enquiry-edit: from:
enquiries-of-type;
answer-or-not;
correspondent;
enquiry-basics;
enquiry-location;
enquiry-response;
established;
examine;
invitations;
move-to-contact;
my-answer;
my-answers;
my-answer-enqs;
new-question;
;
enquiry-edit: from:
enquiries-of-type;
answer-or-not;
correspondent;
enquiry-basics;
enquiry-location;
enquiry-response;
established;
examine;
invitations;
move-to-contact;
my-answer;
my-answers;
my-answer-enqs;
new-question;
;
Co:?; Enq:?; Loc:?; Q:?; ETy:?; iVis:?;
In my own words, what I am looking for:
(shown only to established contacts)
[EnqNote]
My location for this enquiry:
[LocName]
You cannot choose where the other person is, because you are not giving your own location.
where they are is not vital to me
(within km of mine)
Diagnostics: ?
This is one of the vital, central pages of RegenCHOICE. This is where a single enquiry is prepared for trial. The same enquiry works either for active search, in which users change what they want, and answer more questions, until they find correspondence; or passive search, where users record what they have and what they want, and leave them on the system in the hope that an active search will correspond.
#A stands for the number of people have answered the question;
#W stands for the number of them that have answered it in a way that meets essential wants.
If my location for this enquiry has been set to "anywhere", then "their location" will be unalterably "anywhere".
New question links only appear if the number of correspondents > 0
Note also that wants for each question to not appear here, just numbers of correspondents and other
See enquiry info
Key: {EnqID}
for the enquiry itself and its location:
questions in this enquiry: {EQList}
answers muted to this enquiry
Feedback is by comparing number of correspondences resulting. It can be expected that the user remains focused on this page for some time, iterating between changing something on a different page, and returning to this page to try the enquiry. Questions can be moved between essential and desirable without leaving the page.
The problem here is different statuses for sub-Qs. Qs cannot be displayed both hierarchically and grouped by status. This may invalidate the note about repositioning. The other possibility is that one can duplicate a Q, greyed out, lower down the scale. Also, if an essential is downgraded, any sub-Qs are downgraded with it.
Possible answer: when essential is downgraded to desirable, sub-questions are flattened out. Sub-questions may appear together with or separate from their super-questions. When a question is promoted to essential, any super-question must also be created as essential, along with the answer required for that sub-question. Different super-question answers may be needed by different sub-questions that are made essential. This is only allowed if multiple answers to the super-question are allowed.
A possible alternative approach would be to have all the questions in one clump, but distinguished by colour.
The up ↑ and down ↓ arrows simply move a question between the sections in the obvious way.
↓ moves the question down into the next group, ↑ moves it up.
deletes the question.
The last category acts both as a starting place for new questions,
and as a kind of bin, ready to delete.
Obviously, if the alternative layout is used, we need something more like a pop-up confirmation to change grade.
Think, that even if I have loads of correspondences, and therefore I cannot move on to examining correspondents, I might be invited by someone else.
Muting is also done through the my-answer-enqs page as well as the enquiry response page (if recognising that
This needs to be thought through quite carefully. At present, I think that a person keeps a set of locations, and can name them. "Anywhere" is always a possible location, meaning that it does not matter, as meeting in person is not important. Each enquiry is associated with a particular location for self: often simply "home" or "anywhere". Statistics are given for how many people have answered proximity requirement.
If "my location" is mobile, proximity is always essential, so no radio buttons, and max distance is given in smaller units. Anyway, maybe have a simple check box, when checked reveals a field for max distance?
Question trees for essential questions are relatively easy. But not so easy, how to deal with question trees for desirability, and how that is calculated.