I am building a Qualtrics survey in which each respondent is supposed to see a subset k (e.g. 30) of a larger set of n questions (e.g. 60). These questions all have the same format but a different text, which I will have stored in a local .csv (or similar) file.
EDIT 2: Explicitely looking for a solution that does not require inserting all the n texts manually in the Qualtrics interface.
What is the best way to import these contents into the questionnaire?
1) One way from the Qualtrics documentation is to import a survey as a .txt file or Qualtric's .qsf format, as described here: https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/survey-tools/import-and-export-surveys/#PreparingASimpleFormatTXTFile
The problem with building a .txt file from scratch is limited in functionality, and you cannot go back and forth between changing things in the Qualtrics editor (e.g. add more functionality) and in the .txt.
The problem with .qsf is that it is hard to understand and manipulate, as detailed in this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/47381526/10483692
2) Qualtrics' "Loop and Merge" function allows you to loop over (and randomly select) a large number of inputs. But as far as I can see, one has to insert those contents manually.
3) I suspect that there might be another way with via embedded variables, which one might be able to set with Javascript that can be included in "Look and Feel" > "General" > "Footer". But I am not sure whether it is worth going down that road given limited knowledge of Javascript.
P.S. I am assuming the best way is to include all n questions in the questionnaire when building it and then randomly select k questions when a respondent enters the survey. Let me know if there's a way of importing k questions while a respondent is doing the survey.
EDIT 1:
As I currently do not have API access, this is unfortunately not an option.
You can probably do it with one question in a loop & merge block. Generally, you would copy and paste your csv data into the loop & merge field setup and pipe the loop & merge fields into your question.
EDIT 1:
In response to updated question, there are two ways to make the n texts dynamic.
Use a web service to populate embedded variables from an external
source (e.g., a database), then pipe the embedded variables into the
loop & merge setup.
Populate the n texts as embedded data fields in a contact list, then
pipe the embedded variables into the loop & merge setup (would
require use of email invites, personal links, or authenticator). n
texts would be defined on a per respondent basis.
Approach (1) is more likely what you would want to do. In either approach it becomes a bit trickier to process the resulting response data since you would have to cross-reference the question answers with the embedded variables.
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I am trying to write a program which can automatically fill in and submit a form in a web in particular time slot.
But i have no idea how and where to start. i searched this in google, but only resulting very general answer like using JavaScript, python. Can anyone tell me which languages should i learn first?
Despite the fact that the generic advice on this thread is quite good, it's pretty broad. I have tackled this problem myself, and despite the fact that I posted a fully functional example, it was deleted by a moderator, despite "theoretically answering the questions".
So, for anyone else looking to solve this problem, you will want to do the following:
Use Selenium and openpyxl, these are two modules that are relatively straight forward and will perform this task perfectly.
You will use selenium to open your web page, and retrieve the relevant html elements that you wish to populate. I suggest finding elements by xPath if you aren't well versed in HTML. The Xpath finder google chrome addon will make this very easy to do.
The driver.get() and driver.find_element_by_xpath() will be the functions that you need.
We will use openpyxl to work with our excel sheet. 'load_workbook()' will load a workbook. We will then use the 'sheet = workbook.active' function to access a sheet from within the workbook.
We now have the functionality to open our website and select an excel sheet.
Now we need to assign cell values to variables, so that we can then populate the HTML form. We assign a variable to each COLUMN in the workbook. So if column A contained first_names we could assign that to by a variable by writing 'FNAME = sheet['A']. Now that we have a way of referring to cells within columns we can begin feeding the data into our HTML form.
We populate our form by using the .send_keys() function in Selenium.
first_name.send_keys(FNAME.value)
the .value makes sure that the correct value is displayed, as sometimes selenium will print the cell function rather than value, we do not want this to happen.
Now that we can print values to our HTML forms from our excel sheet we will need to iterate through each row. We do this with a simply while loop:
i = 1
x = 1
while x <= 50:
first_name.send_keys(FNAME[i].value)
i+=1
x+=1
driver.quit
Once the loop occurs 50 times, the driver will quit, closing the browser and stopping the script.
