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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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07487 | Feature requests | Survey editing | public | 2011-05-16 11:02 | 2021-11-17 08:15 |
Reporter | lovepade | Assigned To | galads | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | feature | ||
Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
Summary | 07487: Sometimes error and help messages could be improved | ||||
Description | Often I find that the standard error message is to generic for a specific question I am asking. As an example I am right now asking for the respondents email adress, using a short text field with a simple reg-ex validator. I don't want to show an elaborate "help" message as default because 90% will just write their email (or not). But if somebody writes e.g. "myname @gmail.com", the reg-ex kicks in an an error pops out. The standard error is something like "Please answer all questions correctly". But in this case, the respondent might be confused because he thinks he answered correctly. It was by accident that he put in an extra whitespace. in "myname @gmail.com". | ||||
Additional Information | A possible solution: New "Error text" option for each question If I enter txt in the "error message" field then this error is shown instead of the generic answer. For the email example above I would e.g. write something like this: "When you enter your email adress we perform a simple check to see if the email adress is entered correctly. You'd be suprised how many people accidently put e.g. an empty space (like this: " ") or forgets the "@". It seems you made a small mistake like this? please correct it (or simply delete your answer and move on) | ||||
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Bug heat | 6 | ||||
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For solution 2, it's easy to in template. your div with a help class. .helpdisplay:none Or something like that |
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I think this could be a very good feature... Will try and implement the css hack in a survey now. Thanks for this idea Shnoulle. |
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Dear lovepade , Thank you for suggesting a feature. However, we will not be picking this up because the use case is too specific or the use case might not fit to the latest versions of LimeSurvey. Other reasons why the feature is dropped could also be, it has been implemented already. Please check on the latest versions and if the issue still exists, feel free to re-open the report. kind regards, |
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Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2019-11-01 17:25 | c_schmitz | Category | Survey design => Survey editing |
2021-11-17 08:15 | galads | Note Added: 67358 | |
2021-11-17 08:15 | galads | Bug heat | 4 => 6 |
2021-11-17 08:15 | galads | Assigned To | => galads |
2021-11-17 08:15 | galads | Status | acknowledged => closed |
2021-11-17 08:15 | galads | Resolution | open => fixed |