survey thingies starting this spring. Not having to do
> everything on my spare time, at least I can fix up some long-standing
> known bugs and do a maintainance release.
>
> Having read through the mailing list archive the below is what I've
> found that needs be adressed. Please add what more you think should be
> fixed.
>
>   // Joel
>
> PLANNED FIXES FOR 3.2.5
> -----------------------
> (these are things I may or may not include for 3.2.5, depending on
> time and resources)
>
> * BUG: When matrix MULTI, going back and resubmitting will not clear
>   previously checked values, meaning values will only add.
> * BUG: Using a pipe as delimiter in delimited fields produce weird
>   effects
> * BUG(s): Many problems with running under windows (doubt I'll fix all
>   at the moment)
> * BUG: Uniqueness checking through IP and cookie is documented and in API
>   but not implemented (Uniqueness through Auth works as intended)
> * BUG: Using time() in a perl snippet causes a security exception.
> * BUG: Sometimes display-time perl snippets refuse to parse
> * BUG: Trying to download data when no data submitted causes a crash
>   (should display an error message instead)
> * BUG: Some of the themes look strange in newer browsers
> * FEATURE: Progress bar is not back-ported from devel branch
> * FEATURE: Persistance is not (properly) back-ported from devel branch
> * FEATURE: Should be possible to add html near/below submit buttons
> * FEATURE: Make clipping text at 250 chars optional in SPSS export
> * FEATURE: Test and make sure mod_survey works with apache 2.2
> * FEATURE: Update installer to support new Gentoo layout
>
> LONGER TERM FIXES
> -----------------
> * BUG: Some translations are way behind
> * BUG: Many error messages are way behing on explanations
> * BUG: Auth sometimes persist after a submit
> * FEATURE: Debian/ubuntu package
> * FEATURE: Unicode support
>
> Skickat av Joel Palmius <[email protected]>
> till survey-discussion
>


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