Questions feed

The Questions feed returns question data to the client. The Questions feed includes a connection to related AssessmentQuestionLinks, Choices, Outcomes, Assessments, Answers, and JTADimensions.

This page includes the following sections:

• Properties
• Relationships to other feeds
• Atom attributes
• Typical OData commands
• Example XML entry
• Default record

Properties

The Questions feed includes the following twenty properties:

Relationships to other feeds

The Questions feed includes six relationships: a participant can be linked to one-or-more outcomes, one-or-more choices, one-or-more assessments (via assessment question links), one-or-more JTA dimensions, and one-or-more answers.

This allows the client to see all outcome, choice, and assessment data for a given question.

Atom attributes

The Atom field <title> is populated with the question description.

The Atom field <updated> is populated with the finished time of the batch in which the record was imported.

Typical OData commands

Questionmark's Results API uses the Microsoft implementation of OData and thus supports all the commands found at:

OData: URI Conventions

Typical OData commands and examples of these commands that can be applied to the Questions feed include:

$filter

$filter=Wording eq 'Where is Calgary located?'

$filter=QuestionStatus eq 'Beta'

(As shown in the chart here, 'eq' means 'equal.')

#orderby

$orderby=Author

$orderby=QuestionStatus,RevisionNumber

Example XML entry

Default record

The Questions feed includes a default record that is used in instanceswhen data from certain records does not have an assigned value. If you're creating reports from records in this feed, you will see one more record than you expect, this extra record being the default record. To filter out the default record from any reports you generate, filter to only include records that contain a QuestionKey with a value greater than 0. The default record is: