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How to customize missing answer notice

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6 years 6 months ago #159820 by william71
How to customize missing answer notice was created by william71
Hi,
I need to customize both the missing answer pop up and the red notice which indicates that mandatory answers are missing. Essentially, because they should sound more friendly in the context of our survey.

A grep search within all limesurvey files, that is:
Code:
grep -r -e 'muss beantwortet'
, returned:
Code:
locale/de/de.mo
locale/de-informal/de-informal.mo

Questions:
Is /local/de/de.mo the appropriate file to change the notice?
Which is the right way to edit this file, since it is a binary?

Many thanks and kind regards
Wilhelm
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6 years 6 months ago - 6 years 6 months ago #159823 by Joffm
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Hello, William,

to change the wording you have to download the *.po file (de.po) here: www.limesurvey.org/community/contribute/translations-status

This can be edited e.g. with "poedit" ( poedit.net/ )

Saving the file automatically creates the de.po and the de.m, which you upload to the locale-folder.

The look and feel of the red notice should be changeable by a bit of css
At the moment there is only:
Code:
.questionvalidcontainer .text-danger {
    font-weight: bold;
}

So either in "template.css" or directly in the question text add your desired changes, like "color:yellow", "font-style:italic", etc.

Best regards
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6 years 6 months ago #159824 by tpartner
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More about modifying the translation files here - manual.limesurvey.org/Translating_LimeSurvey

I would create a new translation so it won't get overwritten when updating.

Cheers,
Tony Partner

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6 years 6 months ago - 6 years 6 months ago #159825 by william71
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Dear Joffm and tpartner,
many thanks, your answer was really helpful!
Wilhelm

(thanks!)
Last edit: 6 years 6 months ago by william71.
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