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Scheduled Maintenance
I'm going to be upgrading the Question Writer results server on the morning of Tuesday 2nd of December between the hours of 9AM and 1PM GMT. That equates to 4AM to 8AM EST, and 1AM to 5AM PST.
During this time, the online interface won't be available, and all new result sets will be directed to the backup server. No result e-mails will be sent during this time. Those result sets will be transferred onto the main server in the 60 minutes after the maintenance is complete.
This upgrade will result in an increase in capacity and reliability of the main results server. Please contact me at support@questionwriter.com if you have any questions.
Posted by Alexander on November 28, 2008 | Scheduled Maintenance| TrackBack
Scrollbar causing content to disappear
A recent release of the Adobe Flash Player (noted in version 10,0,12,36, the most recent version) is causing a problem with older Question Writer tests that require the use of the scrollbar to display content on some pages. When the scrollbar is clicked on these older quizzes using the newer player, the content disappears and will not re-appear.
To correct this problem, you need to re-apply the theme from the most recent Question Writer 3.1 version and re-publish your quiz. The new themes have new scrollbar code that corrects this problem.
This problem first appeared on the Macintosh Flash player but appears to affect the Windows Flash Player now too. We apologize for the inconvenience are contacting Adobe to try get the problem corrected in future Flash player versions.
Update: I've reported this as a backward compatibility bug with Flash Player 10 with Adobe - here's the link
Posted by Alexander on November 11, 2008 | Scrollbar causing content to disappear| TrackBack
Question Writer Results In Your Own Database
Here's something useful - a small PHP application that allows you to have results from your Question Writer quizzes written to your own MySQL database.
You can download it here.
It comes with installation instructions, but you'll need to be able to set up a database and upload some files to your webserver. It stores the data it receives in two tables - one table for the quiz results, and one table that stores the responses to the individual questions. Once the data is in your database, you'll need to decide what to do with it.
I'm not sure on the minimum requirements for use yet but I've kept it pretty basic - you won't need anything more than MySQL 4+ and PHP 5+ and you might well get away with less.
Posted by Alexander on November 8, 2008 | Question Writer Results In Your Own Database| TrackBack