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Definition Pop-up & Looping back to a section in the survey before submitting

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8:42
June 28, 2007


Lisa

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Hi, My question is 2-part.

1. I want to list at least 11 categories. For each category, there will be up to 20 sub-categories. Each of the sub categories has a definition. I realize this would be a branching/page logic type question. However, I’d like to allow the recipients to browse the definitions before deciding on a response option, but I don’t necessarily want the survey to look like it’s filled with a bunch of text (definitions). Ideally, it would be neat if either a pop-up could appear upon a “mouse over”. Any suggestions? After this “Choose-One” option question, there will be up to eight more standard questions that aren’t dependent on the option (definition) they chose previously.

2. Also, this survey could be taken by an individual or by a qualified representative acting on behalf of multiple individuals. Therefore, I would need some kind of “looping” functionality, which would enable the recipient who is responding on behalf of multiple individuals to be able to go back to the 11 categories to select another different response option and then complete the following 8 standard questions. Another challenge is that I’m not stating that there is a limit to the number of responses that can be provided by one individual. If I had to set a limit, it could be a minimum of 20, and a maximum of 50.

Thanks,
Lisa

4:04
July 2, 2007


Scott McDaniel

Moderator

posts 94

I’m going to take call you offline since the question is a bit complicated, but here are a few related suggestions that might help other folks too.

Mouse-Overs with help text
Yes there are ways to accomplish mouse-over text or popups, it just depends on how fancy you need to get.

If you want a simple mouse over next to some radiobutton choices for instance there is an easy way to do that. It’s easiest to work in Notepad to put this this together then cut and paste it in. You want to create you option text with a “?” you can over over for more info like this sample question -

Who is your favorite actor?
Harrison Ford <a href=”#” title=”Stared in StarWars and Indian Jones”>?</a>
Bruce Willis <a href=”#” title=”Stared in Die Hard and 6th Sense”>?</a>

Now all you do is copy each option to the option title box (leave the reporting value ‘Harrison Ford’. Presto hover text.

If you need more sophisticated hovers that hold more info you could use what we use in our application to support our little blue question mark help texts. Take a look http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm

This could be added to your custom template.

Multiple Passes/loops through a series of questions
I can think of 3 ways to do this.

Use a Custom Group Question
Add the 8 individual questions to a Custom Group Type Question and then turn on the option to allow users to dynamically add additional groups on the fly. A perfect example of this is Jab application work history where you have several questions to ask about each postion held but no idea how many each person will have so they click ‘Add’ to get a new one.

Use Page Piping
You would ask in a how many loops were needed then place the 8 questions on a page and turn on “Pipe this Page x # of times” under the page options.

Add a link to the survey on your Thank You page
Allow a taker to start a fresh survey so they can answer it on behalf of someone else.

6:27
July 18, 2007


Lisa

Guest

Thanks Scott,
The page piping works beautifully and I found a way using show/ hide triggers to work around the hover text. I am still going to see if I can get the hover text working. Your example seems pretty straightforward so I’ll give it a try.

6:46
July 19, 2007


Lisa

Guest

Hi Scott, I couldn’t get the hover text to appear.??

7:35
July 19, 2007


Scott McDaniel

Moderator

posts 94

Hi Lisa,

Can you paste one of your example hovers in here? I can then troubleshoot it.

By the way, I thought you had decided to just have the descriptions right next to the names (rather than hover). At least the last time I saw the survey that was the way it looked.

1:02
July 23, 2007


lrh111

Guest

Yes, the Finance category has 20 definitions,so I thought I’d try it for aesthetics. I used your example and plugged the bolded script into the option text. It’s for the General Services… survey

Who is your favorite actor?
Harrison Ford ?

Bruce Willis ?

10:27
July 26, 2007


Christian Vanek

Moderator

Cambridge, MA

posts 784

I’m not sure if this thread is still open or not, but I notices in the example posted above it was not working becuase rather than normal qoutes the example was using Microsoft smart qoutes… thsoe don’t work inside HTML tags.

I fixed them in the example above.

-Christian

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