Ability to add No Duplicate - Rate question to personality test

Ability to add No Duplicate - Rate question to personality test

by Virgil Ashruf -
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We have a personality test that has questions in which the learner must prioritise between four topics. The question type rate set to noduplicate fits the interaction precisely. However each topic ranks in a diferrent feedback section. It would be nice if we could add the noduplicate rate type to the multiple feedback sections ability in the plug-in; and even further to be able to select a different section per topic in the rating question.

To give some more context:


This is a question has four topics on the y-axis. And four scores/ratings on the x axis. The learner must choose one of the options for each of the topics. The first topic, analysing something, scores in a different colour then the second topic.

My first question is; would it be a lot of development to get this functionality inside the plug-in? Furthermore, does this need a revamp of the "assign a question to a section" functionality, as it specifically needs to be able to set a rating topic to a feedback section.

My second question is; would you be able to do this, or guide me in the right direction so that I can add the functionality myself? I've already found the following check:


Is the precise property a key element in this functionality? Where else would I need to make changes for this?

And as a question for the other side: why wouldn't I want this using the questionnaire plug-in?

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Re: Ability to add No Duplicate - Rate question to personality test

by Virgil Ashruf -

I have found out a bit more about the structure of the plug-in. Thusfar I have found that each question is linked to a feedback section. What I want to achieve is that of the noduplicate rate type each choice can be labeled into a feedback section.

I am able to render the categories for each choice per noduplicate. I find that I now have to think about storing this information. I can hack something together that'll work, but will probably not fit the bigger picture of the plug-in. I need some additional information on the plug-ins numbering system.

I see that the question to fbsection ordering is stored serialized in the database in the following format:

a:5:{i:1;N;i:2;N;i:10;N;i:11;N;i:12;N;}

I derive that the 5 stands for the total number of questions. And that the next part identifies the question id's that are counted towards this fbsection. Because I assume when I change something in this dataformat; I will positively break something elsewhere where this data is used to calculate the feedback from the actual responses. Without even knowing what. How can I add the choice id to this information without breaking the rest?

I learned about serialize and see that the i stands for integer followed by it's value. N is null. The first a says it's an array of size 5.

Anyway. This somewhat answers my question. I need to change this storing mechanism if I want to be able to use individual choices for different fbsections. My then question is: what else do I need to change to use the new and improved dataformat that I'm going to come up with? The saga continues.

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