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Conditions for subquestions  
Written by sociolog the 8 Sep 10 at 03:48. Related project: 1.x all. New
Sometimes when there is an array question containing an n-point scale with multiple subquestions, some of the subquestions need to be filtered out (e.g. if it is a scale of satisfaction with health, family, friends and job, if the respondent does not have a job then the "satisfaction with job" subquestion should not appear).
There is currently the option of "array filter" to synchronize a multiple answer type question with an array, but sometimes that is not enough, especially when only a few subquestions actually need filtering (e.g. in the previous example, there is no point to ask if the respondent has a family, friends or health, but it is necessary to ask if he/she has a job).
Therefore, it would be useful to include in the "conditions" tab the possibility of applying conditions not only to questions, but to subquestions.
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Solution #1: apply the same rationale used to filter questions to filtering subquestions
Written by sociolog the 8 Sep 10 at 03:48.
I am not a programmer so I am not sure how to implement this, but if conditioning can be applied to questions, than why not to subquestions?

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it should be possible to turn on/off the note about privacy  
Written by pmonstad the 3 Sep 10 at 23:45. Related project: 1.x all. New
The privacy note is too eye catching and should either have the possibility to be turned on/off or the possibility to change style from css.

There is as far as I can see, no css style for the privacy note making it hard to put to text in smaller size.
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Solution #1: implement on/off option and/or css style
Written by pmonstad the 3 Sep 10 at 23:45.
implement on/off option and/or css style
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Solution #2: Turn off anonymous submissions
Written by dvickers79 the 1 Oct 10 at 20:39.
The only way that I've found to remove it is to turn off anonymous submissions, as this is what the privacy message is referring to...anonymity.

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as administrator of the survey, it would be great to see the comments in PDF too  
Written by aalano the 23 Aug 10 at 05:52. Related project: 1.x all. New
My survey has list comments questionnaire but I am unable to see the comments when I generate the stats in PDF or Excel. For report consolidation purposes, I think it will be extremely helpful to be abel to see the comments typed by respondents even in the PDF and Excel format.
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Solution #1: Option for exporting comments and Graphs
Written by aalano the 23 Aug 10 at 05:52.
Perhaps we can have a tick box for admin to select if they want the comments to be exported in PDF and Excel.

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Better response export options  
Written by rowdy the 18 Aug 10 at 14:37. Related project: 1.x all. New
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.
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Solution #1: View responses as the question list
Written by rowdy the 18 Aug 10 at 14:37.
The export to Word/Excel/PDF option should be thoroughly revised so that it produces easy to read responses.

The 'zoom in' on a single response should be changed. It should be presented exactly as the survey-taking screen (optionally divided in multiple screens or just all questions on one screen) and all the answers provided should be filled in. All fields can also be set to 'read only'. But this is a good way to view one single response. You can then even read the dual scale arrays correctly, easily see which checkbox-answers are ticked by a particular question...

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Option to show text responses in statistics view (via filter)  
Written by Doc101 the 23 Jul 10 at 13:38. Related project: 1.x all. New
We need to disseminate survey results to a large amount of people, and creating users/group and access permissions, plus training everyone to be able to pull result data etc is not practical.

The ability to show text responses and export them from the statistics page would solve this problem and allow quick dissemination of qualitative and qualitative data in an easy to use, familiar format (PDF/Excel)
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Solution #1: Filter option to show all text responses to a question
Written by Doc101 the 23 Jul 10 at 13:38.
I think having a filter option to show/export text responses is the best way to go. People will then have the option of keeping all the data quantifiable (as it is now) with the ability to 'browse' responses OR allowing all text responses to be shown directly in the statistics page without having to open any new windows, and with available in the PDF/Excel exports.

Thanks!

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Replacement Files Hardcoded  
Written by virus the 14 Aug 10 at 18:36. Related project: 1.x all. New
Would it not be nice if you can change the replacement fields messages to your own, currently you can't as they are hardcoded , to change them you need to edit the file just to find out that it gets replaced when you update / upgrade.
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Solution #1: RE: Replacement Files Hardcoded
Written by virus the 14 Aug 10 at 18:36.
Can it be placed within the admin area of LimeSurvey, maybe create another tab under the setup of your survey.

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RETURNTOSURVEY Button  
Written by virus the 14 Aug 10 at 18:12. Related project: 1.x all. New
Currently in LimeSurvey the replacement field for RETURNTOSURVEY if used gets replaced with and hyperlink, which does not quite fit in with all the nice buttons you have on your template.

So to make it blend in with the rest of the buttons on your template you will have to make some adjustments to your template code.
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Solution #1: RETURNTOSURVEY Button - TEMP SOLUTION
Written by virus the 14 Aug 10 at 18:12.
Have the hyperlink removed from common.php and have it replace by a button.

You can accomplish it now by doing it manually, but IS NOT RECOMMENDED as you have to make changes to the core of limesurvey which will be replaced by your next update / upgrade, but it can be done.

SOLUTION FOR NOW UNTIL APPROVED
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open common.php
goto line number 2990
replace with $savereturn = "$relativeurl/index.php?sid=$surveyid";
goto line number 2995
replace with $savereturn .= ";";
Now use the following code in your template layouts

Refresh your template and the hyperlink has been replaced with an button.

