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Hello,
I am running XE5.5 and the publication will be on CDROM,

Q1) Does anyone have a particular methodology to produce a detailed scores overview at the end of a test.The test score detail needs to include what the question was and whether answered correctly or not.Ideally I would like to present this information to the user with the option to print but also to write the score detail to a disk file if the publication is being run on a server.

Q2) Is there any way that the score detail could be emailed to the adminstrator/moderator of the course.
Your help will be much appreciated and could save me days of work using variables to try and achieve a working model
Regards
John

Hi John

The way I have done this in the past (and it is a fair while ago that I did this) is to store the question in a variable and store the answer in another variable as well as the correct answer in another variable and store the score (right or wrong) in another variable.

The output page is quite easy in that you use the 'insert variable' in text option to show the test candidate how they fared.

There is probably an easier way to do what you ask, such as writing olutput to disk and then retrieving output line by line but my problem is that my Institute locks down the server so hard that not even temp files can be written to disk unless the application has permission to do so.

I have no experience regarding emailing of results and would be interested in learning about this aspect of your two part question.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Graham

Hello Graham,
Thanks very much for taking time out to reply. I am going to have a go with your method however you have come up with a really good point - 'server clamp down' - must admit I hadn't thought about that aspect and I will need to find out whether the target server has such restrictions in place. The email scores bit - perhaps I should add this to the forum wish list.
Once again thanks
Regards
John

It is possible to save your score results as a variable to a text file then at the end of your quiz, use the email action to send the saved text file as an attachment

I have a similar end page set up to what Graham suggests and the only downside to this is that the email client generates a box asking whether or not you wish to send the file. If you can be sure they will say yes then it is what you are looking for!

Edit... If you wish, I can supply a copy of my question/answer pub when I get back to work.