Displaying random questions from the backend

Question

Hi,
Is it possible to randomly select a question and display it on the page with different options. Say for example, if I have a question and that has three values as answers which are to be displayed in radio button style, will it be possible to display it dynamically by selecting the values from tables?"
The questions and the options are stored in the table.

Answer 1

Hi Suzi,
Radio buttons can appear vertically or horizontally on a page - to set them horizontally, you need to specify "Number of columns" on the radio item's definition. As you won't know exactly how many items there will be, you can just set this to the highest possible number of options.
When the page is submitted, you should have the question number (created using the random number generator I mentioned before) plus the value of the option selected - this would be the return value for the item rather than the display value, so if the user sees "Yellow", but the return value is "1", then the item is set to 1 not Yellow. How this gets onto the database will depend on how you have set the page up. Most likely, you would just have a simple page process that does something like:
BEGIN
INSERT INTO ANSWERS (QUESTION, ANSWER) VALUES (:P1_QUESTION, :P1_ANSWER);
END;This should be conditional on a Submit button
Andy