07379: Toggle "Mandatory" setting on questions - LimeSurvey bugs and feature requests

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ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

07379	Feature requests	Conditions	public	2009-12-19 01:08	2021-11-09 11:02

Reporter	tpartner	Assigned To	galads
Priority	normal	Severity	feature
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed

Summary	07379: Toggle "Mandatory" setting on questions
Description	I would like to see a tool that could toggle the "Mandatory" setting on all questions in the survey from "on" to "off" and vice versa. This would make the Q/A process on long surveys much easier - one wouldn't need to answer every question just to check a fix on page 16 of a survey.
Additional Information	A possible solution: Add a button/input to survey settings that would toggle the mandatory states. To toggle the questions to optional, the button would query the DB, find all questions in the current survey with mandatory=Y and change them to mandatory=M. We need to use "M" so we can find them to toggle them back later. The system would see "M" as non-mandatory so all of these questions could now be skipped in a Q/A process. This way only the questions that the survey author had set to mandatory would be affected. To toggle the questions back to mandatory, the button would query the DB, find all questions in the current survey with mandatory=M and change them to mandatory=Y. I've put together a little php script to demonstrate the concept that you can grab at http://partnersinc.biz/testsites/misc_images/mandatory_toggle.txt (can't seem to attach anything here!).
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jas 2010-05-14 10:44 reporter ~24324	debugging surveys (groupwise) with lot's of questions already marked as 'mandatory' can be very time-consuming. I normally toggle the mandatory settings directly in the mysql-table, to bypas this problem. This function is one of the 'most wanted', in my opinion! A simple list, with all the questions and their mandatory-stting for quick editing would be usefull.

Mazi 2011-11-20 14:46 updater ~24325	There is a similar idea at http://ideas.limesurvey.org/ideatorrent/item/35/

TMSWhite 2012-06-08 17:31 reporter ~24326	I use the Excel survey structure import/export feature (documented here http://docs.limesurvey.org/Excel+Survey+Structure) for this. By keeping a master copy of the survey in Excel, you can easily blank some or all of the mandatory fields during testing. You can also easily re-order or remove blocks of groups or questions (e.g. to test mandatory features at the end of the survey without having to fill out all of the preceding questions). The only down side is that each time you import the Excel file, you get a new survey ID. However, since the Excel does not use SGQA codes at all, you don't need to worry about changing any conditions or javascript. This feature is available starting in version 1.92 (using a patch) and 2.0

Mazi 2012-11-30 15:20 updater ~24327	Now that we have all questions listed at the survey logic file another option might be to simply add a checkbox for each question there together with a "mark all" box on top and/or at the button and a simple "save" button.

galads 2021-11-09 11:02 reporter ~67200	Hello tpartner, 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

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2021-11-09 11:02	galads	Note Added: 67200
2021-11-09 11:02	galads	Bug heat	6 => 8
2021-11-09 11:02	galads	Assigned To	=> galads
2021-11-09 11:02	galads	Status	acknowledged => closed
2021-11-09 11:02	galads	Resolution	open => fixed