Documentation com_wwebsurveys

1. Description
2. A quick start
3. Question types
4. Question fields
5. Menu parameters
6. Results

1. Description

   com_wwebsurveys is a Joomla 3.x component for surveys.
   One-page and multi-page surveys are supported.
   

2. A quick start
   • Create a category/survey with the link on the left on the screen. A survey is in fact a category of questions.
   • Go back to the page 'questions'. Create a question via button 'new'
   • Select the type of the question, select the category/survey
   • Make a menulink to the the survey/category via 'Menu'
   • and ready ... you have now a survey with one question

3. Question types

   Type	Description
   text	normal text max 255 chararacters
   textarea	textarea max 64K chararacters
   radio	radio field, 1 option can be selected
   checkbox	check box field, more options can be selected
   pagebreak	pagebreak, for use in the multipage view
   heading	heading with text, no input field

4. Question fields

   Field	Description
   ID:	internal recordnumber in the database
   category/survey:	the category/survey the question belongs to
   ordering:	the order of the questions in the survey. The ordering can also be changed via drag and drop using the 3 black squares at the left of each question. Works the same as the articles.
   helptext:	when filled up a help tooltip is displayed after the question
   fieldname:	the columnname in the result table
   width:	only for types text and textarea, the width of the control in pixels
   options:	only for types radio and checkbox, list of options separated by a CR

5. Menu parameters

   Menu param	Description
   Category/survey	The category of questions. A category is a survey.
   Title	The title of the survey. Leave this field empty for omitting the title.
   Intro text	Introduction text just below the title. Leave this field empty for omitting the intro text.
   Check IP-address	Prevent multiple submissions via 1 IP-address.
   Check User ID	Prevent multiple submissions by a logged-in user.
   Only logged-in users	Only logged-in users are able to fill out the survey

6. Results

   The results can be viewed in the backend. The results of question types 'text' and 'textarea' are listed.
   The results of question types 'radio' and 'checkbox' are displayed in a pie chart.
   
   The results are exportable to Excel.