Developer Options

The Question Tools Developer Licence allows you to create lessons, surveys and tests which can save results using Active Web Pages. In addition, these is nothing to prevent you from producing a lesson, survey or test multiple times to exceed the 5,000 limit—it is just that these results will not be put together for analysis.

Animation

Text Areas, Shapes and Pictures can be animated using the Developer Edition. These animations work in Editor, Exam, and all of the supported web browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, FireFox, AOL, Mozilla and Opera). More...

Substitute Language files

What happens when your customer wants the results to say Yes and No instead of True and False? The answer is that you can replace all of the text used in surveys, tests and lessons from a single text file. You need to copy the lower half of the language file from the folder at:

C:\Program Files\Question Tools\Languages\

Copy the bit from here <output> to here </output>.

Logo and Logo text

You can replace the Question Tools logo and logo text using the Results Tab of the List Inspector. If you want, you can enter an html link as the logo text.

List settings files

If you have a Screen List called MyList.qtl then you can add a plain text file in the same folder and call it MyList.txt. This text file can contain some specific settings that only the Developer Edition will look for.

Results colours can be set like this:

<phpColours>"f5f5e5", "e9f4ed", "ee4444", "eeee44", "44ee44"</phpColours>

If you misspell phpColours then it will ignore your entries. The first two entries in the list determine the two background colours used in the results. The next three determine the colours the bars turn at different levels.

Colour breaks determine the percentages at which a bar changes colour. You MyList.txt file need to have a setting like this:

<colourBreaks>40, 70</colourBreaks>

In this example the colour of the bars will change at 40 percent and 70 percent. If you want you can add further breaks, but if you do this you must also add further colours to the phpColours list otherwise you will get php errors.

Classifying results allows you to separate different results in the data. The easiest way to explain it is with an example. Imagine we have created a pre-test screen with a menu named 'School' and an Answer Field named 'Class'. If we add this line to our MyList.txt file:

<classifyResults>['School', 'Class']</classifyResults>

...the results will be classified according to the selections users made from School and the entries they made into the Class field. This means that we can look at the results overall, but also at the results for specific groups. There is an example of this on the Question Tools web site.

Group passwords for Active Web Pages

Group passwords allow you to set passwords for different portions of the data. They only work on the first level of the data, and so in our example, they can only apply to the entries users make in the School menu. You can attach a text file with a list of School names and passwords. It must be a plain text file called MyList.gpw. In other words, it must have the same name as your Screen List, and be in the same folder, but it should end .gpw.

It should take this format:

qtAll TAB mypassword TAB otherpassword

cromwellhighschool TAB crompassword TAB anotherpassword

blueberryinfantschool TAB headteacherpassword

The file needs to list the possible entries the user can make (but with spaces removed and reduced to lowercase), and then a list of passwords that can access that data separated by tabs. The qtAll line at the beginning lists the passwords that have access to all of the data.

This may at first appear daunting. But it is quick and simple to use once you get the hang of it, and it is very powerful. One password can be given access to a number of portions of the data, while others can be restricted to single portions.

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