Re: Suggestions for Boolean layout?

Joel Palmius <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-survey.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Out of curiosity though, what was the trouble you had with SPSS? Exporting 
one choice/multi to spss and enabling "split into separate variables" 
can't end up much different that having several choice blocks, right?

   // Joel


On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Todd Slater wrote:

> Yes, that's a simple workaround for now--thanks! I definitely needed a
> fresh set of eyes to look at it!
>
> Todd
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:11:34PM +0200, Joel Palmius wrote:
>> Without having thought much about the consequences, how about staying with
>> CHOICE, or rather a set of CHOICE, but only have one option per block?
>>
>> Like:
>>
>> <CUSTOM>
>>   Which classes are you currently enrolled in?
>> </CUSTOM>
>>
>> <CHOICE NAME="class1" CAPTION="___" MULTI="yes" />
>>   <CHOICEELEMENT VALUE="1" CAPTION="ACC 222" />
>> </CHOICE>
>>
>> <CHOICE NAME="class2" CAPTION="___" MULTI="yes" />
>>   <CHOICEELEMENT VALUE="1" CAPTION="BUS 265" />
>> </CHOICE>
>>
>> ..
>>
>> I mean, in essence this would be the same as a set of booleans when it
>> comes to data downloading.
>>
>> Then as another discussion, I am not all that satisfied with the current
>> CSS setup concerning divs and classes and whatnot. It should be
>> restructured anyhow. But the above might work as a workaround right now.
>>
>>   // Joel
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Todd Slater wrote:
>>
>>> I learned the hard way that CHOICE MULTI="yes" is not always the best
>>> way to go if you're going to be running analysis in SPSS. I realized
>>> that what I really wanted was a series of BOOLEAN questions. However I
>>> can't seem to get a decent layout which is depressing cause I claim to
>>> "know" CSS ;P
>>>
>>> Here's what I'm after:
>>>
>>> Which class(es) are you currently enrolled in?
>>> ___ ACC 222
>>> ___ BUS 265
>>>
>>> Looking at the HTML source, it looks like the following CSS classes are
>>> in play here, in order of appearance:
>>>
>>> BOOLEAN - the whole question/section
>>> BOOLEANcap - in this case ACC 222 and BUS 265
>>> BOOLEANelm - included in another div and includes the checkbox
>>> BOOLEANcheckbox - style for the checkbox
>>>
>>> In this example I used a CUSTOM section for the question rather than the
>>> caption. The default layout for BOOLEAN questions is:
>>>
>>> Caption/Question
>>> ____
>>>
>>> Basically what I'm after is the same layout as a multi CHOICE but using
>>> BOOLEAN instead. Has anybody ran into this that can offer some suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Todd
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>
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