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Release notes for Mad Blanks 1.8.0

Mad Blanks 1.8.0 is a component and set of modules for Joomla! that allows you to build:

• Quizzes
• Surveys
• Assessments
• Calculators
• Other specialized forms that need special processing

The following NEW features have been added in Mad Blanks 1.8.0:

• Add the ability to specify one option OR another as correct
• For radio buttons & check boxes, have options to choose from as normal, PLUS ADD a free form text box in same question
• Add language tags in Score Scripting to allow presenting Score Script output in more than one language
• Allow expression tag names in Score Scripts to use non-alphanumeric characters
• Add new general Score Script tags:
• The new sequence tag allows for automatically guiding a user to complete multiple surveys or quizzes (this is instead of having to manually configure a sequence of categories to complete using the nextcategory tag)
• The new sequence tag allows a list of categories to be assigned to users and to display in an HTML table which categories have been completed and which still need to be completed
• Add [:user_madblanks_session_id:]
• Add a percentage tag to calculate what percentage a is of b:  [:percentage:{a}:{b}:{precision}:]
• Add new Score Script tags for use in Archive Score Scripts:
• [:entered_by_id:]
• [:entered_by_user_name:]
• [:entered_by_user_full_name:]
• [:author_alias:]
• [:author_alias_or_user_name:]
• [:author_alias_or_user_full_name:]
• Colorize the generic Score Scripts and remove the quotation marks
• Add lower, upper, ucfirst, ucwords, lcfirst to 'filter' tag options
• Various other small feature enhancements

The following bug and issue fixes were applied:

• Specify a default collation or all Mad Blanks database tables upon installation (so the default latin1_swedish_ci is not used)
• Update MySQL syntax to use ENGINE instead of TYPE upon installation
• When viewing the back end record list, make the list is filtered notification more noticeable
• Fix plus sign does not submit
• Change so that auto-submit on change doesn't work in the back end when manually editing a record
• Update category viewing and editing permissions wording "Record creation control for a user" and "Record creation control for a visitor"
• Fix 500 error when Google Chart API used on alternate database table
• Fix LABEL_MBLCSR_INSTRUCTIONS_STRING used improperly in Create Single Record module XML file
• Enhance labels in category "Default response" "Correct response" etc. so they don't get lost among the extra text
• Fix W3C validation (XHTML mode) of check box and radio button options with spaces, punctuation, etc.
• Fix socdata1 preview on the back end records list to render only certain HTML tags
• Assure logged data is fully processed when nested Score Script tags are present
• Post a warning note about this in the Score Script in-component docs: group_concat issue with system variable group_concat_max_len, which has a default value of 1024 
• Email tag in-component documentation, update and fix some errors
• Allow expression declarations to be dynamically created
• Fix any module params that can accept HTML must have filter="safehtml" in the XML
• Change the Statistic Score Script module so it doesn't have to have the category parameter specified
• Update in-module documentation of the Statistic Score Script module
• Fix email tag from name and from address are the site administrator's by default
• Update documentation of Google Chart API opt-in for configuration area
• Various other small bug fixes