we are running limesurvey version 1.85+ (7337).

In questions using multiple numeric answers with sliders, sometimes we have answers that the participant can skip if they wish.

If they have clicked at all on the slider answer before deciding to skip it, however, a value is recorded. They can then slide back and forth after that but cannot go back to no value (so are in effect at that point forced to answer/have an answer value recorded).

We would like a way for participants to reset the slider value to nothing (not zero but no value) as if they had never clicked on the slider at all.

hi:

I'm a long time phpsurveyor/limesurvey fan - cf : http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/index.php?p=513 .

Right now I'm on day one of a project requiring some extended delphi type studies - meaning that I don't yet have many clues about what to do or how to do it.

Nevertheless I'm looking at Limesurvey because it appears to have all, or almost all, the parts needed to do this. However, it seems there's one capability which I don't think you have that would make a difference for this use of your product.

It's a self-modifying question type: one in which the answers available to the survey taker vary dynamically with the input from other people taking the survey - vide:

1X Our consultants are recommending biometric locks for lab and office doors as well as the supplies and components cabinets. In this context, how would you rank the alternatives listed below?


1X1 Accept consultant's recommendation
1X2 Stick to existing mechanical locks
1X3 Switch to hotel like card locks
1X4 or ? _____________________________

So someone fills in:

1X4 or? replace employee cards with the Sun Ray cards, and use them for the doors too

and now I want the next person to load the question to see the alternatives as:


[....]

If you have "No answer" globally deactivated, you sometimes add an item "No answer" by hand to certain questions.

If you then want to use "other answer", the position of "other answer" is below "No answer".

So it would be a common feature to allow "Other answer" at a certain position in the list.

The most flexible way, would be to allow a "Other answer" field behind every item in the list.

It would be useful to allow the Array (Flexible Labels) question type to present the choices as Drop-Down boxes, similar to the Array (Flexible Labels) Dual Scale option.

The rationale for this is that I am asking frequency questions, across a wide range of activities, and am completely out of space on both axes!

In response to suggestions regarding my forum post #33698, I am requesting the following feature:

I would like to see an attribute for the short free text question type textbox for entering a password. Instead of seeing the password, the user would see a character such as a "dot" or an asterisk.

Thank you!

I am experiencing the same issue with twodifferent kinds of question:
1) I have set up a multiple numerical input question so that the people who decide to answer must distribute 100 points (%) into a few categories (equals_num_value = 100). This question is set up as not mandatory. However when one decides to skip it and go on, a warning saying that the question must be properly answered appears. In this way it is not possible to go on without answering this question, which is what I don't want. I would like people to be free to answer or not this question. Those who decide to answer must answer properly, that is they must distribute 100 points into given categories;
2) the same thing happens in a ranking question. The question is not mandatory: so the people who decide to answer must rank all the listed categories (7), while those who decide to skip it must have the chance to go on without answering.

When we ask people to write expenditure for example, we would like to ask also the frequency. Ok that is possible with 2 questions, but with an important number of questions, design becomes awful.

Today :
______

Food
123

Frequency
Weekly

Beverage
253

Frequency
Monthly

Electricity
123

Frequency
Yearly

We would like :
____________

Description Amount Frenquency
Food 123 Weekly
Beverage 253 Monthly
Electricity 123 Yearly

[....]

Some questions you might want to use in different questionnaires. e.g. some standardized questions for socio-demographics, etc.

It should be easy to save questions in a kind of library, from where you can easily implement them to a new questionnaire.

Hi, I think it will be useful to have the possibility to change the label for the "non mandatory" option.

i.e.
Which party will you vote next sunday?

2 Party 2
3 Party 3
1 Party 1
...
10 Party 10
(in random order)

11 Don't vote/Don't know/Don't answer
(this is the "non mandatory" option with a changed label)


Regards,
Arnaldo.

Hi, I will explain with an example...

In sociopolitical surveys, often we use this questions:
"Which party will you vote next sunday?"

Answers are the number of the parties and three possibility for not voting:
"I will not vote", "I will vote but I do not know which party yet", "I don't want to tell you".

I would like to display parties in random order and the "non vote" answer in fixer order.

Like this:

2 Party 2
3 Party 3
1 Party 1
...
10 Party 10
(in random order)
11 I will not vote
12 I will vote but I do not know which party yet
13 I don't want to tell you
(in fixed order)



Thanks,
Arnaldo.