I just finished integrating the Jetfire Quiz into the system. The quiz that I wrote using the Jetfire scripting language was quite simple:

• What is your name? __________
  
• Are you over 18? (yes/no)
  
• Select an age category: 18 to 25, 26-35, 36 – 45, over 45
  
• How often do you go dancing in a year? ___
  

From a code perspective, the Quiz is a set of Questions and Answers. Answers may be text, numeric, yes/no, a selection from a list, date and time, and duration.

A new Web Control is provided (in the website) to iterate over the list of Questions and Answers, providing the user with the ability to input answers. The quiz can be viewed using this custom control.

The real reason for this blog is to brag about just how simple it is to write your own Quiz. My friend, Mo, wrote a quiz in 30 minutes this morning. Mo owns a Print shop in Ottawa, has a Computer Science degree from over 20 years ago and hasn't programmed in a whole lot of years. Mo is a smart guy, but not a programmer. He needed a little bit of help with syntax, but since he uses Excel extensively, he was a natural to write his first Jetfire workflow.

Since I hit him cold with "you are designing a quiz right now", most of the time was spent formulating the questions and answers about the travel quiz that he wanted to write. His travel quiz includes the following questions:

• What was your favorite destination? ________
  
• Select your Sex: Male, Female
  
• Select a destination: North America, Europe
  
• Select an age category: Under 18, 18 – 35, 36- 50, over 50
  
• How often do you travel in a year? ____
  

Less than five minutes later, I had the privilege of being the first to fill in his quiz.

Sound like fiction? With Jetfire, you upload the Jetfire code and start using it immediately. This is possible because Jetfire is a scripting language and re-uses the Question and Answer Web Control described above.