vanschelven/epiwork-website — Issue #13: Changing surveys w/o creating new tables
Author: vanschelven
Created: 2011-11-29 20:41:56+00:00
State: open
Labels: new-feature

Currently changing surveys is a cumbersome process.

Specifically: a number of changes that do not actually change the data format (such as: validation, extra possible result values) _do_ create a new table in the DB and move all your data to an "old" table.

It would be great if you could make these kind of trivial changes on the live server without being worried.

Specifically, if creating new tables is undesirable, it should be possible to make that undesirability explicit. If the action is not possible without recreating the tables it should simply fail to go ahead, if it is it should go ahead without creating the new tables.