I tried to export a survey that uses an own design template and an image that has been uploaded with the "cke"-HTML-Editor.
I then tried to import the survey into another installation of LimeSurvey. The "own" design template is not there so the default template was used. The HTML-Code of the image is still in the question but the image file is missing (because the /upload/survey/xxxxx/ folder has not been exported.)

It would be nice if there is a message that tells the dependencies of the used template/images of the survey when exporting the survey.

When I export results, I can choose 1) compered responses, 2) All responses, 3) incomplete responses.

I can also choose which token fiels I'd like to be merged with my responses.

But I would very much like to import ALL tokens, with all respondens. This way it would be much easier to calculate e.g. the response rate.

Currently I have to download all tokens, download alle results and then merge manually. This seems inefficient and not logical to me.

Make Limesurvey survey content available offline on the iPad or on the Android platform.
This will help boost usability of Limesurvey by people wishing to collect face to face data with customers, as an alternative to collecting hte data on-line, but hte database would be identical, and can be used to extend the reach of hte surveying method.

We need to do both web-based and paper surveys. We would like to export surveys to paper and then import/scan survey results back into LimeSurvey

Currently, LSRC (LimeSurvey Remote Control) only supports .CSV files as templates.

It would be great to be able to support LSS/LSG/LSQ files on top of CSVs

This would allow me (and other users) to use an exported structure from a complex survey in v1.90+, modify it at will, and import it to create a modified version of the survey.

Today we can export results from n to m.
On successive exports, it's more pleasant starting from date.

The main problem with Lime survey is that groups and questions have all different IDs. If you copy a survey, the survey ID will change (and this is normal) but all the question IDs and the group IDs will also change.

This way of working makes Lime more difficult to integrate with outside applications. It also prevents having features like a bank of questions which one could pick into.

Example: I am passing company name parameter from another application (my ERP for instance) to a given question in one survey. I will use the SGQA Identifier which will be for instance 12345X1X1001.
Now, if I duplicate the survey into another one, and simply need to change two or 3 questions, lime will necessarily rename the survey ID (which is normal), but will also change the group ID and all question ID. What I passed to 12345X1X1001 will now need to be passed to 54321X2X1002 for instance. This means that from the external application, I must maintain a different map per survey - which is time consuming.

If Lime would not automatically increment the group and question numbers, passing (and retrieving) parameters would be far easier because only the survey ID would need to be changed. This would mean that the company name of all of my surveys could be passed to DDDDDX1X1001 with DDDDD being the survey ID to point to. In that situation, I would be able to copy the map of a survey to the next and simply change the mapping for questions which have truly changed versus the original survey copy.

I understand there might not be an easy way of achieving such purpose, at least I wanted to place that rationale in the pool of ideas as it is important for Lime to be integrable with other tools. I believe its current structure is a barrier towards that objective.

With a larger organisation and more people to collaborate on creating surveys, it would be a convenience to have the ability to support survey versioning.

Hi,

I think thats will be interenting that we can export answers by date of last action, I only can export by range id, but if you can export by date you can export only the answers that you completed from concrete day or range. Actually you can export by date on stadistiquis, but not at the answers, I think.

Sorry for my english

The response export options are very limited at this time. Yes, there are many options but the mostly give very hard to read exports.

For example, there is the export to program option, which lets you export responses to Word, Excel or PDF format. If you have several dual scale array questions, such a Word export becomes illegible.

The same goes for the 'view single response'. When you are in the 'view responses' screen, there is a magnifying glass icon for each response which lets you zoom in on that response. But also that response is almost illegible.

I have a question1 of type M. A test person is able to write an additional answer into the text box.
In question2 of the type F (array flexible labels) are all answers of question1 but not the answer from the text box. Now I want the test person to be able to rate his/her answer as well.

To make the initial stucturing of a survey faster, it would be very helpful to be able to import a mindmap as the basic survey structure.

Level 1 Branches would be sections, level two answers. We could even go so far as to design standardised icons to identify the question types. The text attachment to a node would serves as the description of the question...

What do you think?

J

After taking a public survey, a end user can have the option to suggest his friends to take the survey.

The exact steps :

A user takes a public survey.
When he is done with the survey, on the last page of the survey, he has the option of suggesting some of his friends to take this survey.
If the user decides that he wants to suggest his friends, he clicks on a button "Suggest your friends". On clicking this page he is taken to a new page, where he can:
1. type in the email id of his friends in a text area or
2. upload a csv contact list
3. type in a customised email message

These users will be sent an email by the LS email sender using the customized email message.
OPTIONAL: we can add more ways and formats of uploading contacts.

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.

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

Since the ID for the users gets calculated by the import (so, if the import is in alphabetical order we have an incremented order also in the IDs), someone could try to guess the ID of users if he has access to the mailserver-logfiles. Since the Webserver-Admin is most of the time also the admin of the mailserver on localhost, he would now have the possibility to de-anonymize some surveys.

The showprintablesurvey feature only produces printable forms. The operator must input its answers manually. It is costful and troublesome.
LimeSurvey SHOULD have a feature to produce some kinds of Optical Mark Recognizing(OMR) forms which can be sent by fax or snail mail and their answers can be read automatically through document scanners.

In response to forum post #34111, I would like to be able to create a list of question codes and their matching SGQA identifiers. I have been using a long, laborious manner of creating Access (from MySQL) and Excel tables (from the LimeSurvey Administation screen) and stitching them together in one Excel table. Sometimes I end up with more SGQA fields than question code fields, even after allowing for the first few fields at the front of the table.

We do a lot of analyzing of data and it would be much more efficient if there were a simpler manner.

For clarification, here is an example of what I am looking for:

SatWRes 78787X1X3
FirstName 78787X1X4

Thanks!

tfj

We detect a need in our user population (admins and survey creators) to print individual answers to a survey. For example an evaluation survey where the admin would like to print an answer record of 1 person or all the persons who filled in the survey.

We would like to keep track of how long respondents take to answer each question.

This would be a little like the timing feature but backwards; that is, instead of counting down we would need it to count up, record the time somewhere, and then begin again for the next question.