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Don't display code in export function
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The meaning of the word "stable" for users
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laocoon wrote: It's not going to be handed out to any respondents, it's just for purpose of review the whole survey.
seeing the logic of questions is extremely important for a review.
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I mean for the internal use it's fine, but for presenting the survey to others, who would like to see the end result, it's useless. So you can only show it electronically...
I'm using the latest LS 3.22 hosted on LS servers, not installed locally.
- LouisGac
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Also, taking screenshots of a series of web pages automatically is not something that can be done via a PHP script. It implies browser emulation (with for example PhantomJS), and that completely out of the scope of LimeSurvey. I suggest you'd rather have a look to applications done for that purpose.
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in my opinion all these export options are not thought to display the "look and feel" of the questionnaire.
"queXML" exports a paper-pencil questionnaire to be manually filled and read in by a scanner and OCR software.
If you are planning this, any equation to calculate something is useless.
"*.txt" usable to edit the survey in a program like EXCEL or OpenOffice
And the *.html - with the logic - is important for clients to check the logic.
Here is as an example the export of a commercial software:
As holch said already: This expressions are calculated while running the survey. So what to display instead?
And the look and feel clients can see if they start the survey.
And to be honest: Developers should focus on the more important issues (loops, skips, dynamic lists, flexible grouping, access to quota, free choice of open category,...) instead of getting bogged down in "nice to have" trivialities.
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thanks for your answers. I agree with Joffm that it's not the most important feature and the time of developers can be used for more important issues. I had to give the survey to someone to check for spelling mistakes, formulation and so on, so that's why I asked. I did screenshots of every page and that worked fine, just thought that I missed an option. Thanks for discussion.
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I see. But if you use dynamic text via Expressions, the reviewer would need to check that too.laocoon wrote: I had to give the survey to someone to check for spelling mistakes, formulation and so on, so that's why I asked. I did screenshots of every page and that worked fine, just thought that I missed an option. Thanks for discussion.
A lot of screenshot work depending on the length and complexity of a survey.
A test and review mode (disable filter, allow entering values to change behaviour) would be a nice feature, to allow review and translation feedback online.
bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=7407
The meaning of the word "stable" for users
www.limesurvey.org/forum/development/117...ord-stable-for-users
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laocoon wrote: Hello all,
thanks for your answers. I agree with Joffm that it's not the most important feature and the time of developers can be used for more important issues. I had to give the survey to someone to check for spelling mistakes, formulation and so on, so that's why I asked. I did screenshots of every page and that worked fine, just thought that I missed an option. Thanks for discussion.
to do so, I would suggest a CSV export (can be open in Excel) and then a CVS import