I would like to configure my SurveyMonkey account so that when I create a new survey I am required to assign the new survey to one of an editable (by me) list of 'groups'. I would then like to aggregate reports based on survey 'group'.
SurveyMonkey seems to have a fixed list of 'categories', respondent 'metadata', and per-response 'custom variables', but I'm not seeing any kind of mixed metadata or custom variables at the level of a survey.
Does such a thing exist or is there a common workaround to achieve this?
There isn't currently a way to tag surveys. That would be a nice feature to have.
One possible workaround (although not ideal) is to set the Survey nickname or put an ID in the Survey title you can filter by when searching for surveys.
Another one is to set a custom variable on the Survey. Although these are normally meant as GET parameters when taking the Survey, you can use it to categorize Surveys as well.
One last thing is to add a question and use advanced branching if necessary to make sure it's always hidden to the user, and categorize based on that.
I do agree that a way to tag surveys directly, and then filter surveys based on a tag would be very useful but there is no current way to do that (as far as I'm aware)..
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I am building an application that pulls data for certain surveys from survey monkey. In my application, each survey is connected to an organisation. One organisation can have multiple surveys and each survey has only one organisation.
When I pull the data for a survey (GET request on /surveys/{id}/details) I would like to be able to add the organisation id to the survey monkey response, so that I would know to which organisation is that survey connected. Is there a way to add a custom variable of this type on survey monkey ?
If adding a variable of this type is not possible, what is the best way to solve this problem ?
There isn't a good way to tag surveys in the API right now. Survey folders may be supported in the future which will allow you to move a Survey into a folder for each organisation.
In the meantime, you can add custom variables (URL GET parameters) to a response (assuming you're using a weblink collector) which would let you know which organisation that response belongs to. You need to add the custom variables on the Survey, then when sending out the weblink add the parameter, something like:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2Q3RXZB?organization_id=<org_id>
Or if you're using an email collector you can put extra fields on the recipient (or custom fields on the contact, if the contact is always in that one organisation) that let you know which organisation they belong to.
Another option (which may not be very great) is setting a nickname on the Survey which could be checked against when fetching the associated survey, see the Survey API docs.
the list of SurveyMonkey API Methods does not appear to include a method to modify an existing survey. Is this right? Are there any development plans to include such a method? For a project, we want to be able to modify a presentation type question and add custom questions to a standard survey.
thanks
Correct. For now there is no way to modify an existing survey, just create new ones.
Regarding upcoming API features, it is unlikely SurveyMonkey would comment publicly on these, but if you are potentially a large API partner you could reach out and ask about this functionality via api-support#surveymonkey.com.
I'm wondering how to assign two users to one task in JIRA. I took over a project that was set up by someone else. The problem is we are doing pair programming and we would like to keep track of time.
I dont think you can not actually assign two users to field assignee as it is built-in field.
You can create new required field e.g. pair-assignee and have pair tracked there. Here is a doc about how to setup a custom field.
By design, this is not possible as such - it's a single value field.
But there are ways around this limitation.
Since a number of people had this question, Atlassian has set up a page for the possible solutions/workarounds.
First of all, I want to apologize for my terminology. I am not entirely sure what to call what I am looking for, so I can’t google for answers. But here is my problem.
I am working on a Rails application that stores information about different websites and provides various services for them. I will call these services ‘Products.’ One website can be subscribed to several products, and a product can be served to various websites. So here is a very simple association scheme for these relationships:
At least, it would have been simple, but the problem is that the Settings model (shown in red on this diagram) is different for each product: for one product, it will have one number of fields and data types, for another it will have a different number of fields with different data types. On the other hand, the Faq and Description are the same, so if I redraw the diagram as follows:
I will get another problem: too much repetition (shown in blue on the diagram). Ideally, I want some kind of modification of the first diagram, where the Product model will choose differens Settings models depending on a parameter that I pass to it:
So that a request website.products.find(1).settings will return the model Settings1, while a request website.products.find(2).settings will return a completely different model, Settings2.
Is this achievable in Rails? If not, how would you organize such data?
This is more of an application design question then a specific Rails question. I'm trying to implement a system like "labels" within Gmail. So I want a user to be able to apply a label (or many) to a specific post. However, I also want the user to be able to manage labels using standard Rails CRUD.
Let's say I have a model called Post. So a user has many Posts. A user can create labels which is a separate model from Posts, but these can also be applied to posts with the use of checkboxes in the Post new/edit views. If a user deletes a specific label, it simply gets removed from the Post view and doesn't affect the Post in any other way.
This situation shows my lack of knowledge of db relationships, but is this a case for a has_many_and_belongs_to_many relationship?
If so, would the following design be the way to implement this?
User has_many Posts
User has_many Labels
Post has_many_and_belongs_to_many
Labels
Label has_many_and_belongs_to_many
Posts
Maybe I'm over thinking this and my logic is way off.
You have to decide whether or not you want tags to be "owned" by people or just "used" by people. In gmail, my labels are very specific to me. In SO the tags are not specific to me even though I can create them.
If you want labels as opposed to tags then yes.
User ---< Label
Label >--< Post
User ---< Post
You can define these in English if you want.
A user has zero, one or more Labels
A Label is used by one and only one user
A user has zero, one or more posts
A post is created by one and only one user
A post has zero, one or more labels
a label is applied to zero, one or more posts
I wouldn't say you've over-thought this CONCEPTUAL data model.
From your question, it seems like you are trying to build a taxonomy system (i.e. tagging model). You may want to check out Acts As Taggable On as a possible solution (or just an interesting modeling reference) for your problem.
It sounds like you could implement this functionality through tags. Check out this post for a list of tagging plugins and gems for rails.