Dear scientific community,
i am thinking about to start a survey, which is based on the Analytical Hierarchy Process (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_Hierarchy_Process). This approach requires the survey software to support some complex logic (matrix question type with predefined values; formulas for inverse numbers for the bottom left part of the matrix; consistency check in the background).
To avoid the javascript coding efforts i thought about a workaround, replacing the webbased survey/questonaire tools with the simple Excel File Attachmenent. The target audience are experts anyway, so the survey is not for anyone.
Did someone have practical experience with survey realized throught Excel and Mail? I am worried about Firewalls blocking the Attachment and the User Experience (scrollable excel instead of web forms).
I would be glad about any experience, whether the Excel-based approach was successful for survey approaches or not.
Thank you a lot in advance.
Kind Regards
Dimitri