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Soundings 2 Preview Release

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Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 07-06-2007 | 4,935 views

I've got a preview of Soundings 2 available for folks who want to test. This release just adds one feature - multiple questions per page. You can't set the number of questions per survey - it is a global Application setting. It only works for true/false and yes/no questions. If you use any other type of question, it will not work. I'm looking for:

  • Confirmation that the pagination works
  • Some feedback on the UI in regards to how errors are displayed. Right now you get a bold message above the question, but I'd like to see if this could be improved
  • Actually, I'd like suggestions, or just the cleaned up HTML, for ways to make the questions look a bit better now that they are on the same page

What else will ship in 2.0? You will be able to set the number of questions per survey, with the application setting being the default. Bug fixes for surveys with deleted questions. And a real good idea for my biggest Soundings tester - you will have the option to remove questions from reports. This means if your 10 question report has 3 questions about personal info, you can remove this from the report and focus on the questions that are important.

Anyway, the zip is attached to this entry.

For folks who may not know what Soundings is - it is a simple ColdFusion based survey application. Like SurveyMonkey, just cooler because. Um. Because it's ColdFusion. There ya go.

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Chris said on 07-06-2007 at 5:38 PM #
What about multi-user options. (Where when someone logs in, they see their surveys only)
Raymond Camden said on 07-06-2007 at 10:13 PM #
No, but you can restrict surveys to particular email addresses.
Chris said on 07-07-2007 at 6:32 AM #
Well, what I was talking about is having each user create their own surveys and when they log in, have them be able to just see the surveys they created.
Raymond Camden said on 07-07-2007 at 7:35 AM #
Ah, no. That would be more a 'hosted' survey type thing. You could build that with Soundings of course. I am considering such a thing, but it wouldn't be an update to the core product, it would be a custom install of the product.
Chris said on 07-07-2007 at 10:00 AM #
Sounds good! Can't wait!
Gareth said on 07-08-2007 at 12:55 PM #
I was checking out the SQL creation and was wondering why you decided to use UUID as the id for all tables instead of using a numeric value?
Raymond Camden said on 07-08-2007 at 3:32 PM #
Becuase, prior to cf8, it is a pain in the butt to get the ID of the last inserted row. Well, not a pain, but a pain if your code supports multiple types of dbs.
Raymond Camden said on 07-09-2007 at 12:50 PM #
So has anyone tested this yet?
Niall said on 07-09-2007 at 4:21 PM #
Just installed, so will post feedback shortly ;-)
Raymond Camden said on 07-11-2007 at 8:33 AM #
Guys, please see today's post. A new build has been posted.

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