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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
07356Feature requestsConditionspublic2009-10-23 16:242021-11-08 08:50
ReporterMazi Assigned Togalads  
PrioritynormalSeverityfeature 
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Summary07356: Improve general handling of mandatory questions at a survey
Description

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.

Additional Information

A possible solution: Disable mandatory check under certain conditions
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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Evan

Evan

2010-03-25 23:11

reporter   ~24313

There is a non-programming sollution:

If you use the Web Developer Toolbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60) for Mozilla Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox) for testing surveys, it has a "Populate form fields" function under the "Forms" menu item. I use this to get around the annoyance of mandatory questions. This may not work for questions with specific validation but it will work in most situations) Sadly there's no equivalent for Internet Explorer.
galads

galads

2021-11-08 08:50

reporter   ~67160

Hello Mazi,

Thank you for suggesting a feature.

However, it seems the feature has been implemented already in the latest versions.

Please check on the latest versions and if the issue still exists, feel free to re-open the report.

kind regards,
galads

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2021-11-08 08:50 galads Note Added: 67160
2021-11-08 08:50 galads Bug heat 2 => 4
2021-11-08 08:50 galads Assigned To => galads
2021-11-08 08:50 galads Status acknowledged => closed
2021-11-08 08:50 galads Resolution open => fixed