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List installation details before automatically running the update script  
Written by Mazi the 14 Jan 10 at 14:17. Related project: 1.x all. Implemented
When having many Limesurvey installations on the same server and you want to add another fresh installation you really have to take care to use the correct settings in config.php. Otherwise you might update an existing installation instead of setting up a new one because when calling /admin/install the update script is called automatically without asking you if you really want to proceed. You might end in having an old installation using old files but being updated to the latest DB scheme which causes lots of problems at this old installation.
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Selected solution (#1): List a summary of the installation which should be updated
Written by Mazi the 14 Jan 10 at 14:17.
Prevent the script from being run automatically without asking for the users agreement. List some of the following details first to identify which installation is updated:
- $sitename
- $adminname
- $rooturl

- $databasename
- $databaselocation
- $databaseuser
- $dbprefix

Add a link "Update this installation" to start the update.

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Improve general handling of mandatory questions at a survey  
Written by Mazi the 23 Oct 09 at 16:24. Related project: 1.x all. New
When creating / testing / editing a survey mandatory question are really annoying. I can think of these situations where making questions of a survey (temporary) non mandatory will be a great improvement:

1. (Developer) Testing possible bugs
When importing a survey for testing mandatory question can drive you nuts.

2. (User) Previewing a survey which is in development
You just want to take a look at the questions and survey design, having to answer all mandatory questions is a mess.
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Solution #1: Disable mandatory check under certain conditions
Written by Mazi the 23 Oct 09 at 16:24.
Solution for 1.
A) If $debug is set to "2"/"3" don't execute the mandatory check.
B) New config setting "$ignore_mandatory", if set to "1" don't execute the mandatory check.

Solution for 2.
A) Create a "All questions are mandatory?" -> yes/no option at survey settings
B) Create an overview which lists all questions and a simple "mandatory yes/no" radio option. This way you can set up your survey without making question mandatory from the beginning at chose which questions should be mandatory at a later step.
This overview can be survey or group based.

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Remove INSERTANS from question text at survey results  
Written by Mazi the 15 Mar 10 at 17:52. Related project: 1.x all. New
When viewing survey results of questions which use INSERTANS placeholders these placeholders are displayed within the question text at the answer overview. When using lots of INSERTANS placeholders within one question the overview is hard to read (see screenshot) because of the additonal text/strings.

It would be nice if these placeholder were filtered.

An example can be found at http://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=3508
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Solution #1: Code a function to filter placeholders
Written by Mazi the 15 Mar 10 at 17:52.
These placeholders are used at several parts of the code so there should be some function to search for these strings. Shouldn't be hard to delete them in a next step.

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List assigned question attributes at question overview  
Written by Mazi the 15 Jan 10 at 16:38. Related project: 1.x all. New
When chosing a question from the dropdown list at the admin panel you get some information about
- code
- question text
- quesdtion type
- label set
- mandatory?

What's missing is information about assigned question attributes. You always have to switch to the "edit question" screen to get information about assigned question attributes.

This is not very user friendly and a design problem which probably could be fixed easily.
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Solution #2: add a table
Written by apps the 3 Feb 10 at 10:08.
add a table with 2 columns
|attribute name | attribute value|

and simply enlist each attribute with has a non-empty value.
It's up to the survey designer to understand, use and act in respect to the showed data.

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Create statistics for date questions  
Written by Mazi the 15 Jan 10 at 16:28. Related project: 1.x all. New
Up to now (LS 1.87) there are no statistics for question type "date" available. It would be nice to create some charts (showing results in a table isn't necessary from my point of view) so the admin gets an overview which date was entered.
No solutions.

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Installation: Check if folders are writeable and sessions can be created  
Written by Mazi the 12 Jan 10 at 17:42. Related project: 1.x all. Implemented
There are very much topics in the forum that deal with rights and session problems so it would be great to have a check if the necessary folders are writeable and if sessions on the server are created correctly (not sure how this can best be checked, any ideas?).
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Selected solution (#1): Let a script do the job
Written by Mazi the 12 Jan 10 at 17:42.
Maybe a PHP script can check this during install?

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Move the question help image to the templates  
Written by Mazi the 29 Sep 09 at 11:02. Related project: 1.x all. Already implemented
Right now the question help icon is placed at /limesurvey/images. This makes it hard to style the question help section. You are not able to change the image using the template editor.
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Solution #1: Move the question help image to the templates
Written by Mazi the 29 Sep 09 at 11:02.
By adding the question help image at every template and changing the code slightly to take the image from the template folder it ia possible to use your won question help icon and style this part by using CSS.
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Solution #2: Already implemented
Written by c_schmitz the 30 Sep 09 at 18:31.

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