Solving technology problems, one at a time
When editing Questionmark Perception’s quiz templates, you will quickly find that you must not use the # symbol in hex color names, since Perception recognizes it as a comment. In redoing a complicated quiz template
Continue readingThe single biggest mistake I make REPEATEDLY in editing Questionmark’s templates is: ::drumroll:: adding in the # symbol in color specifications. Questionmark interprets the # symbol as a comment, and omits everything after the #
Continue readingSince we have no Questionmark Perception manuals at my office, most of my knowledge of Questionmark comes from trying out things in the application itself or digging around in the questionably organized Questionmark support site. (Any altruistic Info-Architects need a project?)
While so engaged one day, looking for an answer to something else, I found out I could have been importing multiple choice quizzes using Microsoft Word documents! Fortunately I haven’t done too many so far. Here are the directions:
The document must be formatted as a list.
Each question is a level 1 line, each choice is a level 2 (indent once). There should be no excess copy in the document, just
1. Question
a. choice 1
b. choice 2
c. choice 3
d. choice 42. Question
a. choice 1
b. choice 2
c. choice 3
d. choice 4
etc.
Continue readingWe use Questionmark quizzing software at my job to create quizzes and tutorials. One of several issues we have had with it has been a login page which did not validate for the kind of ID number we wanted to use. In fact it did not validate at all! We were told that either it couldn’t be done because it would not work with the software (the login page submits some .asp variables), or it would cost us to have it done by their programmers – so we set about trying to make it happen.
The problem was that it uses the onSubmit event to trigger some fancy new window actions. I wanted the validation to take place and stop the new window action as well as the “submitting” action itself. So my first thought was to put a standard validation script on an onBlur event. In other words when people moved the cursor from the validated field to the next field, the validation would occur.
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