Re: problem with ILLEGALVAL in 3.2.2?

This is possible to make happen with a submit perl snippet though. Let me 
think a bit about it and I'll be back with an example.

   // Joel


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Todd Slater wrote:

> I see; I had never tried this before but the person I'm writing the
> survey for expected that a person might not select any of the choices,
> but did not want to put a "none of the above" option for fear of getting
> selections *and* none of the above, thus invalidating the answer. At the
> same time, she wants a value other than null if nothing is selected.
>
> Todd
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:23:26PM +0100, Joel Palmius wrote:
>> No, ILLEGALVAL does not have any function in a multichoice. The result of
>> a multichoice is a comma-delimited list of checked values, and in
>> consequence a list of no elements if no value was checked. This is
>> considered a legal value.
>>
>> This is at least the intended behavior. Has the behavior changed from
>> earlier versions?
>>
>>   // Joel
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Todd Slater wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to set up a question that a user doesn't have to answer, and if
>>> they don't answer it I'd like the value to be "7". Here's the item in
>>> question, but when I look at the data the value for it is blank/null. Is
>>> there anything wrong with my syntax?
>>>
>>> <CHOICE MULTI="yes" NAME="retplan" MUSTANSWER="no"
>>> ILLEGALVAL="7" CAPTION="Have you completed or are you actively planning
>>> for retirement in any of the following ways? Mark all that apply.">
>>>
>>> 	<CHOICEELEMENT CAPTION="Estate planning" VALUE="0" />
>>> 	<CHOICEELEMENT CAPTION="Drafting of a will" VALUE="1" />
>>> 	<CHOICEELEMENT CAPTION="Financial planning" VALUE="2" />
>>> 	<CHOICEELEMENT CAPTION="Investing in additional equity" VALUE="3" />
>>> 	<CHOICEELEMENT CAPTION="Researching federal or state retirement
>>> 	policy
>>> 	   issues" VALUE="4" />
>>> 	<CHOICEELEMENT CAPTION="Purchasing supplemental health insurance"
>>> 	VALUE=           "5" />
>>>       <CHOICEELEMENT CAPTION="Other" VALUE="6" />
>>>
>>> </CHOICE>
>>>
>>> Can you set ILLEGALVAL in a multi choice?
> Skickat av Todd Slater <[email protected]>
> till survey-discussion
>
Skickat av Joel Palmius <[email protected]>
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