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Email throttling like PhpList  
Written by GregB the 28 Feb 10 at 23:59. Related project: 1.x all. New
Many shared hosting providers have an hourly limit on how many emails you can send out.

To manage this limit, you have to babysit LimeSurvey and press the button in batches.

If you exceed the hourly limit, bunches of emails will not go out and often you will receive bounced email messages. It is a mess to determine who did get your invitation / reminder and who did not.
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Solution #1: Email throttling similar to PHPList
Written by GregB the 28 Feb 10 at 23:59.
PHPList is an open source newsletter package that I use to keep in touch with my subscribers.

It has an email queue that automatically works through batches of emails until it has sent all them all. The email queue can process automatically using cron jobs.

Since PhPList is open source and LimeSurvey is open source, maybe PHPList would share some lessons learned and allow sharing of some of theri current code?

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How to visualize questions, logic & conditions  
Written by GregB the 16 Feb 10 at 23:28. Related project: 1.x all. New
Some surveys can be very complex.

For my last survey, I had a committee deciding the groups and questions. We used FreeMind to come up with our structure.
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Solution #1: Visual Question Tree using MindMap structure
Written by GregB the 16 Feb 10 at 23:28.
It would seem to me that someone very smart person could make some script to convert survey data into mindmap data.

This would be a straight export from LimeSurvey to the mindmap data structure.

Branches can be colorcoded to denote conditions.
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Solution #2: Solution #2: Use a normal "folder visualisation"
Written by holch the 5 Mar 10 at 18:59.
I agree that the MindMap Structure wouldn't really work.

But I know some survey tools, that use a kind of "folder structure" as we know it from file explorers, etc.

I think this can display filters and so on pretty well. At the moment Quotas, Filters, and questions are somehow displayed very seperate and it difficult to get a good overview of the survey (I do agree with the GregB here).

But with the folder tree, you can show loops, filters, pages/groups and questions, which can be especially helpful for long and complicated surveys.

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