This project was part of Sahana Eden ​Google Summer of Code

Executive Summary

• Abstract: In the aftermath of a natural disaster, it is imperative that the extent of the damages be evaluated in a timely manner. Enter stage right, Survey Tool: A tool to create, manage, and enter surveys to assess the needs of the peoples affected by the natural disaster to deliver the much needed aid in an efficient manner.
• Implements BluePrintSurveyTool
• Student: ​Robert O'Connor
• Mentor(s): Michael Howden, Mark Prutsalis and Gavin Treadgold

Architecture

• Templates make up the survey then questions are added to the template.
• The template is then added to a series.
• The series is what you enter data for.

Question Types

Type	Rendered as	Example
Text	Text Field	Person's name
Number	Text Field which disallows non-numeric answers	Number of persons affected
Date	Text Field with a date selector on focus	Date of Assessment
Long Text	Text Area	Building Status

Creating a Survey

• From the front page -- select "Survey Module"
• Go the "Template" menu and select "Add"
• Fill out all details.
• Click "Next"
• you can either: select questions that are in the system or click "Add Question" and the question will be added to the dropdown and selected for you.
• Click "Save."

Creating a Series

• Go to the "Series" menu and select "Add"
• Fill out all details
• click "Save"
• Go the List page
• click "Answer" to fill out the survey or "Results" to view results for that series.

Outstanding Issues and/or bugs

• Drop-down menu doesn't update when the first question is added to a template but does once you reload the page via "Add Question" popup.[happens sporadically]
• Apparently it doesn't like questions that start with the letter "B"haven't been able to track it down yet
• cannot re-order questions (yet!)
• deleting questions is touch/go -- actually non-existent I think.. I don't remember.
• adding more may or may not work.
• No configuration exists at current -- but will in later versions of this project. Keep an eye on ​Post-GSoC branch
• More question types are planned but work is necessary to support them.
• Support for sections is something that would be great to have -- but not sure how to support this with CRUD forms...

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