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Review all conditions  
Written by apps the 5 Feb 10 at 14:10. Related project: 1.x all. New
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.
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Solution #1: add a page "Logic Management"
Written by apps the 5 Feb 10 at 14:10.
Add a button to the survey button bar, next to "Token management"
Create a page to review all conditions in the current SurveyID

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Tics for slider layout  
Written by apps the 2 Feb 10 at 10:06. Related project: 1.x all. New
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

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Solution #1: add an option
Written by apps the 2 Feb 10 at 10:06.
show_tics = 0 (default). Just as it is.
show_tics = 1 : the slider shows tics under the bar, between the slider_min and the slider_max values.

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Toggle "Mandatory" setting on questions  
Written by tpartner the 19 Dec 09 at 01:08. Related project: 1.x all. New
I would like to see a tool that could toggle the "Mandatory" setting on all questions in the survey from "on" to "off" and vice versa.

This would make the Q/A process on long surveys much easier - one wouldn't need to answer every question just to check a fix on page 16 of a survey.
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Solution #1: Add a button/input to survey settings that would toggle the mandatory states.
Written by tpartner the 19 Dec 09 at 01:08.
To toggle the questions to optional, the button would query the DB, find all questions in the current survey with mandatory=Y and change them to mandatory=M.

We need to use "M" so we can find them to toggle them back later.

The system would see "M" as non-mandatory so all of these questions could now be skipped in a Q/A process.

This way only the questions that the survey author had set to mandatory would be affected.

To toggle the questions back to mandatory, the button would query the DB, find all questions in the current survey with mandatory=M and change them to mandatory=Y.

I've put together a little php script to demonstrate the concept that you can grab at http://partnersinc.biz/testsites/misc_images/mandatory_toggle.txt (can't seem to attach anything here!).
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Solution #2: Use a session variable to disable the "checkmandatorys" function
Written by tpartner the 19 Dec 09 at 14:40.
A more elegant solution may be to have the button/input set a session variable to disable the "checkmandatorys" function. (thanks Carsten)

Some red text could then be displayed at the bottom of the survey indicating that it is in "Q/A" mode and all questions are optional.

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Saving Surveys (not anonymous) without Username and Password  
Written by halliballi123 the 9 Aug 11 at 10:21. Global category: Question types. Implemented
If I create a survey that is not anonymous.
I send invitations via email.

I want users to save their survey and come back later without having to create some user and password information.

All they should need is just their token to come back and go on with their survey.

I know that there is the option of answer persistence but this does not work if I let the useres answer the survey questions group by group and it is not intuitive for the users.

There has to be a explicit button for saving the survey unless users would not think that there is the possibility for saving the survey and come back later. Especially if they are not really computer experts

Best regards
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Selected solution (#1): Add functionality for saving (not anonymous) without username and password
Written by halliballi123 the 9 Aug 11 at 10:21.
- Button for saving (allready exists)

- Option for the creator of surveys for not needing username and password for saving and loading survey answers for surveys that are not anonymous.

After some discussions we found a working solution. It is already implemented, you just have to use the correct settings:

# Participant may save and resume later? = yes
# Enable token-based response persistence? = yes
# Anonymized responses? = no


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Confirmation E-Mail INSERTANS on not answered questions  
Written by mmaa the 18 May 10 at 18:49. Related project: 1.x all. New
Place all answers in confirmation E-Mails and produce no error, if a question wasn't answered.
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Solution #1: check each placeholder if it's empty and if so place a string like "no answer"
Written by mmaa the 18 May 10 at 18:49.
check each placeholder if it's empty and if so place a string like "no answer given"

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Possibility to select separator for tokes imported from CSV  
Written by puohis the 7 May 10 at 14:47. Related project: 1.x all. Implemented
In Finland and in many other countries other than US use semicolon (;) as a list separator and LimeSurvey can only use comma (,) as list separator (US style) for CSV files.
Would be nice to be able to select which list separator to use, because Windows and Excel are so dummy that you can't select the separator when you are saving file from Excel to CSV. You can change the separator by setting it to Windows locale settings, but that affects all programs.

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Selected solution (#2): Configurable in import dialog
Written by c_schmitz the 24 Oct 10 at 02:35.
Easiest would be the option to choose the separator in the import dialog

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Custom styling disappears when survey is copied  
Written by lovepade the 27 Oct 11 at 14:26. Global category: Templates. New
I often apply custom css styling to certain questions. I also often copy surveys (or base new ones on old ones).

