ordering (ranking) select

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Issue by mitchellsundt
Thursday Jul 09, 2015 at 17:27 GMT
Originally opened as getodk/getodk#135 (1 comment(s))

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Originally reported on Google Code with ID 134

Slide up/down for ranking of items (perhaps enable/disable individual items for "N/A"?)

Reported by mitchellsundt on 2010-10-11 17:31:38

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Comment by mitchellsundt
Thursday Jul 09, 2015 at 17:27 GMT

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just checking:  can rank / ranking be integrated into ODK survey design in any other
way?  it's such a fundamental type of survey question, it seems like it would have
arisen before....

Reported by edwinadkins.ei on 2011-12-06 15:09:53

[grzesiek2010]

@lognaturel I was free so I've just started work on this I hope it's ok for you.

[grzesiek2010]

It can look and work like:

It's just a prototype and I've used SelectMultiWidget for that so I have to investigate how to solve that on the Javarosa side.

[lognaturel]

I have filed getodk/xforms-spec#104 to explore how this can be added to the ODK XForms spec. Seems like a good thing to experiment with since it is something users ask for from time to time. One thing that jumps out to me is that it might be clearer that these are rankings if there were fixed numbers on the left that items could be dragged next to.

[grzesiek2010]

@lognaturel it's possible

[danbjoseph]

is there any reason the drag and drop interface might be a challenge for certain user or device?

thinking about the swipe versus arrow button option for survey progression. should it be considered (and is it technically feasible) to have an alternative/additional interaction option? for example, press the number and get a dropdown list to select the rank number.

just brainstorming here. this would be a great addition, thanks for working on it!

[danbjoseph]

apologies, not sure what i clicked to do this

[grzesiek2010]

thinking about the swipe versus arrow button option

I started work on this a year ago (but I had lots of more important things to implement) and now I'm going to return to this issue like in next month.
Your proposal is interesting I'll take it into account reviewing this issue again. Maybe your idea is even better since it's always a challenge to implement such a drag and drop functionality in a widget (which is scrollable too) - at least in older android versions.

Thanks for your idea.

[smoyte]

One question I can add in passing -- is there any guidance in Material Design guidelines about this type of thing?

[lognaturel]

Good question @hooverlunch. The best I can come up with is the reorder list control - https://material.io/guidelines/components/lists-controls.html#lists-controls-types-of-list-controls. Not sure whether it would be helpful or not to explicitly add that reorder icon since it's not very intuitive and would only be helpful to someone who knows Android design well.

[lognaturel]

Forum discussion at https://forum.opendatakit.org/t/collect-question-type-rank-items/12568 to maximize visibility.