Adding Surveys

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1/18/2008 10:03:08 AM
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Adding Surveys

Following on from Tom's question in the blog comments...here is an explanation about the survey feature.

OK – I see on your website you have added a survey feature – you now need to create a survey and set it as the default for this page.

Click “Choose Survey” (you should be logged in as admin to see this link).

Click on the green “+” sign to add a new survey.

Complete the details for your survey and save.

The survey should now be in the list of surveys. From here you need to drill down through Pages – Questions – Question Properties by clicking on the links in the grid, one of the problems I realised after building the feature is that some skins don’t show links underlined, this means a skin like TechMania shows links with an underline but others don’t. I’ve used TechMania on the demo www.justsome.net/surveydemo

So for pages it will now say 0 in the page column – you need to click on this link and it will drill down into pages. Then follow the same principal for Questions and Question Properties.

When you have created a new survey you can then select the “Select Survey” link in the “Selected Survey” column (again depending on skin this may just look like text).

I hope this brief description helps you out – if not then please let me know and I’ll take a few screen prints to make it a little clearer.

Also I’d be interested on any opinions of how to make it more obvious how things work??? Maybe replace links with buttons, or force an underline on the links?? Any thoughts.
 

1/18/2008 10:07:24 AM
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Hey Rob,

I sent you a few messages off list. I'll fix some of the layout and make it consistent if you approve. Also found a stoed procedure bug when creating a survey.

I've been thinking about experimenting with an aspWizardControl inside an update panel to walk users through typical configuration steps of things.

There are several places in mojoportal where I think this approach could improve usability. So expert users can click the links in the grid but there would be an extra link for Survey Wizard that would walk through the steps.

I need to check on a CSSControl adapter version of Wizard control because I don't want table layouts.

Joe

1/18/2008 10:16:28 AM
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For just quick easy usability improvements I think we could add a little text link next to the number in the grids that says Add/Edit Survey Pages, Add./Edit Questions that does the same thing as clicking the number.

What do you think?

ps it seems to be working fine for me here after the stored procedure mod I mentioned in email.

Thanks,

Joe

1/18/2008 10:46:12 AM
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All sounds great Joe! I sent you an email.

cheers,

Rob

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