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Factories

Factories are use to generate and manage global objects (everything that is not within a Survey).

This topic contains the following sections:

Survey Factory

  • Class: SurveyFactory

  • The Survey Factory is used to create, access and delete Surveys.

  • It also contains the Survey cache allowing to retrieve data without necessarily querying the database.

Context Factory

  • Class: ContextFactory

  • The Context Factory is mainly used to generate an empty context representing a session-like object.

  • The context will then typically be filled with information and passed down to all the different functions.

Language Factory

  • Class: LanguageFactory

  • The Language Factory is used to manage all the existing languages of the world.

  • It is usually used to retrieve the global list of Languages and does not allow any form of editing.

Controls Factory

  • Class: ControlsFactory

  • The Control Factory represents the library of Controls the user has access to.

  • It is the source from where users can add Controls to Surveys.

PageTemplates Factory

  • Class: PageTemplatesFactory

  • The PageTemplate Factory represents the library of PageTemplates the user has access to.

  • It is the source from where users can add PageTemplates to Surveys.

Themes Factory

  • Class: ThemesFactory

  • The Themes Factory represents the library of Themes the user has access to.

  • It is the source from where users can add Themes to Surveys.