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Make "Mandatory" only count when submitting

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6 years 11 months ago - 6 years 11 months ago #153467 by houcka
I would like to make all of the questions mandatory but still allow users to hop between different sections.

In other words, mandatory on submit only.

Is this possible?
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6 years 11 months ago #153482 by holch
No, at least not out of the box.

I answer at the LimeSurvey forum in my spare time, I'm not a LimeSurvey GmbH employee.
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6 years 11 months ago - 6 years 11 months ago #153487 by jelo
In my feature request you'll find links to threads around this topic with a few workarounds.
bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=12088
But to apply this "semi mandatory" behavior to a lot of questions seems to be impossible.

Surveydesigners which are already aware of these concepts will use other tools, since if you have to design adhoc surveys you won't get the additional amount of workarounds payed.

In other tools you just change this behavior with one click.


If you design one survey for eternity it might be possible to get away with workarounds.

The meaning of the word "stable" for users
www.limesurvey.org/forum/development/117...ord-stable-for-users
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6 years 11 months ago - 6 years 11 months ago #153495 by tpartner
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Seriously? So, in your opinion, workarounds are valuless to professional survey developers?

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6 years 11 months ago #153519 by houcka
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Well that's a shame. Thanks for answering though! :)
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6 years 11 months ago #153520 by tammo
In my idea workarounds are absolutely not valueless, but they do tend to be forgotten, since finding them back here at the forum is sometimes not easy. I think that there is a need for a database of documented (and tested) workarounds, with the versions that they work on and with example questions/groups/surveys.

I would not mind working on such a solution, together with others.

Tammo


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6 years 11 months ago #153522 by tpartner
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Cheers,
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6 years 11 months ago - 6 years 11 months ago #153526 by holch
Without workarounds a lot of stuff couldn't be done in Limesurvey. So I think the workarounds are VERY valuable. If something is a very rare case, workarounds can help to get to something that probably will never make it to core, because it is not worth it implenting, because only very few need it. So the possibility of workarounds are great.

However, if certain workarounds are in a high demand, they should move from workaround to core. Especially that "normal" users often are not able to implement workarounds (no access to the template, no possibility to use Javascript, etc).

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