Custom Question Views (New in 3.0 )

Custom Question Views (New in 3.0 )

Custom question views (New in 3.0 )

Note: This is a temporary feature to be replaced in the future by question object (it will be very easy to move custom views to question object). It is disabled by default.

As of version 2.5, you can create template-specific custom views for questions and some of their incorporated elements. This is useful if you want to modify the HTML layout of a particular question type for one or more surveys.

  • In application/config/config.php, find 'config'=>array and add this line to the array : 'allow_templates_to_overwrite_views'=>1
  • In /{your_template}/config.xml, set "overwrite_question_views" to true
  • Copy application/views/survey/* to template/{your_view_directory}/survey/
  • Note that you only need to copy the files that you intend to modify but the file structure must remain the same as in application/views/survey/

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