Hi Michael,
As part of my DP web application I have a surveying module. It
handles various types of questions:
* Yes No,
* Strong Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree and
Not Applicable
* Free form comments
The structure is that there is a questionnaire panel as the
master for a survey, which include a surveyid, author, title,
preamble (ie notes about what th survey is for), whether the
responses are anonymous, the start and end dates, and in my case
the class of recipients.
As a child of that panel there is a questionwording panel, One
record per question! I use the fields:
* question number
* Question part, eg you can have Q2a, Q2b, and they are grouped
on the survey form,
* and then the scaling being used for that question. eg Y/N,
Lickert scale, Free Form,
*or as a header, eg no question, for example:
Q2. The following questions relate to your experience with blah
blah, please answer each part (Header)
Q2a etc (question parts)
Q2b etc
You can add any number of questions you like, but my experience
is you should keep survey's small and tight otherwise you tend to
piss people off.
In my particular case, the user is sent an email, with a link to
the questionnaire,
eg
http:www.myserver.com/mysurvey.cgi?surveyid=AD54FG72&userid=bjh,
(or no userid if anonymous) and the survey is generated from the
database
Mine is only a single page survey, the user completes the survey
and submits the data back to the database. On the response side
their are two panels. The Response panel (one record for each
survey submitted) This panel has fields for
*the surveyid,
*a responseid,
*the date and time received,
*the userid, and the
*IP address.
This has a child panel which are the Response Instances for each
question ie one record for each question on the survey. In this
panel the fields are
* ResponseID (which ties it to the parent response panel)
* The Question Number and
* Question Part,
* The users response as the code for the response, or in a memo
field for free form text
The author of the survey can request reports from that surveyid.
Lickert scale and yes/No sum the totals for each response, and
freeform list the responses.
Do not be tempted to place the questions nor the responses onto
one panel. It might be easier coding to start with, but you will
suffer in the long run.
I hope this helps
Bye
Brian
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*From:* Michael Iannantuoni <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* Dataperfect Mailing List <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Sent:* Monday, November 27, 2006 8:35 PM
*Subject:* [Dataperf] Questionaire/Survey with DataPerfect
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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