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.

I'm a happy Stata user and I've started to use limesurvey for making online surveys. I realize that SPSS is the most used software for statistical analysis in academic context, but it would be great if it was possible to export answers directly in Stata dataset format (.dta).

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

I was wondering if it were possible and useful to extend the power of the quick add button in such a way that within one input box we can insert (1) the question code, (2) the question text, and (3) the options.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

It would appear when you export and import, it does not import token attributes, yet these are included in the exported data?