Cannot make matrix questions required

[paleohug]

Bug description

I am using a required_questions vector to manually manage the questions I want absolutely my participants to answer.
Among this varied list of questions (mc, mc_buttons, mc_multiple_buttons, matrix, text, textarea and numeric questions), matrix questions are not made required in the deployed survey.
Is there a specific trick to do it? Is it a bug?
Thanks in advance!

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[jhelvy]

Hi, thanks for the issue. Can you provide a specific example of this not working for you? Are you trying to make individual items in the matrix required, or the entire matrix question (with all subquestions) required?

[paleohug]

I want to make the entire matrix question required, just like any other types of question.

As an example:
In survey.qmd:

sd_question(
  type   = "matrix",
  id     = "archaeo_knowledge",
  label  = "Please rate your **theoretical knowledge** about the lithic industries of the following archaeological periods",
  row    = c(
    "Neolithic" = "neo",
    "Mesolithic" = "meso",
    "Upper Palaeolithic or Late Stone Age" = "up",
    "Middle Palaeolithic or Middle Stone Age" = "mp",
    "Lower Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age" = "lp"
    ),
  option = c(
    "Unknown" = "unknown",
    "Unfamiliar" = "unfamiliar",
    "Familiar" = "familiar",
    "Accustomed" = "accustomed",
    "Specialist" = "specialist"
  )
)

In app.R:

sd_server(
    required_questions = c("archaeo_knowledge")
)

In spite of being added in the required_questions function's vector (alongside other questions), matrix questions are not rendered as required in the deployed survey, while all the other types of question are.

[jhelvy]

Okay, yes I can reproduce this issue. This must be a bug.

@pingfan-hu can you look into this? I also just added an additional numeric question, and I was able to proceed even without answering it. The numeric question has the red asterisk, but the matrix question does not. I thought we had addressed this long ago, but we must have broken something.

[jhelvy]

Okay this will go on our todo list to update in the next version.

[pingfan-hu]

Got it. I'll add it to our to-do list.

[pingfan-hu]

OK it's on our list.

[pingfan-hu]

Hi @paleohug ! Problem solved! Now we can properly set a matrix question as required. In your case, this will work properly:

sd_server(
    required_questions = c("archaeo_knowledge")
)

All subquestions will be defined as required, along with asterisk indicators.
However, we are in the middle of updating other features, so the new version won't be merged immediately. I'll let you know when we do the merge.

[paleohug]

Thanks, that's amazing! Looking forward to the next update.