There are very much topics in the forum that deal with rights and session problems so it would be great to have a check if the necessary folders are writeable and if sessions on the server are created correctly (not sure how this can best be checked, any ideas?).

Survey settings is composed of 2 pages:
1 Survey configs, with tuples (name-value) .e.g. Allow Saves Y/N
2 Survey textes, with survey title, welcome, endmsg.

The first part of settings are set at start of your work with a survey, and rarely fixed later.
The behaviour of a survey is technical choice, with a tendency of no change over time.

The second part is very frequently used, I believe it stays at the same level of questions and aswer, often modified for the same aesthetic or pratic reasons.

It's more productive to show and review all conditions in a admin page.
Mantain them from there (Edit, add, delete) is considered a plus.

I need to collect more contact information on registration such as phone number, address, etc.

I can add an attribute for it (tokens) but then when the user visits, it does not ask for this info.

So, basically my idea is to have a setting "Public" and "Required" for attributes in tokens. Then, I can add an attribute such as "Phone Number" and set it to public and required and the user will be required to provide it to take the survey.

Basically there are situations where the results of a survey may need to be viewed by a number of people, but you do not wish to have these people be able to alter the results of the survey.

Case in point is one I worked on for a group of customer service reps. The survey was intended to determine how well each CSR was doing and the support in general. Now we want to have the CSRs be able to view the results across the board, but there is no option to disable their ability to alter the results of a response. So if they noticed that one customer gave them a bad rating, they can change it. Currently the only way to have the CSRs view the results is to give them permission, but that permission also allows them to alter the results.

I think there should be a way to give users/groups permission to view the results, but nothing else.

As the admin for a large limesurvey site i often create surveys for other people but then make them the administrator of the survey and assign them the rights to access the survey
In the survey list i still see all the surveys i created for these people although i am not the administrator, i am the "creator" of the survey
If I could transfer it to the actual administrator of the survey i could find surveys better

There should be an ability to set a quota for total complete or incomplete responses to a number
After the quota has been reached the survey could be expired

There are surveys we take that require some degree of geographic information to be submitted.

Rather than ask novice/general public users to use a GPS and submit coordinates (which invariably end up incorrect), we would like to have them use a map-style interface like Google maps, where they can drag and drop the pin where they were when they saw what they are reporting, and then have the question type save the latitude and longitude of their dropped pin.

Additional token attribute fields are great, but please add some validation:

- on import, the additional attribute fields should be created automatically; if not, give a warning

- when using additional attribute fields as placeholders for replacements (e.g. email), there should be a warning plus abort the sending procedure in the cast that the attribute field does not exist in the database

- additional attribute fields should be recreated when importing surveys

Currently responses are checked on the client. But HTTP can easily be tampered such that arbitrary values are sent to the server. (E.g. the value 5 when only 1 to 4 is allowed.)

Tics (aka tic marks) should be visible under the slider bar.

See this sketch: http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5295/10403feb10095848.gif

benefits: easy read, make it clear it's a slider with discrete values, catch where the handle is in respect to left and right limits.

Details:
type = multiple numerical input
options:
use slider layout = 1
slider min = 0
slider max = 10
slider accurancy = 1

In older version of Limesurvey, it was possible for the author of a survey to manage the results (delete and modify the results).

In the 1.87 version, it's now impossible. The user have to be super-administrator to do this.

SAS is a powerful statistics application that's pretty broadly used. LimeSurvey already supports exporting results to R and SPSS, which are good packages, but many of our users prefer to use SAS.

We'd like to see support for exporting LimeSurvey data into a format SAS can use, as has been done for SPSS and R.

I have a preview for a single question which is really helpful.

I would like to have as well a preview of a Question Group. This would help me to get an idea about the order and being lost in details. Would help especially for those questions at the end of a survey.

I use the same survey, except for a few small changes, with different groups of people. I'd like the ability to just click a button and copy a survey, including questions, layout, etc., without needing to use the import/export feature.

I believe that all question types on a survey should allow for mandatory enforcement which this question type currently does not. Since it doesn't and people taking the survey might not answer a question of this type, either on purpose or by accident there is no way to ensure data integrity. At the very least, if the question cannot enforce the mandatory option that option box should not be available in design mode. It allows an unsuspecting survey designer to include what could be a key question and not realize it could be bypassed and save what I assume would be a "0" answer even though it was not a respondant's intention. In some ways, this question is similar to a simple Y/N question. If the respondant clicks the next button without ever clicking one of the two options on a Yes/No question, the mandatory test stops you from proceding and warns that the question was unanswered. I would think the (Multi Flexible) (Numbers) checkbox layout question type should behave in the same manner. I have had students take surveys and have missing, potentially incorrect answers because the (Multi Flexible) (Numbers) checkbox layout questions will proceed even though they did not select any of the options and clicked the next button. However, I did set the question's mandatory option equal to yes.

There are few good survey examples to learn from.
There are few adequated test surveys available.




There are no real life surveys we can get access to learn from.

I suggest a new forum catagory - best survey showcase.

So that anyone in the community can submit a real life survey.

LimeSurvey is lack of web 2.0 complex graphics, animated graphics feature, multimedia functionality.



Check out, http://inpowr.com/wellbeing/quiz


This has complex, animated survey.

When having many Limesurvey installations on the same server and you want to add another fresh installation you really have to take care to use the correct settings in config.php. Otherwise you might update an existing installation instead of setting up a new one because when calling /admin/install the update script is called automatically without asking you if you really want to proceed. You might end in having an old installation using old files but being updated to the latest DB scheme which causes lots of problems at this old installation.

Up to now (LS 1.87) there are no statistics for question type "date" available. It would be nice to create some charts (showing results in a table isn't necessary from my point of view) so the admin gets an overview which date was entered.