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11 years 4 months ago #88943 by Mazi

lfortunato wrote: At last, it works! :) :) :)

I want to thank very much Denis for his helpfulness and kindness.
Now It works also with the category separator, and this is exactly what I needed to do!
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11 years 4 months ago #88961 by lfortunato
You are right, Mazi...
I have already said to my boss that a donation would be important for LS team and certainly for us, as users...

Many thanks to all you :)
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11 years 1 month ago #92203 by Gormack
Thank you for your nice solution above.
For those who wants to link more than 2 dropdown lists (list3 link to list2 link to list1) see below the small changes to apply into the code


$("#"+idSelectFilter).after(NewSelectElement);

to b replaced by

$("#"+idSelectFilter).before(NewSelectElement);

Thanks
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10 years 9 months ago #97375 by Gabriela
HI,
Im trying to achieve this but I cant make it work.
3 droplists,

1. Droplist 1
2. Droplist 2
3. Droplist 3

Droplist 2 depends on droplist 1
Droplist 3 depends on droplist 2

How can I adapt the code and / or implementation to achieve this?
thanks a lot.
Gabi
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10 years 9 months ago #97383 by Gabriela
And last question..

Im trying to retrieve the answer from the droplists, using INSERTANS , but its not possible as the select created with the java script has a different type of code (select3111)
is it possible to retrive the answer by other means?

thanks!!
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10 years 8 months ago #98037 by Gabriela
Sorry to insist..I really need this :unsure:

1. Droplist 1
2. Droplist 2
3. Multiple option Question

Droplist 2 if filtered by Droplist2
Multiple options question (checkboxes) is filtered by Droplist2.

Its very necessary cause Multiple options question has 1240 subquestions, I cant show them all...I have to filter them with dropdown2..

Is it possible to adapt the selectFilter.js to multiple options aswell?

Thank you so much
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10 years 8 months ago #98043 by holch
Hmmm, and with 1240 subquestions for a multiple options question (which creates one column per subquestion) you don't run into database limits?

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10 years 8 months ago - 10 years 8 months ago #98044 by Mazi
How many items are there at DD list 1/2 and the multiple choice question?

Maybe using some hidden questions and a (cascading) array filter might also do the trick.

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Last edit: 10 years 8 months ago by Mazi.
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10 years 8 months ago - 10 years 8 months ago #98051 by Gabriela
Hi all,
thanks so much for answering. Im attaching the survey, plus the .js code.
I dont know if there is a data base limit. I guess not, cause Ive told them about this and they said no problem...
Its on monitoring some activities in the south of Africa, and they want to have statistics on localities visited. So:
dropdown1= provinces
dropdown2= districts
Multiplechoice= localities (which can be several, thats why multiple choice)
I thought this code (used to filter the 2 dropdown ) could do, but its high level java for me. Im not at all javascript expert (or anything lower than that)

Thank you very much again.

Code:
/* 
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*/
/* Function to filter a select by another select 
   In the same page
   var qID : the number of question to filter 
   var filterqID : the number of question filtering
*/
function selectFilterByCode(qID,filterqID){
  $(document).ready(function(){
 
 
    var idSelectFilter = $("#question"+qID).find("select").attr('id');
    $("#"+idSelectFilter).hide();
    var idSelectFiltering = $("#question"+filterqID).find("select").attr('id');
    if(typeof idSelectFilter === 'undefined' || typeof idSelectFiltering === 'undefined' )
    { 
      return false;
    }
    else
    {
      var idNewSelectFilter = 'select'+qID
      var NewSelectElement = "<select id='"+idNewSelectFilter+"'><option value=''>"+$("#"+idSelectFilter+" option[value='']:first").text()+"</option></select>";
      $("#"+idSelectFilter).after(NewSelectElement);
     /* $("#"+idNewSelectFilter).width($("#"+idSelectFilter).width());*/
      $("#"+idSelectFiltering).change(function(){
        $('#'+idSelectFilter).val('');
        $('#'+idNewSelectFilter).val('');
        var valuefilter=$(this).val();
        $('#'+idNewSelectFilter+' option').not(':first').remove();
        $('#'+idSelectFilter+' option').each(function(){
          if($(this).attr('value').indexOf(valuefilter)==0){
            $(this).clone().appendTo('#'+idNewSelectFilter);
          }
        });
      });
 
