Extending Choices for Questions in hrapplications to Allow Multiselect (#911)

An additional field at the question level defines whether the choices for the question are multi-select or not. The template will render the choices with radio buttons or checkboxes depending on multi-select. Multiple selected choices are saved with a line break between them.

hrapplications/admin.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class ChoiceInline(admin.TabularInline):
 
 class QuestionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
     fieldsets = [
-            (None,      {'fields': ['title', 'help_text']}),
+            (None,      {'fields': ['title', 'help_text', 'multi_select']}),
             ]
     inlines = [ChoiceInline]
 

hrapplications/migrations/0003_applicationquestion_multi_select.py

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Generated by Django 1.10 on 2017-10-20 13:51
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('hrapplications', '0002_choices_for_questions'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AddField(
+            model_name='applicationquestion',
+            name='multi_select',
+            field=models.BooleanField(default=False),
+        ),
+    ]

hrapplications/models.py

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from authentication.models import AuthServicesInfo
 class ApplicationQuestion(models.Model):
     title = models.CharField(max_length=254, verbose_name='Question')
     help_text = models.CharField(max_length=254, blank=True, null=True)
+    multi_select = models.BooleanField(default=False)
 
     def __str__(self):
         return "Question: " + self.title

hrapplications/views.py

@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ def hr_application_create_view(request, form_id=None):
                 application.save()
                 for question in app_form.questions.all():
                     response = ApplicationResponse(question=question, application=application)
-                    response.answer = request.POST.get(str(question.pk),
-                                                       "Failed to retrieve answer provided by applicant.")
+                    response.answer = "\n".join(request.POST.getlist(str(question.pk),
+                                                       ""))
                     response.save()
                 logger.info("%s created %s" % (request.user, application))
             return redirect('auth_hrapplications_view')