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.

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.

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

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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