      $("#"+idNewSelectFilter).change(function(){
        $('#'+idSelectFilter).val($(this).val());
    $('#'+idSelectFilter).trigger('change');
      });
 
      if($("#"+idSelectFiltering).val()!=''){
        var valuefilter=$("#"+idSelectFiltering).val();
        $('#'+idSelectFilter+' option').each(function(){
          if($(this).attr('value').indexOf(valuefilter)==0){
            $(this).clone().appendTo('#'+idNewSelectFilter);
          }
        });
        if($("#"+idSelectFilter).val()!=''){
           $('#'+idNewSelectFilter).val($("#"+idSelectFilter).val());
        }
      }
    }
  });
}
function selectFilterDualScale(qID){
  $(document).ready(function(){
    if($("#question"+qID).hasClass('array-flexible-duel-scale')){
      // Fix width of columns
      answertextwidth=$(this).find("col.answertext").attr('width').replace("%","");
      $(this).find("col.ddarrayseparator").attr('width',"2%");
      ddarrayseparatorwidth=$(this).find("col.ddarrayseparator").attr('width').replace("%","");
      var newwidth=(100-answertextwidth*1-ddarrayseparatorwidth*1)/2;
      $(this).find("col.dsheader").attr('width',newwidth+'%');
      $("#question"+qID+" table.question tbody tr").each(function(index){
        $(this).find("select").each(function(){
          //$(this).attr('id',$(this).attr('id').replace('#',"_"));
        });
        var idSelectFiltering = jqSelector($(this).find("select").eq(0).attr('id'));
        var idSelectFilter = jqSelector($(this).find("select").eq(1).attr('id'));
        var idNewSelectFilter = jqSelector('select'+qID+'_'+index);
        var NewSelectElement = "<select id='"+idNewSelectFilter+"'><option value=''>"+$("#"+idSelectFilter+" option[value='']:first").text()+"</option></select>";
        $("#"+idSelectFilter).hide();
        $("#"+idSelectFilter).after(NewSelectElement);
        $("#"+idNewSelectFilter).width($("#"+idSelectFilter).width());
 
        $("#"+idSelectFiltering).change(function(){
          $("#"+idSelectFilter).val('');
          $('#'+idNewSelectFilter).val('');
          var valuefilter=$(this).val().substring(0, $(this).val().length - 2);
          $('#'+idNewSelectFilter+' option').not(':first').remove();
          if($(this).val()==""){
            $('#'+idNewSelectFilter).hide();
          }else{
            $('#'+idNewSelectFilter).show();
            $("#"+idSelectFilter).find('option').each(function(){
              if($(this).attr('value').substring(0, $(this).attr('value').length - 2)==valuefilter){
                $(this).clone().appendTo('#'+idNewSelectFilter);
              }
            });
          }
 
        });
        $("#"+idNewSelectFilter).change(function(){
          $('#'+idSelectFilter).val($(this).val());
      $('#'+idSelectFilter).trigger('change');
          saveval=$('#'+idSelectFiltering).val();
          $('#'+idSelectFilter).trigger('change');
          if($(this).val()==""){
            $('#'+idSelectFiltering).val(saveval);
            $('#'+idSelectFiltering).trigger('change');
            $('#'+idSelectFilter).val($(this).val(""));
          }
        });
 
        if($("#"+idSelectFiltering).val()!=''){
          var valuefilter=$("#"+idSelectFiltering).val().substring(0, $("#"+idSelectFiltering).val().length - 2);
          $('#'+idSelectFilter+' option').each(function(){
            if($(this).attr('value').substring(0, $(this).attr('value').length - 2)==valuefilter){
              $(this).clone().appendTo('#'+idNewSelectFilter);
            }
          });
 
          if($("#"+idSelectFilter).val()!=''){
             $('#'+idNewSelectFilter).val($("#"+idSelectFilter).val());
          }
        }else{
           $('#'+idNewSelectFilter).hide();
        }
      });
    }
  });
}
function jqSelector(str)
{
    return str.replace(/([;&amp;,\.\+\*\~':"\!\^#$%@\[\]\(\)=>\|])/g, '\\$1');
}
Last edit: 10 years 8 months ago by DenisChenu. Reason: Use code balise PLEASE !
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10 years 8 months ago #98053 by DenisChenu
Hello,

This JS is not for multi choice question type, only for select single choice.

But here, i really think you need to review complete system : you can't have 1240 sub question, a really bad idea.

I think you need : 2 select like actually , and one text question type.

For the text question type :
Use some ajax source : ivaynberg.github.io/select2/index.html#ajax
Use tag system : ivaynberg.github.io/select2/index.html#tags

Dut need another script here.

Denis

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10 years 8 months ago #98059 by holch
Overall I think the number of subquestions might be a problem, because there are certain limits on the number of columns in a MySQL database (like for most other database engines as well). And as you probably have more questions than this multiple choice question with 1240 subquestions, I think you will easily hit those limits.

First of all, the system with the two dropdowns will only work, if the person only has activities in one district of one province.

I don't know how many provinces do exist and how many districts a province has. I assume it is not an option to create different questions for each province and then for each district which will be shown by conditions. But anyway, this will still not solve the problem of many, many columns in the database table.

And by the way: Who are "they" who said this will not be a problem?

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10 years 8 months ago #98060 by Mazi

holch wrote: Overall I think the number of subquestions might be a problem, because there are certain limits on the number of columns in a MySQL database (like for most other database engines as well). And as you probably have more questions than this multiple choice question with 1240 subquestions, I think you will easily hit those limits.

I agree. Before continuing, I recommend to activate the survey for testing to see if you run into the DB table limit.

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