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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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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:
/* 
Copyright 2012 Denis Chenu for <http://www.sondages.pro>
 
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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.

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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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10 years 8 months ago #98072 by Gabriela
HI all,
Thanks to all for answering.
I understand, "they" means the guys in charge of the IT department of the organization. (its an NGO). I activated the survey, and did nto show any error.
But reading all of your comments, I supose my solution is not an option then especially because of the number of items.
Than I should choose a Multiple text question?
I prefered multiple choice cause actually there is not a fixed number of localities they visit per period, so its difficult to guess how many fields to add to the multiple text question...
Any ideas how to solve this, I really appreciate it.
Thank you so much again
gab
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10 years 8 months ago #98073 by Gabriela
Sorry,
when I tested in local it gave no error.
But in the server it did.

"[an error occurred while processing this directive]"

So definitely there would be a DB problem.

thanks..
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10 years 8 months ago #98076 by DenisChenu
Hello,

With selectjs : i don't tal af a multi text bur a long text.

The city is savec in DB like that:
city1,city2,city2

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10 years 4 months ago #101289 by dweisser
This solution is fantastic. Cascading selection FTW!

One question, when I put the function in the template.js, the cascading between drop-downs no longer works. Both parts of the script seem to have to be in the source of the questiontext of the second, or dependent, question.

I was only wondering why this is the case. Seems to me you should be able to put the first part into the template.js.

Thank you again for a really great piece of work!
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10 years 4 months ago #101337 by DenisChenu
Hi,

Think we can copy/paste all js file on template.js, but maybe lost something. And the scrpt was made for 1.92, not updated actually for 2.00.

Do you have a link to test ?

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