Some other misc stuff you may find useful when trying to automate this:
driver.back()
time.sleep()
If you would like to see an actual working example feel free to PM me, as apparently posting it here doesn't contribute to the discussion.
The answers you found, as general as they are, are correct. I'll try to explain it to you.
As you are trying to automatize some activity, you have to use a script language to basically
Get stuff references (like getting indexes, forms/fields IDs, etc)
Insert/change stuff (like filling a field, following the field references)
Save stuff (prepare a file, with field references and it's content, that can be injected to the specific system or website)
One example of script language is Python.
So you already have your script. Now you need to inject it on the page. The programming language that can do it for you is Javascript, or JS. It allows you to talk with the webpage, GETting data/references or POSTing data.
I suggest you to write a Python script using a library called Selenium Webdriver.
It will be easy to implement what you have in mind.
I am an amateur programmer and I want to make a mulitlingual website. My questions are: (For my purposes let the English website be website nr 1 and the Polish nr 2)
Should it be en.example.com and pl.example.com or maybe example.com/en and example.com/pl?
Should I make the full website in one language and then translate it?
How to translate it? Using XML or what? Should website 1 and website 2 be different html files or is there a way to translate a html file and then show the translation using XML or something?
If You need any code or something tell me. Thank You in advance :)
1) I don't think it makes much difference. The most important thing is to ensure that Google can crawl both languages, so don't rely on JavaScript to switch between languages, have everything done server side so both languages can be crawled and ranked in Google.
2) You can do one translation then the other, you just have to ensure that the layout expands to accommodate more/less text without breaking it. Maybe use lorem ipsum whilst designing.
3) I would put the translations into a database and then call that particular translation depending on whether it is EN or PL in the domain name. Ensure that the webpage and database are UTF-8 encoding otherwise you will find that you get 'funny' characters being displayed.
My Advice is that you start to use any Framework.
For instance if you use CakePHP then you have to write
__('My name is')
and in translate file
msgid "My name is"
msgstr "Nazywam się"
Then you can easy translate to any other language and its pretty easy to implement.
Also if you do not want to use Framework you can check this link to see example how it works:
http://tympanus.net/codrops/2009/12/30/easy-php-site-translation/
While this question probably is not a good SO question due to its broad nature. It might be relevant to many users.
My approach would be templates.
Your suggestion of having two html files is bad for the obvious reason of duplication- say you need to change something in your site. You would always need to change two html files- bad.
Having one html file and then parsing it and translating it sounds like a massive headache.
Some templating framework could help you massively. I have been using Smarty, but that's a personal choice and there are many options here.
The idea is you make a template file for your html and instead of actual content you use labels. Then in your php code you include the correct language depending on cookies, user settings or session data.
Storing labels is another issue here. Storing them in a database is a good option, however, remember you do not wish to make 100's of queries against a database for fetching each label. What you can do is store them in a database and then have it generate a language file- an array of labels->translations for faster access and regenerate these files whenever you add/update labels.
Or you can skip the database altogether and just store them in files, however, as these grow they might not be as easy to maintain.
I think the easiest mistake for an "amateur programmer" to make in this area is to allow the two (or more) language versions of the site to diverge. (I've seen so-called professionals make that mistake too...) You need to design it so everything that's common between the two versions is shared, so that when the time comes to make changes, you only need to make the changes in one place. The way you do this will depend on your choice of tools, and I'm not going to start advising on that, because it depends on many factors, for example the extent to which your content is database-oriented.
Closely related to this are questions of who is doing the translation, how the technical developers and the translators work together, and how to keep track of which content needs to be re-translated when it changes. These are essentially process questions rather than coding questions, so not a good fit for SO.
Don't expect that a site for one language can be translated without any technical impact; you will find you have made all sorts of assumptions about the length of strings, the order of fields, about character coding and fonts, and about cultural things like postcodes, that turn out to be invalid when you try to convert the site to a different language.
