Hi Michael,

Try this link, I just whipped up an STR for you... It is pretty rough...  Many 
of the fields that are showing can be hidden, users do not need to see ID 
numbers and internal machinations.

the link is http://www.brileigh.net/PIC/survey.zip

Regards
Brian


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Iannantuoni 
  To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 7:04 AM
  Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Questionaire/Survey with DataPerfect


  Thanks Pat,

  After you said that you would approach such a project differently again, I 
don't think I'll ask you for your STR file but thanks for the offer. Your 
comment about storing each question in it's own record in a panel subordinate 
to the main questionnaire control panel is also useful.

  Thanks again,

  Michael



  Patrick Riley wrote: 
    Michael, I did one survey project in DataPerfect.  It worked out well in 
    the end as I was able to do very sophisticated cross tabulations by 
    various demographic components with ease.  My client (an $8 billion 
    multi-national company) was very impressed.

    A word of caution.  DataPerfect supports only 255 report variables 
    which I used to store tabulations.  As the survey form progressed, 
    I ran out of available variables.  I got around this by storing two 
    tabulation results in each variable by multiplying one of the tabs 
    by 1,000,000 which effectively stored it in the high end of the RV.  
    When printing the results, I parsed it out of the high end of the 
    RV by dividing by 1,000,000 and discarding the remainder.  To 
    get the low end tabulation out, I converted the numeric RV to a 
    string and, extracted the low end, and converted that back to a 
    number.

    If I was doing this again, I'd store each question in it's own record 
    in a panel subordinate to the main questionnaire control panel.  This 
    would eliminate problems with the number of available RVs and allow 
    you to create much longer surveys.  

    My questionnaire featured all of your question types plus several more 
    (rating something on a scale of 0 to 10, pick up to x choices from a 
    larger list of choices, or ranking a list of items in your order of 
    preference).  Comments were allowed on many of the questions.  The 
    DataPerfect output program allowed me to print the comments grouped 
    for review.  On cross tabulations, I was able to print just the comments 
    that pertained to the associated demographic.  
     
    I created the actual survey document as a Web based form and 
    imported the results into DataPerfect.  This worked great as I didn't 
    have any input efforts (which would have been substantial with the 
    large number of comments ... some of them quite lengthy).  The Web 
    based form enabled me to use a combination of input form features 
    (radio buttons and check boxes) coupled with JavaScript verifications 
    to only accept valid input.  This forced the input data to be completely 
    compliant eliminating any error handling in the DataPerfect application.  

    I still have this application in my possession.  I did this project about 
    7 or 8 years ago so I don't remember much about it but I could send 
    you the STR file if you'd like.  Frankly, if I was doing this again, I 
    wouldn't want my old application as it would certainly be difficult to 
    understand and modify.  I'd, instead, start from scratch using the two 
    level approach I described above.  If you would like the STR file, feel 
    free to call or E-mail.

    Hope this helps.

    Pat Riley 
    505-797-9072
     
     
    At 02:35 AM 11/27/2006, you wrote:

      Background:
      Our village has recently taken part in a  questionnaire/survey whereby 
everyone filled in a paper form which is now being transferred to computer 
file. The software provided by our local authority (Council) is not 
particularly good: you have to go on line for it to build a "Project List" of 
surveys done for other villages before selecting & downloading the one for us - 
it does this every time you want to transfer data from paper to file. The 
"Questionnaire" part then loads but is not very user friendly, not allowing you 
to go back to previous questions without loosing data back to that point . . . 
. I could go on. Once data has been transferred to files for the session, it 
must be uploaded but the process of building a Project List etc.. occurs again 
first - all extremely slow & frustrating.

      In a moment of frustration/weakness, I did say to the chap running the 
project for the village (he did have a good head of hair before it all 
started!) that it would be fairly straight forward to design a database that 
would do all that is required so much easier. Luckily for me, I'm too late this 
time as the project is well under way but may be repeated in a couple of years 
time.

      So my question is has anyone designed a DataPerfect database for 
questionnaires/surveys? It seems to me that that it should be fairly straight 
forward but maybe laborious. There questions fall into four categories:
          Simple Yes/No responses,
          Multiple choice options whereby only one of a number of options must 
be chosen,
          Multiple choice options whereby none, one, some or all of a number of 
options must be chosen.
          A box allowing comments to be written.

      The first and last are easy, I'm not sure of the best way to achieve the 
other two.

      The other problem is the size of the questionnaire. There are just under 
200 questions which would be too many for a single panel, although they are 
divided into sections such as Transport, Environment etc... I had a thought of 
using a panel for each section with a master Table of Contents Panel with links 
to all other panels a bit like an table of contents linking to the relevant 
pages of a book and maybe links from each panel to previous & next panels.

      This is all thankfully a way off yet but any thoughts or ideas would be 
welcomed.

