Make more than 99 elements in "SVG as selection" Item available?

Question

I would like to implement the Geneva Emotion Wheel (GEW, https://www.unige.ch/cisa/gew) as an item in SoSci-Survey. To do this, I used the item type “SVG as selection” and created and uploaded an SVG graphic according to the instructions.

However, the GEW-graphic requires 122 elements (20 emotions with 6 options each + 2 additional options), but in Sosci-Survey I only have the option to define 99 elements. -> Would it be possible to increase the maximum number of elements?

Further on, to my understanding the Element-IDs are assigned randomly. Would it be possible to read the labels out of the SVG-graphic? This would also facilitate export and import of "SVG as selection" items, because the labels stay identical.

Answer 1

I am afraid, the limit of 99 items per question is fixed. However, there are two other ways you may want to go.

1) You may try the "Visual Placements" question type, calculating the emotions from the X-Y-coordinates will be no challange.

2) You may want to create the question by using JavaScript and just store the result to SoSci Survey, using an internal variable.

3) If you take a look into the source code of the page with "SVG as selection", you'll see that all the options are just added by ....registerMarker(...). You could just add more JavaScript code to circumvent the 99 items limit.

to my understanding the Element-IDs are assigned randomly.

It is your SVG editor which creates the IDs. Some editors like Inkscape allow editing the names at will.