The custom styling is dependant on the specific question_ID, like this:

#question2736 .answer_cell_001
background-color: #ff0000;


So when I copy a survey I must 1) copy the template, 2) assign a new template 3) change all #question classes to the new questionclass. As this is not trivial and can only be done by inspecting the stylesheet of both surveys, it would be really swell with a smart way of doing this.
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Solution #1: maybe lesscss
Written by lovepade the 27 Oct 11 at 14:26.
less (http://lesscss.org/) allows for css variables.

Maybe this could be used to carry over the custom properties when copying a survey?

I don't know exactly how to do it though. Maybe the styling should be done under advanced question attributes, instead of manually in the style sheet?

I don't know the solution, but the problem is real :-)

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Menu: "List Surveys"  
Written by m998dvd the 3 May 10 at 10:02. Related project: 1.x all. Implemented
When I make a Survey, I would like to see how many people have answered the survey.

In the menu "List Survey you see the following columns:
"Full responses" > "Partial responses" > "Total responses"

It's handy, but you can't see how much there are left, or how many surveys are untouched.
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Selected solution (#1): "Total quests" in the menu: "List Surveys"
Written by m998dvd the 3 May 10 at 10:02.
It would be nice and handy, if there can be an extra column in this list and this next to "Total responses".

It would be easier to check and in one eye-view you see all the information that you needed.

"Full responses" > "Partial responses" > "Total responses" > "Total Requests".

Maybe one little thing after that requested column: "Percentage responded".

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Disable conformation emails  
Written by Vincor67 the 6 Oct 11 at 09:36. Global category: Authentication. Already implemented
I make surveys for my clients. We promise the people who participate that the reports I make are anonymous. But some users question this anonymity when they receive a conformation email.
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Solution #1: Make an option to block conformation emails
Written by Vincor67 the 6 Oct 11 at 09:36.
Make an option to block conformation emails

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Addition of third person comments  
Written by kakarountas the 7 Nov 11 at 09:14. Global category: Logic & Conditions. New
I am a manager at a small enterprise and I would like to ask my employees for completing a self-assessment form created using LimeSurvey. However, before forwarding it to the board, I would like to add at least some comments to each completed survey for each employer (alternatively a reply to 5-10 questions per completed questionnaire would also be ok).
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Solution #1: Supporting two users completing a single questionnaire
Written by kakarountas the 7 Nov 11 at 09:14.
So what I would like to suggest is to support/introduce surveys required to be completed by two persons. This means, that one group of questions is completed by the employer and another group of questions by the manager. Only when both have completed the questionnaire, it may be considered to be closed.

Since I am a new user of LimeSurvey, and until now I have used it for typical only surveys, to gather statistical data, I am apologizing if this is a feature already available.

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send automatically an email to the survey user with his datas  
Written by fradeff the 27 May 10 at 16:01. Related project: 1.x all. Already implemented
(please forgive my poor english... I'm french speaker)

We use at our university intensively limesurvey, and I really appreciate it: I'm not only using it for surveys, but also as a form-generator and gained a lot of time doing so. I was able with limesurvey to answer to dozens of demands reading the doc and adapting the surveys according to it.

But... several administrators of surveys ask me if it is not possible to send to the survey user (the person filling the survey, not the admin) an email with his/her information, when she submits the survey. This is very common on forms, but seems to miss in limesurvey.

I've googled and checked in doc + forum + ideas (here) without finding anything about that question, which surprised me, as I think could be quite interesting for many limesurvey users / administrators. So if I searched bad, please forgive me.

Personnally, I use the Automatic End URL to do that, but it's quite a lot of handmade job for each survey (get the survey sid and the answer id, parse the corresponding table fields name, send the mail, and so one for each new survey where this notification is required).

Hereafter a suggestion to add this feature

Hope this concerns other than us and that a solution can be found!

Best,

Fred R, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Solution #1: Add a question type "email + optional notification"
Written by fradeff the 27 May 10 at 16:01.
In all surveys (closed with email AND public-open), add a question-type named email (which could include a regexp check of the mail, which I also do "by hand"), and a checkbox with a label sthing like "Send collected datas to the email provided here".

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Sorting Admin and secondary surveys  
Written by islander the 16 Jul 10 at 14:13. Related project: 1.x all. Implemented
We recently upgraded from 1.5+ to 1.86 and really like the new versions' ability to sort the surveys by Live, Inactive, Expired etc.

Is it possible to arrange the surveys by who they were made by?

We have a number of Developers creating surveys and having them grouped by owner would be very helpful.
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Selected solution (#1): Grouped, or tagged
Written by islander the 16 Jul 10 at 14:13.
Rather then creating a Live/Inactive/Expired for 'each' developer, I suggest tagging a survey with an abbreviation of the developers name.


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