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 [...]

Several exciting new features have been made available to CallWeb in the last few days. CallWeb cleans project name supplied in URLs so that extraneous characters like periods do not interfere with its operations. This solves a problem produced by some e-mail clients which append a training period to a URL. We added the NOPRETEST [...]

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; [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]