Sliders defined on server side are not storing data

[saudiwin]

Bug description

I believe this is related to #201 . It looks like when a slider question is defined on the server side, the values are not captured in the data. I tested this with the question_types template in the template repo -- i.e. I added the following server-generated question to the survey.qmd:

sd_output("slider1",type="question")

where it was defined in the server side as:

sd_question(
        id    = 'slider1',
        type  = 'slider',
        label = "Where do you want to go to?",
        option = c(
            'Take me to the page on Question Types (the next page)' = 'question_types',
            'Take me to the page on Question Formatting' = 'question_formatting',
            'Skip to the end' = 'end'
        )
    )

when I take the survey and then inspect the results, slider1 is always set to the default value (first value).

this is a fairly important breaking change, would love any help in diagnosing & fixing it.

I tested it with the version available on CRAN.

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[saudiwin]

So just to follow up, I can confirm I can get the data from the slider if I use the sd_question_custom function and define the slider on the survey side with renderUI.

So it might be the extra javascript put into the slider (this is the sliderTextInput from the shinyWidgets package) in sd_question that transforms the values. Just a guess.

[jhelvy]

That very well could be the issue. I've been thinking about this more and am considering whether we can remove the dependency on the shinyWidgets package. If we can find a way to package up the standard slider widget to perform the way we want (all three slider type question), then maybe we can address this issue while also removing a dependency.

[saudiwin]

Getting rid of dependencies is always, although in terms of dependencies, shinyWidgets seems like a useful one as it has a lot of other survey answer-type widgets that might be useful (I'm using a different one in a current survey that's offers a fancier text input).