Question

Questions (and possible answers) for symptotrack.org.

Defaults

You can add defaults for questions & groups in the defaults directory. Defaults for questions can be based on question type and/or question variant.

Look in the defaults config file for a list of current/supported defaults.

Basic question config

required

You can add required: true to a question to make it required

required_answer

You can add required_answer: <answer> to inputs (all but multiselect & coordinates) to force user to enter a specific answer. This is currently used for forced checkboxes.

other

You can add other: true to a question to enable submission of string input instead of the questions type based data

Conditions

You can add conditions to questions to make them only appear when a specific answer was given to another question.

For instance, to make a question depend on the answer true to question do_you_like_coffee you could do this:

"how_many_cups_did_you_drink": {
  "type": "integer",
  "min": 4,
  "max": Infinity,
  "conditions": [
    {
      "question": "do_you_like_coffee",
      "answer": true
    }
  ]
}

For convenience we also support the not_answer key.

Types & variants config

Types define the type of answers (boolean, string, etc). Variants define a variant of a input and enable you to set some defaults for variant only.

coordinates

An array with length 2 containing 2 floats (latitude & longitude)

bool

A boolean is true or false, filter can be passed to indicate that we want to be able to filter by this datapoint

integer

A number without decimals

• min: minimal value that number can be
• max: minimal value that number can be

float

A number with decimals

• min: minimal value that number can be, with decimals
• max: minimal value that number can be, with decimals

select

A select question has multiple possible answers but only one answer can be given

• options: A list of options

text

Well, text

date

Well, date

multiselect

A multiselect, like select, has multiple possible answers and multiple answers can be passed

• options: A list of options

Questionaires

Each questionaire is defined in a config file in questionaires.

A questionaire is a group of questions:

{
  "name": "basic",
  "groups": {
    "group_tag_1": {
      "recurring": true,
      "questions": {
        "question_tag_1": {
        },
        "question_tag_2": {
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

When a question group is recurring, the questions it contains will be asked again when a respondent returns to update a filled in questionaire.

Questions can be configured like this:

"year_of_birth": {
  "type": "integer",
  "min": 1900,
  "max": 2020
},

"fever": {
  "type": "boolean"
}

"fever_degrees": {
  "type": "float",
  "variant": "temperature",
  "conditions": [
    {
      "question": "fever",
      "option": true
    }
  ]
}

Translations

All questions, answers and groups can be translated. you can add files to the translations folder in a questionaires folder.

Errors

You can translate the following error tags:

• required: field is required but no value passed
• out_of_bounds: number field received number outside of min/max
• invalid_option: (multi)select received value that is not an option (and field did not support other)

Groups

For every group, you can tranlate:

• title: Title of the group
• next: Button to continue to next question group

Questions

For questions, the question and answers can be translated

• question: The actual question
• answers: translate the question tags here
• skip: if question is not required, translate the skip button
• other: translate the "other" option, allowing respondent to input string
• placeholder: placeholder for inputs
• tooltip
  • question: question for tooltip
  • answer: actual tooltip description

A translation of a question would look like this:

"fever_degrees": {
  "question": "How warm are you? in Celcius"
  "skip": "i don't know",
  "other": "Type your answer"
}

Using this as a module

get_questionaires()

Returns a array of questionaires found in repository

get_questionaire(name, only_recurring = false)

Returns a config object for questionaire, with defaults merged in for every question that did not specify some properties

it's possible to pass only_recurring, which will only return questiongroups that are "recurring", meaning they have to be filled in on subsequent responses from the same respondent.

get_questionaire_translations(name, locale)

Returns a config object containing all translations for questionaire, with defaults merged in all unspecified keys

get_error_translations(locale)

Returns config object containing translation of error tags

validate(questionaire, data)

Validate a data object based on the questionaire

This function will return a sanitized data object on success (with keys removed that are not part of the questionaire)

It will throw a ValidationError on encountered errors, error tags are contained in the fields property of this error object

{
  let questionaire = symptotrack.get_questionaire('test');
  try {
    validate(questionaire, {});
  } catch(err) {
    assert.propertyVal(err.fields, 'year_of_birth', 'required');
  }
}