Co:?; Enq:?; Loc:?; Q:?; ETy:?; iVis:?;

The question: [question title]

in all my enquiries

(if so) This follows on from Q: [QTitle] if answered: [QItemShort]

[QDescrip]

Possible responses

[QItemShort 1]

[QItemLong]

[existing follow-on QTitle]

New follow-on question

[QItemShort 2]

[QItemLong]

[QItemShort 3]

[QItemLong]

[QItemShort 4]

[QItemLong]

The answer can have [only one option|multiple options].

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In these enquiries, this is how I am asking this question or not

Essential in [EnqName]

Essential in [EnqName]

Desirable in [EnqName]

Considering asking in [EnqName]

Not asking in [EnqName] (button for) ask it!

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My own answer to this question asked by others (1 of 4, QAccept)

(if unconsidered) I have not decided whether to answer this question: consider answering

(if unanswered) I have not yet answered this question: give answer

(if answered) My answer is: [MyAns]

(if refused) I have refused to answer this question: reconsider

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(if allowed) I want to suggest a modification to this question.

Diagnostics: ?

Information required and sources

Key: {QID}; information from {QDetails}

• {QTitle}
• If dependent, {QTitle} and {QItemShort} of broader question
• {QDescrip}
• list of
• {QItemShort}
• {QItemLong}
• For each Enquiry {EnqID} where question asked
• {EnqName}
• {EQGrade} – essential; desirable; considering; unasked
• {QAccept} – unconsidered; unanswered; answered; refused
• if answered {MyAns} ← {MyAVal}

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Pre-processing

• Find if this question is dependent on a broader question, and which
• get list of which other enquiries user is asking this question

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What the user is doing

Setting or modifying the wants for this question in the given enquiry, while at the same time being aware of own answer status

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Post-processing

• If the change button is pressed, change that part of the current enquiry
• outdate and grey out the number of correspondences

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Information output

• New wants for that question. Note: check they are really different before changing anything.

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Issues

Note that the question/wants form will be different from the Q/A form. Usually a Q/A form has radio buttons for a single answer, whereas Q/W form has check boxes for each acceptable answer.

Dependent or follow-on questions

The point here is that asking the follow-on question only makes sense in the context of a particular answer to a wider question.

I have to document some good examples.

Date of question

We should show the date of origin of this question, and some way of seeing previous versions.

Multiple answers

We will try allowing multiple answers. The person asking an essential question has to choose between:

• some overlap is required (non-zero intersection)
• exact match is necessary (Q:set equals A:set)
• must include all selected (A:superset to Q:subset)

For desirables, as opposed to essentials, the first two options above would use the simple metric of +1 for each option checked by both sides. If an exact match is desired, then the metric could be +1 for each option that is the same, checked or unchecked, on both sides.

The following two conditions are logically possible, but are probably too confusing to use reliably.

• any of selected but no others (Q:superset to A:subset)
• exclusions (zero intersection)

It is probably better to deal with exclusions though binary questions.

The key question is, is it easy enough to define as many binary questions for all the options, or are there distinct advantages for a set being grouped together?