Over the weekend we noticed that someone had been searching the site for information about passing variables from the url of the survey into the survey itself. In this quick post we will show you how you can do just that.
Month: July 2011
Learn Tables : Text Export
In our previous article we looked briefly at the Text export. In this article we will look at the Text export. The Text export will export your tables to a ascii text file that you can then load up into excel or edit with notepad.
Question Example : Auto Select
Description : This example allows you to type into the text box and watch the dropdown list change. This is usefull for very long lists.
Source : Converted from old Verge Free download.
V6 Author Wizard Files : Click Here Copy entire folder to your templates folder.
Professional IVS File : Click Here, Click File, Import Metadata in professional to load.
Question Example : Please select dropdown
Description : This examples shows you how to set a default answer in a drop-down list.
Professional IVS File : Click Here, Click File, Import Metadata in professional to load.
Learn Tables : HTML Export
In the next set of articles that i will write we will look at all the diffetent type of exports we can use. At the time of writing there are five types of export , html, text, excel, powerpoint and word. It is also possible to write your own type of exports and if you want some info on that let us know and we will point you in the write direction. In this article we will look at the HTML export and all the features you can use.
Question Example : BiPolar ( No Numbers )
Description : This examples shows you how to create a BiPolar Question with no numbers above the radio buttons.
V6 Author Wizard Files : Click Here Copy entire folder to your templates folder.
Professional IVS File : Click Here, Click File, Import Metadata in professional to load.
Question Example : Background Image
Description : This example shows you how to add a background image to your template. This could be used as shown to show your survey in draft mode.
Source : Modified
supplied by Richard Wilson @ IBM.V6 Author Wizard Files : Click Here Copy entire folder to your templates folder.
Professional IVS File : Click Here, Click File, Import Metadata in professional to load.
Learn Tables : Filters
In the previous article we looked at how to tabulate the questions in our survey. When we create tables it is often that we don’t want to tabulate all the data but a subset of it. In this article we will look at how we can create those sub sets of data so that we can filter our tables at the global level or at the table level.
Quick Post : Please Specify & Default Answer in drop-down list
Recently we where asked,
Q: Maybe an easy one but cannot find an attribute for it. In example Q – the dropdown list, i have a long list of answers but I need one answer as default selected. Is that possible?
So the answer is yes, and here is one way , that we hope answers your question. The metadata you need is as follows ,
Metadata(en-AU, Question, label)
Q1 "Question_Text_Goes_Here"
style(
Control(
Type = "DropList",
ReadOnly = False,
Accelerator = "CTRL+T"
)
)categorical [1]
{
Group "Please Select"
{A,B,C,D,E,F}
};
As you can see we are using a sub-list to get the result that is required. This way , the user cannot progress until they change the drop-down from Please Select to something else. The routing for this question is simple ,
Learn Tables : Numerical & Text
In the previous article we looked at how to tabulate categorical questions, in this article we will take our previous script and look at how we can tabulate numerical and text questions.