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Tricks, Update information
Simplify a large prepop task
Have you ever had to prepop dozens or even hundreds of fields in a CallWeb project? It can be quite the chore. Wait! You should learn about a new feature in cwprepop.cgi: this module can create an scw script off your data to simplify and secure your life. Read more about this in a new [...]
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A simpler way to insert a title in a table
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 [...]
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Allowing participants to unsubscribe
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 [...]
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Flexi Buttons
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
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 [...]
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ALL POSTS, Tricks, Web-specific
Perfect colour schemes
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
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 [...]
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MySQL error 139
If you encounter a situation where CallWeb is incapable of inserting data in a record and reports a data base engine error 139, here is what is happening. You have hit a limit in the InnoDB engine of MySQL (the data base system that CallWeb uses): there is too much text in too many open-end [...]
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Control your progress bar
The questionnaire progress bar is a complex beast: it has to be positioned on the page, it has to be given a colour, a size, etc. Because it is an important object in questionnaires and for respondents, a lot of attention was given to allowing control over its appearance. Two new CallWeb cookbook recipes have [...]
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Setting up a portable stand-alone CallWeb station
07.02.09 | Permalink | 2 CommentsEarlier, I wrote about setting up a $400 Asus eeepc 901 as a stand-alone portable CallWeb station. The eeepc weighs 1 kilo and has real battery life of 3 hours. This is a very portable and inexpensive computer that’s a fine tool for face-to-face interviews (although one wishes for a touch screen); it provides enough [...]
