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You are now warned!

07.12.10 | Permalink | Comment?

The CallWeb script compiler now issues polite warnings in addition to brutal error messages. A warning is an observation that something found in a script may not be a good idea but is not troublesome enough to be an error. Warnings include:

leaving a project without access control;
two instances of the same pound instruction;
the presence of [...]

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A simpler way to insert a title in a table

07.10.10 | Permalink | Comment?

SUFFIX questions are not limited to building tables but they are a very quick way to create a series of questions that share a response set and that can be displayed in table format.
It is sometimes useful to insert a title row in such a table, as shown in the image to the right where [...]

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More control over children

07.08.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Today’s release of CallWeb adds two options to the definition of RELATION questions which define hierarchical projects. These options (”erase_question” and “erase_code”) allow the confirmation of the deletion of child records in such projects. Without them, deletions are performed without confirmation.

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Help with Autoemail

07.01.10 | Permalink | Comment?

The Autoemail pound instruction is complex. It requires several parameters and some of them are complicated logical expressions. Moreover, if it is not written correctly, it can wreck havoc and send thousands of messages to people who are not supposed to receive them!
To help with these challenges, the cwemail module has been equipped with a [...]

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Great advice on building HTML e-mail messages

05.24.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Invitation e-mail messages formatted in HTML are clearly more appealing than text-based messages. It used to be that I would recommend against them because they would more likely be caught as spam, but an expert from CritSend has assured me that this is not the case anymore.
One complication brought about by HTML e-mail messages is [...]

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Allowing participants to unsubscribe

04.19.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Why would you want to facilitate the life of survey participants who want to unsubscribe from further notifications sent by e-mail? There are a number of good reasons why:

it can increase the sense of trust between the participant and the survey manager;
it can reduce the risk that a participant flags an invitation message as spam, [...]

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Flexi Buttons

04.06.10 | Permalink | Comment?

A new recipe was posted in the CallWeb Cookbook. It is recipe C6 and it concerns the ability to make buttons that adapt to the context of the questionnaire. For example, a submit button that reads “Submit” on the last page of a questionnaire or that reads “Submit Section 1″ at the end of Section [...]

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Playing with cookies

02.09.10 | Permalink | Comment?

CallWeb possesses the # Control By Cookie instruction since 2007. If set to YES in an Open project (one that is not controlled by access code), this instruction ensures that only one questionnaire can be opened by a given browser on a given computer.
This feature was improved yesterday. Now, # Control By Cookie stores the [...]

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Perfect colour schemes

11.30.09 | Permalink | Comment?

In preparing a new Web questionnaire (where looks count), I often find myself wondering which colours I should use for various visual elements of the page, such as the font, the border, the buttons, the titles, the tables, etc. Up to now, my strategy has been to blow up the logo of the organization for [...]

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CallWeb can use all alphabets

11.22.09 | Permalink | Comment?

For years, as CallWeb’s main developer, I have professed that CallWeb supports only “european” alphabets, that is single-byte alphabets. Well, Andrew Hough from R.A. Malatest and Associates Inc. proved me wrong.
Andrew showed me that it is possible to simply copy double-byte text (such as Corean or Japanese) from Word or from a Web page and [...]

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