More Mailbag stuff

Dear Sir

The free account has certain constraints for sure like:

1. If you mark questions as required, navigation using back and next is messy.
2. We cannot download reports or upload questions.
3. Logic can be designed for page, not individual questions.
4. Questions cannot be numbered, or % completion not shown.
5. Question types are very limited, for instance, we cannot pose constant-sum questions.
6. There is a bug in formatting question fonts/spacing once posted (try pasting from a word doc, cannot undo the style easily).


Hope these design-related, and other software-related issues will be considered in evaluation.
Abhijit

My response

SUre they will.
What does 'cannot upload questions' mean? Even with the pro version of zoomerang, we would copy paste questions and answer categories from the MSword questionnaire soft copy.

Even the pro versions provide skips to pages and not to questions. It is not really a limitation because a page can contain just 1 question.

Question numbering is tricky. Don't know about % completion, have myself never used it.

Of course since all groups are working under the same constraints, it will be the same for everybody.

When we (i.e. I and the Acad associates) do send you the final questionnaire websurvey for data collection from your respective networks, we wil provide you a link from the ISB professional account at surveymonkey.com, so a lot of the limitations will hopefully be mitigated.

Another email:

Hi Sir,

Can we have conditional jump when entering a page?

For example, I would like to skip say Q10 depending on response to Q3, without any changes in between.
How can I program that?
The questions have been arranged as per a logical order, and it does not make much sense to have the current Q10 after Q3.

Please advise.
S

My response:

Hi S,

You certainly can have conditional jumps when entering a page.

SO if you wanted to have people who picked a particular response option in Q3 to take a few additional questions, have them skip out to a new page where Q10 and 11 are presents and after Q11, skip out unconditionally (i.e. regardless of the response they choose) back to Q4. Other people from Q3 would proceed directly to Q4 (which would have to be in a new page because you are skipping to Q4 from Q11).

It sounds more complicated than it is. The logic is straightfwd when actually programming these things

Hope that helps

Sudhir.