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Print individual answer records and all answer records  
Written by BlizzRD the 24 Nov 09 at 08:25. Related project: 1.x all. New
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.
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Solution #1: Combine print question list and print answers
Written by BlizzRD the 24 Nov 09 at 08:25.
A combination of the printable survey layout filled with the answers of 1 or all persons who filled in a survey.

Maybe use XForms or ODF as standard output format for optimal use?

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total question response time recorded  
Written by opirnia the 25 Nov 09 at 17:20. Related project: 1.x all. New
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.
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Solution #1: copy question timestamp & response together to response datafile
Written by opirnia the 25 Nov 09 at 17:20.
sorry, I'm not sure how things are saved. The idea though is I would like a timestamp sort of function recorded along with the response for each question.

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Customizable Export Pages  
Written by Adam1V the 17 Nov 09 at 17:12. Related project: 1.x all. New
I believe the user should be able to customize the exported data layout, inc adding their own images/text to the template.

I dont believe the current exported template caters for many people or a wide variety of survey types.

I would personally like to be able to export templates for Word, PDF and Excel last (Excel less important in my eyes).

The editable templates should include both data results and graphs view.
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Solution #1: Editable Template in the template manager
Written by Adam1V the 17 Nov 09 at 17:12.
As above, this tempalte should be editable in the template manager.

Unfortunatly, im not a coder and cannot offer and constructive advice.

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Script to simulate real world environment  
Written by lovepade the 12 Nov 09 at 10:37. Related project: 1.x all. New
Ever since some users reported problems reaching a small survey hosted on a slicehost 256 VPS, I have been paranoid about optimizing limesurvey performance.
To day I run all surveys from a dedicated 8GB monster, but I still see mysql can be tuned in different ways.
But it is difficult to realistically simulate 500 users using a full feature survey.
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Solution #1: Default test survey, with test script
Written by lovepade the 12 Nov 09 at 10:37.
Maybe the team could develop a default test-survey with different kinds og questions, and a script to simulate XX number of simultanous users.
That way a server admin could easyly get information on mysql performance etc. to optimize the server.

Maybe selenium twisted can be used: http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/03/web-app-testing-with-python-part-2.htm l

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Export / Compare Multiple Surveys  
Written by Adam1V the 9 Nov 09 at 10:58. Related project: 1.x all. New
We use LS for creating project feedback forms, a new form is created for each project, all of which contain exactly the same questions as the last.

I would like to be able to compare/export surveys against eachother, i.e create graphs.
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Solution #1: Unsure
Written by Adam1V the 9 Nov 09 at 10:58.
Unfortunatly, I am not a coder and unable to offer advice.


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Save token attributes in exported survey structure  
Written by Adam1V the 29 Oct 09 at 09:29. Related project: 2.x all. New
I have a standard survey which I call template.
I export this each time and import it again to create a new survey and rename the imported survey.

In the 'Template Survey' I have an attribute setup in the tokens section called 'Occupation'.

When I export my 'Template Survey' structure, and view this in excel, I can see the token attribute 'Occupation'.

When I create a new survey and import 'Template Survey' and give this a new name, it does not import the token attribute 'Occupation'.

This would save alot of time for repetitive surveys / standard templates.
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Solution #1: Import Token attributes
Written by Adam1V the 29 Oct 09 at 09:29.
as above.

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Save token attributes in exported template structure?  
Written by Adam1V the 10 Oct 09 at 18:12. Related project: 1.x all. New
It would appear when you export and import, it does not import token attributes, yet these are included in the exported data?
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Solution #1: Include this in the import?
Written by Adam1V the 10 Oct 09 at 18:12.
as above.

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Triple-s survey interchange standard  
Written by DavidS the 27 Oct 09 at 14:24. Related project: 2.x all. New
CSV export of data from LimeSurvey works for simple manipulation of data.

Triple-s survey interchange standard: http://www.triple-s.org/ was designed to allow exchange of complete survey structures and design between survey tools.

This feature would allow surveys and survey data to be easier exported and used in other survey products and tools.
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Solution #1: Triple-s survey interchange standard - specification
Written by DavidS the 27 Oct 09 at 14:24.
Read and appreciate benefits of specification: http://www.triple-s.org/sssxml12f.htm and see how these could be incorporated in the product.

Reaching this specification would help LimeSurvey increase user base as software would be industry standard compliant.

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Export survey results with full questions to include images  
Written by peterbrown05 the 24 Oct 09 at 21:22. Related project: 1.x all. New
Some of the questions in my survey have images. I then export full survey responses and it is hard to understand the questions / responses without the images being exported too.

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Solution #1: Include images in output word or pdf document
Written by peterbrown05 the 24 Oct 09 at 21:22.
Embed image(s) in exported word document / pdf.

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Survey Editor and the capacity to change multiple questions at the same time  
Written by creek138 the 14 Oct 09 at 21:32. Related project: 2.x all. New
Could you have a survey editor, much like you have a template editor?

I find it impossible to alter question/label set sizes and the placement on the survey (Left or right, top corner, etc, not question order)

Also, Could we edit multiple questions at the same time without exporting to excel first?

Developer comments
I moved your idea to the "Limesurvey 2" project because it's far too much effort to change the GUI of Limesurvey 1 to cope with it.
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Solution #1: Create a survey editor, preferably drag n' drop, and a multiple question editor
Written by creek138 the 14 Oct 09 at 21:32.
Could you have a survey editor, much like you have a template editor, that allows you to:

- Alter each invidual question's placement on the survey
- Alter the size that each Lable set's data option takes up on the page (Bad example, but let's say I have a 1 through 10 custom array, where the first 9 options are the numbers 1-9 and the 10th is a 50 char paragraph)

In additon to that, it would also be nice to have a multiple question editor:

-where you could select all or multiple questions on the survey at the same time and be able to change their lable set, their font, their lable answers, whatever else one would want.
-where you can change multiple questions on the fly without having to go into each individual question, similar to what it would look like if you went into mysql and changed it (not recommended!).

I have some surveys that are over 500 questions long, with multiple conditional questions. So what I have been doing in these cases is export to excel, alter the survey there (I have built a .csv builder that concatenates all of the necessary criteria from excel to a very long string if anyone is interested) and then upload back into LS, it is time consuming, but much less than altering each question individually on the front end.

PS. You guys are awesome! I hope this takes off like mint did!

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More user-friendly Word export results  
Written by Adam1V the 10 Oct 09 at 12:31. Related project: 1.x all. New
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.
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Solution #1: Revise the exported results template
Written by Adam1V the 10 Oct 09 at 12:31.
I have created a better looking template here: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=40822a586423d076d0d290dca69ceb5ce04e75f6e8eb b871
Although I do believe someone could do better than me quick effort?

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Export survey start language with data  
Written by tpartner the 26 Sep 09 at 21:33. Related project: 1.x all. New
I think it would be useful to be able to record and export the survey start language for multi-lang surveys, much like it is now possible to record the time-stamp or IP address. So if a survey was accessed with something like "http://www.mysite.com/surveys//index.php?sid=11111&newtest=Y&lang=fr", the "fr" would be in the exported data.

This would allow the data to be filtered by language.

A related idea would be to allow filtering by start language in the Statistics panel.
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Solution #1: Export survey start language with data
Written by tpartner the 26 Sep 09 at 21:33.
Not sure how it would be done in the back end but basically add a checkbox to the "Notification & data management" panel to include the startlanguage column of the lime_survey_SID table in the exportable data.

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