I am using Google Forms. 5 questions within the Google Form use the dropdown question type, and there are more than 160 answer options within each of the five dropdowns. This is really not user-friendly. I'd like to be able to organize the dropdowns with tabs by alphabet (A-D, E-H, etc.) so it's less visually overwhelming to the user.
I'm just getting started on this problem. There are no Forms add-ons that would solve this issue. I know I need to write code for the 5 items, but this is not my strongest area.
Google Forms doesn't include a way to do this. I think that your best bet is to build a form by your own i.e. by using Google Apps Script's HTML Service.
If you do a search it's very likely that you will found some hacks like copying the source code of the respondent view of a Google Form. That was easier on old Google Forms that were based on pretty basic HTML and JavaScript. Nowadays it's a lot harder to do something like that because the source code (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) is being generated by other code.
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I think I'm a bit late, but the way I found to get over this was by creating first group of answers that led to 5 other second groups of answers. Make one section containing the first 5 possible questions, than make other 5 sections to re-direct depending on wich section the person answering chooses.
Example:
Section 1 (make it a one answer only single column multiple choice type)
What time is it?
a) 7am (make it lead to Section 2 if marked)
b) 8am (make it lead to Section 3 if marked)
c) 9am (make it lead to Section 4 if marked)
d) 10am (make it lead to Section 5 if marked)
e) 11am (make it lead to Section 6 if marked)
Section 2 (make it a dropdown type)
2.a) And how many minutes?
a) 7:01
b) 7:02
c) 7:03
etc etc
Section 3 (make it a dropdown type)
2.b) And how many minutes?
a) 8:01
b) 8:02
c) 8:03
etc etc
And keep up until you are done with all the sections. It's overwhelming for you, but as you said, you only cared about how it would be for the ones answering it, and I guess you are right about it.
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I would like to make a page of a 2 Days event schedule.
It has 4 stream lines.
I've searched for event plugins, but I can't find one does exactly what I want.
One session is about one hour and has a organiser, and 4 streamlines run from 9 to 5.
Is there any suggestions?
After trying different plugins, this is the best one for me:
https://webnus.net/modern-events-calendar/
I think this website is used for exchanging information, before spending a lot of time.
I will post this answer for the people who might have the same question as me.
How's it going?
I've found a lot of more detailed answers relating to specific problems relating to RSS feeds, but I can't really figure out how you USE one, basically.
Could someone explain?
I see the RSS feed icon at the top of a lot of Wordpress sites, including my own, but when I click it, it just seems to be a long XML file. I don't know what to do with it, or even why it would be there.
How do you use this? Are you meant to hit it with an API request, or is there a particular kind of software that you use?
Cheers
Before telling you what RSS, let me describe you a common problem that many people have.
Say there is a bunch of sites that you really like and it's sort of a
daily routine for you to go thru them. They may be a news site, your
friend's blog, but also craigslist bcause you're currently looking for
a new house and maybe a weather site to know how late you should stay
at work :)
The first thing you do when you get to work, is open your web browser
and these sites in new tabs. It's not particularly cumbersome because
there are just 4 sites. But think about it: maybe there is a new blog
that you start to like and ho, these cartoons are really funny. Maybe
there is also a bit of financial info that you're interested in and
the pictures that your brother is posting to Flickr every couple day:
they just had a new baby! Also, as you're trying to buy a house, you'd
love a little raise and you've figured that your boss really likes it
when you tell her that you've read about your company in the news or
when you tell her about a new competing product... There is also
StackOverflow. You're desperately trying to get this "expert" badge
and boost up your reputation: this may help with your boss too or even
when you're looking for a new job.
Opening all these tabs is starting to take a toll and you keep
forgetting an important one. You're also slowly getting tired of the
different reading experience that all these sites have: small fonts,
large fonts, ads all over...etc. Now you have a problem.
Imagine there is a tool that does the following: you can tell it what sites you care about, and then, this tool will look up the new stuff for you. It will show everything in a nice looking format. It should also help you identify what's really worth seeing ASAP or maybe have some kind of "serendipity" mode that you can go into and find interesting stuff that you would have missed otherwise. The tool will obviously send you to the original sites should you need more info about any particular story or classified...
This tool exists. It's usually called a Reader, mostly because it lets your read more things online. Often times you'll see them called "RSS reader", because RSS is what they use to get the information from all these sites. RSS is the pipe. You as a user should probably not know about it, but that's what the readers depend on. In an ideal world, when you're on site you like, you should just hit "follow" on a button like this one and then you'd be redirected to your reader of choice. Later when new content is added, you'll get it straight in your reader.
To get a bit into more technical details, RSS (like Atom) is an XML flavor. It's a collection (mostly reverse chronological) of entries. Entries have at least a title and a link to the actual story. They should also include a unique identifier and could have other elements like a description, an image, tags, author information... etc.
RSS is great because it's content agnostic. It can be used to represent a lot of different things (as described in the little story) and decouples the publishing platform from the subscribing platform: they don't even know the other one exists. RSS is their lingua-franca.
