Make the infos like browser agent, javascriptversion, OS and additonal infos available in the results.
Some workarounds are not working with different browsers. E.g. you wonder why a hidden question was filled out with a invalid value (solution, very old browser wasn't hiding the question). If you have the additional infos at hand you can quickly pinpoint what might be the cause of that answer pattern.
The variables could also be made accessible for conditions.
But to save them into the results would be already a big help to give feedback about problems and weighting them in terms of how often they would occur in the field.
The evaluated TOTAL assessment (sum) is nicely displayed at the end of the survey - which can only be seen by the user who filled the survey in.
However, this result is not stored at the answers database. After a lot of user filled the survey in, i would like to see the sums given for all of these users.
Now i have to export the answers and should repeat the assessment / summarize in Excel before i can see these TOTAL sums.
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.
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.
Any question that totals to 100% gets a graphic representation in the form of a pie chart.
I tried to change the code to make it possible to choose a bar chart instead.
I did this because the pie chart is terrible to intepret when it depicts more than 3 variables. It sure looks nice, but it does not convey information in a nice manner: it flabbergasts.
(This link tells it much better than I ever could:http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/08-21-07.pdf)
The 'exclude_all_others' attribute sould be available for any kind of Multiple
choice questions like:
P - Multiple Options with Comments
Q - Multiple short text
K - Multiple Numerical
and not just for:
?M - Multiple Options
It would be great if the 'other option' could be choosen as well to exclude all others.
Written by ElMatador69 the 28 Sep 09 at 20:25.
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The display of question attributes has changed from v1.86 to v1.87.
At the moment in the v1.87-dev branch just all question attributes are displayed, if the admin clicks at advanced settings. Therefore it's hard to see, which question attributes have been modified = are changed against the default values.
In questions using multiple numeric answers with sliders, sometimes we have answers that the participant can skip if they wish.
If they have clicked at all on the slider answer before deciding to skip it, however, a value is recorded. They can then slide back and forth after that but cannot go back to no value (so are in effect at that point forced to answer/have an answer value recorded).
We would like a way for participants to reset the slider value to nothing (not zero but no value) as if they had never clicked on the slider at all.
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?).
Limesurvey tokens already have a field named token status that takes the "OK" default value. When this field is updated withj any other value, the token email can be automatically bypassed by LimeSurvey invitation/reminder process.
The goal of this idea is to design a new process that would make it possible to an external probe script, to send a failed-email-address notification to LimeSurvey so that the token status is automatically updated (right now this is only a manual update).
The probe script is external to limesurvey since its operation depends on the mail-server system used by the Administrator Bounce address.
Special care must be take to prevent anyone on the internet from sending a specially crafted fake bounced email that would disable valid tokens.
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.
I have the same survey to do, but there are two different kind of partecipants.
One group is formed by industry managers, politicians, etc; the second one is formed by journalists, opinion leader, professors, etc.
So I would send a different invitation for each group. The first in a formal language and the second in a more friendly language.
I can import addresses and use the attributes to identify the group belonging for each partecipant.
In a field declared as a number field it is not possible to fill in numbers with a "," as decimal separator even if the language choosen should allow this (e.g. German). This can cause a lot of confusion to survey participants if they get an error when the number ist typed in correctly.
I believe the exported results should be much more user-friendly, after all, this is probably the biggest part of the survey; reviewing your results and yet the readability of the word export is terrible.
Id really like a setup wizard that allowed for updating of the config.php file. It would be really good if errors could then be displayed to indicate the entries that are stopping the install from proceeding.