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Table design help!
Fred - first off thank you for being so patient with me! I really do
appreciate all your help. In answer to your questions: 1. It's a bit difficult because I have so many different types of question (yes/nos, multiple choice, multiple choice where they can choose more than one answer or add their own answer, and open questions where they can write whatever they want). The questionnaire is not designed brilliantly (don't even get me started on that) so it's pretty difficult for any question to make a list of allowable answers as people have written a whole bunch of things. So I suppose what I'm saying is no, it's probably very rare that I could anticipate and tell the database what the allowable answers are for each question. 2. I think I do want it to know the "if then" linkages if that's possible? 3. No, it doesn't have to guide the person answering them. It'll be me inputting the data and I quite honestly have dreams/nightmares about it so I'm pretty sure I know inside out what comes next! 4. No, the participants will only take one survey. There are several fields with information on the person. 5. No, I don't have a real world numbering system for the people. I'm not worried about tracking the people (beyond being able to link them to their questionnaire) so I hadn't thought about a numbering system. 6. There isn't a naming/numbering system for the questionnaires as such. There are eleven different types of questionnaire (so I suppose I have names for the category of questionnaire) but I hadn't made a filing system for them yet. Our plan had been to number and file them according to the numbers used in Access. 7. The questions are numbered in real life but badly (some follow up questions don't have a number). It isn't unique across all questions or even the questionnaire itself (some questionnaires have 3 parts each with questions 1,2,3). I hope that's helped answer your questions and apologies if I've given long winded/unclear answers to anything. Thanks again for all your help. "Fred" wrote: Also: 5. Do you already have a real-world numbering system for people (Like PersonIDNumber) 6. Do your already have a real world naming or numbering system for the questionaires? 7. Do you have a real world numbering system fo the questions. Is it unique across ALL questions, oor just across the questions within on questionaire? |
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