You could make 2 different language files and use php constants to define the text you want to translate for example:
lang_pl.php:
define("_TEST", "polish translation");
lang_en.php:
define("_TEST", "English translation");
now you could make a choice for the user between polish or english translation and based on that you can include the language file.
So if you would have a text field you put its value to _TEST (inbetween php brackets).
and it would show the translation of the chosen option.
The place i worked was doing it like this: they didn't have to much writing on their site, so they were keeping it in a database. As your tags have a php , I assume you know how to use databases. They had a mysql table called languages with language id(in your case 1 for en and 2 for pl) and texts in columns. So the column names were main heading, intro_text, about_us... when the user comes it selects the language and a php request get the page with that language. This is easy because your content is static and can be translated before site gets online, if your content is dynamic(users add content) you may need to use a translation machine because you cannot expect your users to write their entry in all languages.
I made a website for crowd-funding. I know that we should have used a platform for this. (other issues determined us not to)
The page that I have created has no database behind.
What I am trying to do is create some kind of hidden form that updates the sum that was raised so far.
I am not a very technical person but I do know that modifications made through javascript / jQuery ar usually temporary.
But, since scripts like website visit counters do exist I am wondering and appealing to the collective wisdom of this community:
Is there a way to update an attribute of a html element through some kind of hidden form without a database behind?
Perhaps writing to a .json file and updating the attribute from the data?
(I need to do this today as I will not be at the office during the campaign and it is very hard for a person that has no technical skills to do it... not that hard, but still, not user friendly.)
In order to display variable data, you need to get these data somewhere.
Do you have write access to your server file system?
What service level do you expect during data manipulation? Does it suffice if you just go and upload modified file every time manually?
What about embed in your Web page an IMG and then upload it with always the same name and different content?
There is a database even behind "dummy" hit counters, no magic.
Right now I'm planning out how to make a page that uses my own implementation of a spellcheck algorithm. This of course requires reading from a dictionary. I downloaded a text file of all the words in the English dictionary and my plan was to store them in a JavaScript array on page load. I understand that the better way to do this would be to use server-side tools -- write a script that places all the words from the text file into rows of a table in my MySQL database, implement the part of my algorithm that checks for the word by using PHP connected to that table, etc. -- but right now I don't have a good enough knowledge of server-side tools and I'm just making this page for fun anyways. I was wondering:
(1) Is what I'm trying to do completely idiotic (even though I've checked and verified that a JavaScript array will be able to hold all the words)?
(2) Is there any type of fast-lookup structure I can use in JavaScript, or does the interpreter a.k.a. broswer implement large arrays as a hash table or binary tree anyways?
(3) When I put <body onload="get_words()">, I want get_words() to return a variable that is the array of my words or I somehow want the function to create a global variable. How do I do this? Do I have to put something like <body onload="dict=get_words()"> ?????
I'm re-developing a very simplistic javascript include I made a while back to be used in several similar html sites. We use a lot of footers on our pages but they tend to be the same copy used over and over but with different dates and other small variations. So, on each page I create an array of variables. These match up with variables found in an external .js file containing a for loop to match up the requested variables that contain paragraphs of footer copy. This eventually is put together to make a div full of footer copy.
My question is this, is it better to send in the specific dates and other variable changes within the copy along with the variable array as one object or should i continue to just send in the variable array alone, create the footer in the html and then insert the dates/changing data in a separate .js file (this is how I've been doing it till now). One way keeps all the data together and seems pretty clean, but the other separates out the different steps (ie step one is creating the footer, the second step puts in the varying info like a date or bonus amount, etc).
sorry if this is confusing, hope i got the basic idea across. Just trying to explore my options since I have the unique opportunity of previous usage of this script and getting a clean slate to make a fresh version.
I think the best way to do this is on the server-side code.IF you are using php use could include the file directly like this.What include does is it pull code from other files and shows it on the page where the include is written.
include('name of file');
Since you have different pages with different footers you could edit this footer file to show different results for different pages.This is a standard way to doing things.Popular frameworks like Wordpress do something similar to this to display the footer