Gmane
From: Joel Palmius <joel.palmius <at> mh.se>
Subject: New stable release: 3.2.1
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.apache.mod-survey.general
Date: 2004-12-20 12:08:26 GMT (3 years, 42 weeks, 5 days, 14 hours and 46 minutes ago)
Well, it was skulking around in the cvs for quite some time, but as of now 
I feel that it is time to make a new stable release. Thus, you can now 
download Mod_Survey 3.2.1 from the homepage.

Power users will notice several interesting feature improvements in 
display and syntax, and most normal users will notice bugfixes and 
improvements in the data exports.

Heavy portions of the new code has been contributed as patches on the 
developer list, and for this release I would especially like to thank 
BugAnt and Martin Ertl.

The following is a summary of important user-visible changes. For minor, 
API and code-cleanup changes, please read the changelog.

SYNTAX/DISPLAY:

- The ugly forward-page style has been removed. The flip between one page 
and the next should now be instantaneous.
- New tag SUBMIT which supports writing the whole submit message inside 
the survey file, and submit-time perl snippets.
- New randomization features: A RANDOMROUTE tag for routing randomly to 
another page, RANDOM parameter in SURVEY for randomizing order of 
displayed questions, and SUBSET parameter of SURVEY for displaying a 
random subset of the questions in a page. 
- Persistance (save-and-continue-later) has been re-implemented and now 
works.
- Now possible to override language settings (for error messages etc) on a 
per-survey basis, via the new LANGUAGE parameter of SURVEY.
- PROGRES has been re-implemented to support a progressbar type of display
in the CUSTOM tag.
- Now possible to populate CHOICE and LIST with data from a DBI database, 
via the new sub-tags DBLISTELEMENT and DBCHOICEELEMENT.

EXPORTS:

- SPSS: If included, MEMO fields will be truncated at 250 characters
- SPSS: Optionally filter out MEMO fields
- SPSS: If a string value has no MAXLEN, it will be assumed to be at 
maximum 250 characters wide.
- SPSS: Major bugfixes for when downloading data in a file separate from 
the syntax script.
- CaseBrowser: Option for displaying only textual fields
- CaseBrowser: Replace ¤¤ with <br /> in output.
- HtmlTables: Option for replacing ¤¤ with <br /> in output (non-default, 
breaks excel)

AUTHENTICATION

- SECURITY tag now supports settings for authentication against a DBI 
database. 
- Now possible to override previous authentication via GET parameters.

   // Joel