Feature Request, Bug Data Export

Joel Palmius wrote:
> And, oh.. If you have ideas and bug reports I'll be interested in
> hearing about them no matter what happens with MATC. :-) 

Hi Joel,

thanx for this encouragement. ;-)

First I'd like to reminde the already reported bug concerning the
progress bar
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.mod-survey.general/1224

You wrote:
> But it seems something is missing in the code, it must have fallen off at 
> some point.

A really improvement (this is a feature request :-) for mod_survey would
be a revision of the mandatory fields handling. I wrote this some time ago:

> The implementation of <CHOICE .. MUSTANSWER="yes"> is a problem. You
> get the message that an input is missing on the next page (...). 
> You have to go back (by browser
> function) and you have to search "by hand" the missing fields. Would it
> be possible to present the "normal" page with an additional text on top
> "mandatory fields are empty" and a message "pleas fill out" next the
> empty but mandatory fields? It would improve the usability for the
> mandatory fields a lot.

You wrote
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.mod-survey.general/1243)
"initial code for it exists in the development branch"

It would be great to have this function in a stable version. The lack of
this function is the reason for using OSP instead of ModSurvey in some
surveys where we need mandatory fields.

By the last data export I noticed a minor bugs:

- in the "Abgegrenzte Felder" export (I hope you know the english
aquivalent, we have here a german installation) the option
>Benutze [ ] als Trennzeichen.<
with the pipe | as custom specified delimiter makes trouble, a "normal"
delimiter like @ generates this output
    20070621_082601_9828@-1@-1@- bitte auswählen -@

but the pipe provides this:
    2 0 0 7 0 6 2 1 _ 0 8 2 6 0 1 _ 9 8 2 8 | - 1 | - 1 | - b i t t e a
u s w ä h l e n - |

Btw the SPSS option >String-Werte anfuehren (" enthaltene Werte werden
ersetzt durch \').< would by good by the "Abgegrenzte Felder" export too.

Another feature request: It would be nice to add some text next the send
button. This does not work

>      <ROUTE CONTINUE="question-2-5.survey"/>
>   <CUSTOM>{¤footer.inc.html¤}</CUSTOM>

Is the limitation to 250 characters >Sofern nicht ausgeschloessen, sind
MEMO-Felder enthalten, werden aber nach 250 Zeichen abgeschnitten.< on
the SPPS export a mod_survey limitation? I guess longer stings were a
problem of old SPSS versions, perhaps it is no problem with newer one.
So the message could be deleted or adjusted.

We use the latest stable releases 3.2.4.

Kind regads.
Clemens

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