[Contrib: Evaluation System] If a survey is closed and then reopened it loses its original dates

Adam Marshall adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Mon May 17 03:49:45 PDT 2010


Aaron suggested that I ask the list's opinion on this matter. 

Some of our users have complained that when a survey is (temporally) closed and reopened the original closing dates are replaced by the default close date.

Say today is the 17 may (which it is). Set up a survey and change the default close date (say 20 may) to be 18 June, assign it to a group and so on.

Then go into the dashboard and close survey then go back and re-open. The survey close date will now NOT be 18 June but will be set to the default close date (20 may).

We find this to be counter intuitive and has caused problems with people not noticing that the close date has been silently brought forward.

I would propose that the original dates be kept when a survey is closed & reopened. Is there any good reason why this shouldn't be the case?

Adam


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