Using Drupal for surveys - looking for advice
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heather - Thu, 2008-07-24 22:39
Curious about any examples of people using Drupal to implement surveys of user groups on a site. Any experience of using Webform http://drupal.org/project/webform ? It seemed I wanted to be able to represent some of the information in Views, so I didn't want to use Web Form. I even wondered would it be better, going ahead, to use an external service?
So far, I've made a survey involving 25 questions using CCK fields, and 9 field groups which will be a muti-step form- since it's very long on the page. Just wondered if I'm missing any tricks.
Just have loads of questions about making a survey, how to manage it in the end... anyone have some advice about setting up a survey using Drupal?
Seemed like the place to ask!
Fieldgroup tabs, workflow, and views
Hello, heather,
I've implemented surveys using CCK and workflow and workflow access (to allow users to save partially completed surveys, and then complete them later)
Most of mine were shorter than what you are describing, though -- you could also try the Fieldgroup Tabs module to break up your form -- http://drupal.org/project/cck_fieldgroup_tabs -- while I haven't used this, it seems like it could be one way of meeting your needs.
The other way would be to check the issue queue of webform to see if there is any interest/ongoing work within webform to expose webform fields to views.
There's also the advanced survey module, but it is a little different (I think, anyways) than what you're trying to achieve.
Cheers,
Bill
FunnyMonkey
Tools for Teachers
i split up the tasks in the
i split up the tasks
in the end it was more of a headache to get it working fully with CCK.
in fact, webforms makes an output of data, has an 'analysis' option, and provides a download to .csv, and... generally it's a brilliant research tool!
maybe the only thing i wish i could integrate would be a node reference field. but i think it's just dandy now.