It's really not a good practice to ask 190 yes/no questions upon registration. A lot of the answers will most likely be random as very few would want to spend time answering 190 questions to complete a registration. My advice would be to not have that many fields.
On 25 Feb., 13:02, NoviceSortOf <dljonsson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have over 100 Yes/No questions asked in our registration process > These questions are mostly static (requiring minor modification every > 5-10 years), > we don't especially need a dynamic data driven solution. > > These Yes/No questions are basically the user informing us of their > specific > interests IE. Archeology [ ], Poetry [ ], Art [ ] and so on. > > In our legacy client-side application (we are coming from a mailorder > business started > in the 60s) we store these selections in an abbreviated comma > delimited character field ie > Interests = "Arc,Art,Lit". Using a comma-delimited char field in this > situation provides elegance on the data side, but of course we have to > parse the field coming and going in order to make it usable also > linking it to table that provides more human readable labels for the > abbreviations. > > I'm considering simply adding the 190 odd boolean fields to accomplish > this in profiles.models and the subsequent class needed in > profiles.views to add presentable labels --- but am wondering if more > of a data driven method may exist somewhere to > accomplish this, perhaps using a comma delimited char field? > > Or how are such large amounts of yes/no boolean questions made > manageable in Django? > > Any suggestion appreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
