Gaia Ajax in the Real World : Synovate

One of the global leaders of statistics and analysis, Synovate, is publishing one of the most popular surveys in Norway. It's called Norsk Monitor (Norwegian Monitor) and will reveal your views on life, social relations and simple societal questions. The results are published every other year. A subset of this larger survey is converted into a 10 questions survey, called MikroMonitor. The chosen technology was Gaia Ajax. 

Although the application is fairly simple and the target audience is norwegians, it was written fully server side with the use of C#. No JavaScript was used at all. If you want to see the survey in action, you can either click here or view the YouTube video below

Video

Using Gaia Ajax it was fairly straightforward to add the clickable images and make them highlighted as they are selected.

Code Example

A simple example of the markup looks like this

   1:  <asp:Repeater ID="repAnswerAlts" runat="server" onitemcommand="itc">

   2:      <ItemTemplate>

   3:          <gaia:ImageButton 

   4:              CssClass="smilies"

   5:              ID="btnAnswer"  

   6:              runat="server"

   7:              CommandName="AnswerClicked" 

   8:               />

   9:      </ItemTemplate>

  10:  </asp:Repeater>