Entities

• Interface: ISurvey

• Survey is the main class of AskiaCore

• All none global entities are stored within a survey

• An instance of Survey represents an access to a specific real life Survey with a given Context

• Interface: IQuestion

• Full documentation page: Questions

• Questions are stored within a Survey

• Questions are more important than any other entity within a survey

• Questions define the default flow of an interview

• There are multiple types of questions

• Questions are stored in a tree structure

• Loops have a unique behavior with heavy interaction with its children questions in the tree structure

• Each Question creation generates 4 elements of different types:

  • Page

  • Question

  • Caption

  • Control

• Interface: IElement

• Full documentation page: Elements

• Elements are stored within a Survey

• An Element basically represent a visual bloc rendered when the interview is running

• There are multiple types of Elements

• The Elements are stored in a tree structure with specific hierarchy rules based on their types

• Elements are tightly coupled with Questions

• Elements do not define the flow of an interview but they define the way it is displayed

• Interface: IRouting

• Routings are stored within a Survey

• Routings are used to modify the default flow of an interview or to execute specific actions during that interview

• Routings are stored linearly based on their trigger Question and their order within that Question

• There are multiple types of Routings

• Interface: IResource

• Resources are stored within a Survey

• A Resource represents a media file added to the Survey

• There are multiple types of Resources

• Resources do not include Controls and PageTemplates

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