jleivo

Thanks a lot once again for your quick response. I will follow your instructions.

Thank you for your rapid response. I still need a bit guidance on what to do with the old participants database directory and its contents if I copy the new 1.5.4.1 on the server. I have all my pages and data fields defined somewhere there and I would not like to lose them (the data as such is on my computer in a safe place in the form of a .csv file ready to be uploaded, alright). Sorry for this beginners problem, but I am not willing to take any risks. (I guess there is no simple patch for the problem I presented in my previous mail, but I just have to upgrade the 1.5.4.1?)

General instructions -> “Download the zip file, and unzip it on your computer. Upload this directory (participants-database) and its contents to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory on your web server”.

Hello,

I have used your great plug-in for a social sciences survey; it has been an excellent tool for this purpose. I am now in the phase of uploading the survey results back to the database so that each participant can see their own scores. Only participants themselves know their private_ids and no mail addresses nor other identification data were asked to guarantee participants’ anonymity. I am not sure if I should start a new thread, but my problem is similar to the one in this thread: I’ve tried to upload (import) my results (.csv file), but the private_ids change on every upload. So I decided to delete all records from the pdb and re-create them from scratch by uploading the .csv file. This did not help as all private_ids were re-generated again. Do you have a simple fix which simply copies private_ids (without generating them) when uploaded from a .csv file into an empty database? I am using WordPress 3.8.1 and pdb 1.5.4.(I actually managed to do this somehow with one of the previous versions of pdb few months ago).

Thank you in advance.

Thank you for your prompt response. It is now clear that there is no easy way out and that’s what I wanted to know. And though I got an M.Sc. in Computer Sciences few decades ago and having mastered assembly level languages, even machine code, I am not familiar with contemporary software languages. But based on this background the task to learn to use Javascript or AJAX is not unthinkable. So I will look into it. And don’t worry, your plug-in is excellent even without this feature and as it is so easy to use, it makes people lazy, me included, not willing to use any more sophisticated tools!