Introduction

Settings

Please refer to the Application settings of QCAT.

Questionnaires

A questionnaire consists of several objects which themselves can have multiple child objects. This represents the hierarchy of the questionnaire.

The elements of a Questionnaire are:

1. Questionnaire: The top node of the questionnaire, represents the entire questionnaire.

2. Category: A (thematic) group, corresponds to a single step in the questionnaire form.

3. Subcategory: Another element for grouping inside the category.

4. Questiongroup: A group of questions which belong together.

5. Question: A single question consisting of a key and value(s).

6. Key: The key of a question.

7. Value: The value of a question.

8. Links: Links to other questionnaires.

Most of the elements of a questionnaire can have a configuration of their own, stored in their configuration field in the database. However, some of the elements allow overwriting part of their configuration in the Questionnaire configuration.

The following table indicates which objects allow configuration in the database and which can have their configuration defined or overwritten in the Questionnaire configuration.

	Configuration in DB	In Questionnaire
Category	No	Yes
Subcategory	No	Yes
Questiongroup	Yes	Yes
Question	No	Yes (only in questionnaire configuration)
Key	Yes	No
Value	Yes	No

Todo

Questionnaire configurations can inherit from another one. This needs further documentation.