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13 years 2 months ago #54706 by stefann
Is there a way to ask for a month and year in a single question, without requiring the user to specify a date?

I'm after some general questions like when did you start using these services, for which a specific date is unreasonable and not incredibly useful, but a month and year provides useful data.

Is this possible to achieve this, preferably with a date field?
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13 years 2 months ago #54712 by tpartner
You could use a little JavaScript to hide the day dropdown of a date question and auto-populate it with the 1st day. This way your respondents would only see the month and year dropdowns and your data would show the first day of each month selected.

Create your date question using dropdowns.

Set up your survey to use JavaScript and place the following script in the source of the date question.
Code:
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
 
    $(document).ready(function() {
 
        $('.date .day ').hide();
        $('.date .day option:eq(1)').attr('selected', 'selected');
 
    });
 
</script>

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12 years 5 months ago #66814 by aeso
This solution works perfectly for a single date. Is there an easy way to make it work for multiple date entries on the same page? They all become hidden but only the first one submits properly. Thanks!
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12 years 5 months ago #66816 by Mazi
How about using the dual scale question type with dropdown layout and then have scale 1 for months and scale 2 for years: docs.limesurvey.org/Question+type+-+Arra...tions+for+LimeSurvey

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12 years 5 months ago #66820 by tpartner
This should do the trick:
Code:
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
 
  $(document).ready(function() {
 
    $('.date .day').hide();
 
    $('.date .day').each(function(){
      $('option:eq(1)', this).attr('selected', 'selected');
    });
  });
 
</script>

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12 years 5 months ago #66825 by aeso
Fantastic, this works perfectly! Wonderful work!
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12 years 5 months ago #66845 by Mazi

aeso wrote: Fantastic, this works perfectly! Wonderful work!

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10 years 2 months ago #103389 by mrli999

tpartner wrote: This should do the trick:

Code:
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
 
  $(document).ready(function() {
 
    $('.date .day').hide();
 
    $('.date .day').each(function(){
      $('option:eq(1)', this).attr('selected', 'selected');
    });
  });
 
</script>



Can I still use it in 2.05? I create two date questions, and then put those codes in each question?
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10 years 2 months ago #103400 by tpartner
Here is an updated version for 2.05. Add this script to the source of every date question you want affected.
Code:
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">  
 
  $(document).ready(function() {
 
    // Identify this question
    var qID = {QID};
    var thisQuestion = $('#question'+qID);
 
    // Hide the day dropdown
    $('select.day', thisQuestion).hide();
 
    // Set the day to 1
    $('select.day option:eq(1)', thisQuestion).attr('selected', 'selected');
 
    // Hide the first separator "-" character
    $('.answer-item', thisQuestion).contents().not('label, select, input, :empty').wrap('<span class="date-separator" />');
    $('span.date-separator:eq(0)', thisQuestion).hide();
  });
</script>

Cheers,
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10 years 2 months ago #103405 by mrli999

tpartner wrote: Here is an updated version for 2.05. Add this script to the source of every date question you want affected.

Code:
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">  
 
  $(document).ready(function() {
 
    // Identify this question
    var qID = {QID};
    var thisQuestion = $('#question'+qID);
 
    // Hide the day dropdown
    $('select.day', thisQuestion).hide();
 
    // Set the day to 1
    $('select.day option:eq(1)', thisQuestion).attr('selected', 'selected');
 
    // Hide the first separator "-" character
    $('.answer-item', thisQuestion).contents().not('label, select, input, :empty').wrap('<span class="date-separator" />');
    $('span.date-separator:eq(0)', thisQuestion).hide();
  });
</script>


If I use / as the separator characte, are the codes the same?
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10 years 2 months ago #103406 by tpartner
Yeah, should be. The script just wraps text elements (not labels, dropdowns, etc) in span elements and hides the first one.

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10 years 2 months ago #103407 by mrli999
Then if the format is yyyy/mm/dd, will it also work?
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