On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <[email protected]>wrote:

> 2009/12/8 Jason Pickering <[email protected]>
>
>
>> However, before we jump into that, I think revisiting the use of
>> something like LimeSurvey, which is pretty darned good and free, for
>> such surveys, is not a bad idea.
>>
>>
> For sure, I agree that there are other and better tools out there for
> conducting surveys. Still need to deal with storage of the survey data or at
> leasts parts of it, in order to be able to analyse it and to correlate with
> service-routine data.
>
>
Yes to both. We will for sure not replicate LimeSurvey, OpenXdata or CsPro,
but it would be good to take some lessons from these best practicses when it
comes to storage and handling.


>  The problem I guess is that with such choice
>> > questions, there is not really a datavalue - i.e. the dimension option
>> > becomes the datavalue to be stored.
>>
>
> Not really. If the data element is a boolean then the "data element + the
> category option combo" will have a Yes or No value.
> The data entry form should be able to assign the Yes value to the selected
> options somehow.
>
>
You are right, it would be boolean values. And that should allow us to also
cater for multiple choice questions where more than one option can be
selected.

Knut
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