08091: The abilty to add custom fields to a question or group - LimeSurvey bugs and feature requests

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ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

08091	Feature requests	Survey editing	public	2013-08-09 05:52	2021-03-08 23:10

Reporter	DeveloperChris	Assigned To	c_schmitz
Priority	normal	Severity	feature
Status	closed	Resolution	won't fix

Summary	08091: The abilty to add custom fields to a question or group
Description	Give the ability to create any number of additional custom fields to a group or question. These fields can then be placed into the survey using the {CUSTOM-FIELDNAME} syntax This would greatly increase the flexibility of limesurvey.
Additional Information	For example: I just created a moderate survey. to get the survey to look right I had to hide javascript into the description of every group to add the required classes to the appropriate questions. I then saved the survey and imported it to create a second copy that was because both surveys were very similar (different target audience) I was stunned to find the questions renumbered. Why? questions should be referenced by surveyid-question they should not be unique per survey! Now I have to go through each group and redo the javascript. Now if I was able to add a custom field to the groups and questions I could have given each question a custom class. It could also be used for many other things. for example the custom javascript I used is fragile because its not displayed in the editor by default. another admin could come along and edit the description in wysiwyg thereby entirely deleting my javascript without realising it. If we had custom fields that js or class or whatever would be safe!
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DeveloperChris 2013-08-09 06:02 reporter ~25944 Last edited: 2013-08-09 06:03	For those that are interested this is the custom javascript I used to manipulate the classes in each question group [script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"] $(document).ready(function() { var questions= ['217','218']; for ( var i = 0, l = classes.length; i<l; ++i ) { $("#question" + questions[i]).addClass('text-short-wide'); } questions = ['159','160']; for ( var i = 0, l = classes.length; i<l; ++i ) { $("#question" + questions[i]).addClass('wide'); } }); [/script] the [script] is used to prevent our intrusion prevention system declaring this post as an xss hack The main issue apart from what is discussed above is it does not run until after popup messages are displayed and cleared (such as the mandatory Q warning). This makes the form render incorrectly behind the popup dialog. Note: Popup dialogs should be replaced by flyins!

DenisChenu 2013-10-01 14:48 developer ~26461	2.1 accept Question plugin and Q attribute plugin. Maybe before

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2013-08-09 05:52	DeveloperChris	New Issue
2013-08-09 06:02	DeveloperChris	Note Added: 25944
2013-08-09 06:03	DeveloperChris	Note Edited: 25944
2013-10-01 14:47	DenisChenu	Severity	@50@ => feature
2013-10-01 14:47	DenisChenu	Target Version	=> 2.1
2013-10-01 14:47	DenisChenu	Description Updated
2013-10-01 14:47	DenisChenu	Additional Information Updated
2013-10-01 14:48	DenisChenu	Note Added: 26461
2019-11-01 17:25	c_schmitz	Category	Survey design => Survey editing
2021-03-08 23:10	c_schmitz	Assigned To	=> c_schmitz
2021-03-08 23:10	c_schmitz	Status	new => closed
2021-03-08 23:10	c_schmitz	Resolution	open => won't fix