I wrote a blog post about this very question not long ago. Here's the link if you're interested in reading my personal interpretation. https://www.rss.com/whatisrss
An XML file is all the content of a page, with no markup. The XML represents the data in its rawest, most descriptive form. Many readers can interpret XML sources from a variety of places, and format all of the data in its own unique way.
I'm currently looking for a way to make a dynamic checklist-type document for my job to be used for software upgrades. Right now, we have a generic Word checklist that has all the steps for upgrading a client's software, but due to its nature, not all steps apply to each client, and to list all possible options would make it difficult to navigate and difficult to use, which goes against its purpose.
What I'm looking for is a way to input information (checkboxes, drop-downs, and text fields), and based on that information, produce a list of tasks in some format that is user-readable. For example, if I check one box to indicate that they have a certain feature installed, then add 3 items to the task list.
Is InfoPath the right tool for the job, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
From what you describe, I'd say InfoPath is a very good choice for your project. My first thought would be to work in two different views. The first view would be for your people to input the information about what features are installed (there can be hidden content that only shows if certain answers are given, making it less unwieldy than your Word form). Then I'd have another view designed for printing out and giving to the client, containing only the task list info derived from the data in the first view. Bark away!
I want to create a dropdown of RSS feeds and users can pick and choose the feeds they want and a custom feed would be created. Is this possible using straight up HTML and java script or do I need a server technology. There are 7 separate feeds so the possible combinations are 7! - far too many for me to individually code into if statements and separate feeds. Is there a program that will generate the possible feeds for me automatically after I update one of them? Then I could just upload the updated xml files.
Right. So I set up my xml files, say I have one for birthdays, one for deaths, and one for mid life crises. So that is three xml files with three separate links for rss feeds. Now what I want is for people to be able to check off the ones to which they wish to subscribe rather than hitting each one separately. So I would have a form with three checkboxes and a submit button. I could do this with javascript by having 6 separate xml feeds, one for each possible combination. But if I have 4 feeds then I need to set up 24 feeds, and 5 would be 120 possible feed combinations.
So the question becomes, is there some software or library that will either handle this computation for me and crank out RSS mixes/blends similar to what some RSS mixing software seems to do. The problem with the services and software I have seen is that it provides blending for people subscribing to feeds but not for providers. I can see in my head how easily this could be done programmatically even though it would spit out alot of xml and html/javascript.
I guess another way about it would be for them to sign up for multiple feeds simultaneously but I'm not sure if that can be done.
If I am making no sense I apologize. I have never seen this done so it might not be possible. I am just going to go with the page with a bunch of RSS links.
Thanks for everyones responses. I appreciate it.
Just because there are 7 options doesn't mean you need to write 7! if statements. You only need to check if each one of the options is set, and output something appropriately.
So, yes, you need to do this server side. And it's not at all difficult.
Where are you stuck, specifically? Your question is missing a few details.
We're currently working on a solution that involves managing a large number of parts for a project. In our database, we have a project table and we have a parts table. Those parts can be assigned to multiple projects and vise-versa. This is done through a link table.
We're happy on the database side and it wont be changed, however we're a bit stuck on how to display the UI in a user-friendly intuitive way.
There are about 6000 parts (...at the moment) and we need to be able to easily assign/unassign these parts from a project quickly and easily.
Does anyone have any good examples of this?
I have always found real-time filtering to be pleasant to work with and narrow down things. This can require your users to be somewhat computer literate though...
Furthermore I would consider something with D&D. I would imagine two lists (one with projects and one with modules) where I can multiselect on either list and drag a single item from the other list to that selection.
And if it is going to be an interface that's going to be heavily/repeatedly used, consider good keyboard support. Me personally find that repetetive tasks can be done MUCH faster if they can be accessed by hotkeys.
Just thinking out loud ...
There are two distinct parts to this. The first is selecting parts and projects from the database and the second is associating parts to/from projects. You should try to avoid doing both actions in a single dialog.
From your post, it appears that parts can be assigned to projects and that projects can be assigned to parts. So, a wizard approach might work:
project or part?
/ \
select project select part
| |
show list of parts show list of projects
| |
add/remove parts to project add/remove projects to part
When showing a list of projects/parts, use a simple, sorted list with a filter box. Using a tree or other categorised system can be ambiguous for the user. For example, if the list was of foods and there were categories for fruit and vegetable, where would you put tomato? A shopkeeper would probably put in in vegetables whereas a botanist would put it in with fruits. So, a simple sorted list with a search box (like FF's about:config) works surprisingly well.
I'd try a number of things, from a pure UI point of view, if your collection falls naturally into categories, I'm a big fan of cascading lists or a sortable, filterable grid. (or both combined)
Your choice will depend on your users computer literacy as well as space or technology constraints.
If you can spare the space, I think that two lists, perhaps selected items on the left, and the collection of items on the right with affordances such as checkmarks or >> << buttons are great.
I'd probably take a page out of Excel's book, it has some perfectly workable examples of this sort of thing.
I'd also take the time to add multi-level undo, working with large datasets is an absolute pain as a user when you have no recourse for simple mistakes, it should ideally track and handle whatever fiddly interaction your user needs to make.