      Michael

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Hi Michael,

Try this link, I just whipped up an STR for you... It is pretty rough...  Many 
of the fields that are showing can be hidden, users do not need to see ID 
numbers and internal machinations.

the link is http://www.brileigh.net/PIC/survey.zip

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Iannantuoni 
  To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 7:04 AM
  Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Questionaire/Survey with DataPerfect


  Thanks Pat,

  After you said that you would approach such a project differently again, I 
don't think I'll ask you for your STR file but thanks for the offer. Your 
comment about storing each question in it's own record in a panel subordinate 
to the main questionnaire control panel is also useful.

  Thanks again,

  Michael



  Patrick Riley wrote: 
    Michael, I did one survey project in DataPerfect.  It worked out well in 
    the end as I was able to do very sophisticated cross tabulations by 
    various demographic components with ease.  My client (an $8 billion 
    multi-national company) was very impressed.

    A word of caution.  DataPerfect supports only 255 report variables 
    which I used to store tabulations.  As the survey form progressed, 
    I ran out of available variables.  I got around this by storing two 
    tabulation results in each variable by multiplying one of the tabs 
    by 1,000,000 which effectively stored it in the high end of the RV.  
    When printing the results, I parsed it out of the high end of the 
    RV by dividing by 1,000,000 and discarding the remainder.  To 
    get the low end tabulation out, I converted the numeric RV to a 
    string and, extracted the low end, and converted that back to a 
    number.

    If I was doing this again, I'd store each question in it's own record 
    in a panel subordinate to the main questionnaire control panel.  This 
    would eliminate problems with the number of available RVs and allow 
    you to create much longer surveys.  

    My questionnaire featured all of your question types plus several more 
    (rating something on a scale of 0 to 10, pick up to x choices from a 
    larger list of choices, or ranking a list of items in your order of 
    preference).  Comments were allowed on many of the questions.  The 
    DataPerfect output program allowed me to print the comments grouped 
    for review.  On cross tabulations, I was able to print just the comments 
    that pertained to the associated demographic.  
     
    I created the actual survey document as a Web based form and 
    imported the results into DataPerfect.  This worked great as I didn't 
    have any input efforts (which would have been substantial with the 
    large number of comments ... some of them quite lengthy).  The Web 
    based form enabled me to use a combination of input form features 
    (radio buttons and check boxes) coupled with JavaScript verifications 
    to only accept valid input.  This forced the input data to be completely 
    compliant eliminating any error handling in the DataPerfect application.  

    I still have this application in my possession.  I did this project about 
    7 or 8 years ago so I don't remember much about it but I could send 
    you the STR file if you'd like.  Frankly, if I was doing this again, I 
    wouldn't want my old application as it would certainly be difficult to 
    understand and modify.  I'd, instead, start from scratch using the two 
    level approach I described above.  If you would like the STR file, feel 
    free to call or E-mail.

    Hope this helps.

    Pat Riley 
    505-797-9072
     
     
    At 02:35 AM 11/27/2006, you wrote:

      Background:
      Our village has recently taken part in a  questionnaire/survey whereby 
everyone filled in a paper form which is now being transferred to computer 
file. The software provided by our local authority (Council) is not 
particularly good: you have to go on line for it to build a "Project List" of 
surveys done for other villages before selecting & downloading the one for us - 
it does this every time you want to transfer data from paper to file. The 
"Questionnaire" part then loads but is not very user friendly, not allowing you 
to go back to previous questions without loosing data back to that point . . . 
. I could go on. Once data has been transferred to files for the session, it 
must be uploaded but the process of building a Project List etc.. occurs again 
first - all extremely slow & frustrating.

      In a moment of frustration/weakness, I did say to the chap running the 
project for the village (he did have a good head of hair before it all 
started!) that it would be fairly straight forward to design a database that 
would do all that is required so much easier. Luckily for me, I'm too late this 
time as the project is well under way but may be repeated in a couple of years 
time.

      So my question is has anyone designed a DataPerfect database for 
questionnaires/surveys? It seems to me that that it should be fairly straight 
forward but maybe laborious. There questions fall into four categories:
          Simple Yes/No responses,
          Multiple choice options whereby only one of a number of options must 
be chosen,
          Multiple choice options whereby none, one, some or all of a number of 
options must be chosen.
          A box allowing comments to be written.

      The first and last are easy, I'm not sure of the best way to achieve the 
other two.

      The other problem is the size of the questionnaire. There are just under 
200 questions which would be too many for a single panel, although they are 
divided into sections such as Transport, Environment etc... I had a thought of 
using a panel for each section with a master Table of Contents Panel with links 
to all other panels a bit like an table of contents linking to the relevant 
pages of a book and maybe links from each panel to previous & next panels.

      This is all thankfully a way off yet but any thoughts or ideas would be 
welcomed.

      Michael

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