Survey element types

Elements building a survey are divided in two types: "question" or "format".

The semantics which distinguishes between "question" or "format" is this: a "question" is the form element providing what remote user submitted, "format" is ONLY a form aesthetic element.

Questions such as formats differ each other by plugin.

There are some question plugin provided with survey such as a some format plugin too.

So hierarchically a survey is done by:

• Survey form
  • elements
    • element type questions (shortly called "questions")
      • question plugin 1
      • question plugin 2
      • question plugin ...
    • element type formats (shortly called "formats")
      • format plugin 1
      • format plugin 2
      • format plugin ...

Questions

• question plugin age (shortly called: "Age" question type)
• question plugin sutofill (shortly called: "Autofill" question type)
• question plugin boolean (shortly called: "Boolean" question type)
• question plugin checkbox (shortly called: "Check box" question type)
• question plugin date (shortly called: "Date" question type)
• question plugin datetime (shortly called: "Date and time" question type)
• question plugin fileupload (shortly called: "Attachement" question type)
• question plugin integer (shortly called: "Integer" question type)
• question plugin multiselect (shortly called: "Multi select" question type)
• question plugin numeric (shortly called: "Numeric" question type)
• question plugin radiobutton (shortly called: "Radio button" question type)
• question plugin rate (shortly called: "Rate" question type)
• question plugin select (shortly called: "Select" question type)
• question plugin shortage (shortly called: "Short age" question type)
• question plugin shorttext (shortly called: "Short text" question type)
• question plugin textarea (shortly called: "text area" question type)
• question plugin time (shortly called: "time" question type)

Formats

• format plugin fieldset (shortly called: "Fieldset" format type)
• format plugin label (shortly called: "Label" format type)
• format plugin pagebreak (shortly called: "Page break" format type)