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Personality Type Surveys  
Written by partic the 14 Aug 10 at 16:09. Related project: 2.x all. New
The assessment options in Limesurvey are currently reasonably limited, and a personality type assessment would be useful.

The type of survey I'm trying to build at the moment is a personality survey where a user goes through a number of questions, and based on the totals of their answers to options A, B or C, their personality trait can be identified.

eg Based on the percentage of A, B and C a particular trait might be highlighted. This trait would be then displayed to the survey participant, as well as being recorded as the result of the survey along with the answers and assessment score ideally.

> 50% A = Type X
> 50% B = Type Y
> 50% C = Type Z
> 40% A & > 40% B = Type XY
> 40% B & > 40% C = Type YZ
> 40% A & > 40% C = Type XZ
> 30% A & > 30% B & > 30% C = Type XYZ
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Solution #1: Question Types & Similar Systems
Written by partic the 14 Aug 10 at 16:09.
http://www.proprofs.com has a Personality Quiz generator that does some of the above, but without the nuances of some of the other features of Limesurvey.

Currently the shell of the survey can be constructed with existing multiple choice question types.

Making the assessment values A, B & C (etc) allows the data to be collected that can be tabulated to work out the result for the survey.

The assessment option needs to then:
- count the number of each response type/assessment value
- calculate the percentage of total responses for each type
- allow assessment rules to be set up based on the percentage ranges for each result
- display the result to the user at the end of the survey
- store the result in the database for the administrator of the survey to access.

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User does not understand when data is saved and/or lost  
Written by ronvdburg the 11 Aug 10 at 19:18. Related project: 1.x all. New
I suggest to change the texts of a few buttons because users don't understand when their input is saved and/or lost.

When a user sees the button [Exit and clear survey], he/she thinks that the survey data will be lost.

Furtermore, the warning "Are you sure you want to clear all your responses?" is also frightening users to loose their data.

The user does not (always) understand that pressing [Previous] or [Next] will save the data.
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Solution #1: Rephrase some buttons and warning texts
Written by ronvdburg the 11 Aug 10 at 19:18.
I use the group-by-group mode.

====== Suggestion 1 =====
[Exit and clear survey] ==> [Logout]

The survey isn't actually cleared, because when I come back later (e.g. using the link in the invitation mail), I see what I entered earlier. The only data that I may loose is the data from the last page (= group).

======= Suggestion 2 ========
"Are you sure you want to clear all your responses?"
==>
"You will be logged out. Have you saved your results?"

The original message may frighten the user, while a [Next] or [Previous] button may have saved the data anyway.

======= Suggestion 3 ========
[Next] ==> [Next (and saved)]
[Previous] ==> [Previous (and saved)]

This clarifies to the user that pressing [Previous] and [Next] is a good way to save intermediate results before going to lunch.

======= Suggestion 4 ========
"One or more mandatory questions have not been answered. You cannot proceed until these have been completed"
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"One or more mandatory questions have not been answered. You cannot proceed until these have been completed. (Your intermediate results are saved.)"

This explains to the user that he/she cannot go to the next group, but the data has been saved anyway.

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Importing answers from a Type M Question (Multiple Options)  
Written by Kronik the 5 Aug 10 at 13:38. Related project: 1.x all. New
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.
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Solution #1: Importing answers from a Type M Question (Multiple Options)
Written by Kronik the 5 Aug 10 at 13:38.
I don't know much of programming, but an INSERTANS-like solution would be nice.
Or, if you could make the "other?" option of a question an answer-field itself.

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Multiple question types in array  
Written by neoporcupine the 30 Jul 10 at 02:36. Related project: 1.x all. New
There is a work a workaround for this but it is hideously complex and a dead end for non-programmers.

http://docs.limesurvey.org/tiki-index.php?page=Workarounds:+Question+design,+la yout+and+templating#Multiple_question_types_in_array

This type of question is critical for many of our research surveys and invalidates LimeSurvey as an option.

Implementation of the workaround in a user friendly fashion would place LimeSurvey as one of the very few online survey systems that offer this feature (only one survey system out of just over twenty investigated so far).
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Solution #1: Positional information in each question
Written by neoporcupine the 30 Jul 10 at 02:36.
SurveyMonkey has positional information for each question to wit:
Place on new row (default)
Place on same row as previous question

Additionally you would require line height options, display heading, display row labels, and possibly column width. (thinking arrays next to each other as well as single fields)

The downside to this is the tab order is column based; a small price to pay to allow this feature.

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More tailored invite emails  
Written by lovepade the 3 Aug 10 at 08:59. Related project: 1.x all. New
Currently the system can send out reminder emails, which is great. But the emails which people receive are identical regardless of whether they have already begun the survey (but not finished) or wether they have not begun the survey.

This is a problem because some people actually think that they have finished the surveye - or maybe forgot that the got interrupted. Some of theese people get annoyed when the recieve a confirmation mail.

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Solution #1: Separete mail templates for "reminder" and "reminder-begun"
Written by lovepade the 3 Aug 10 at 08:59.
I think it would be a great service to e.g. send out a reminder email along the lines of (maybe only with token-based persistency):

"Dear NAME,

Our survey-system has registered that you on date begun to answer the questionaire - but you did not answer all the questions.

You can continue where you left of here: surveyurl

If you do not wish to continue, please press this link and we will not send you anymore reminder emails link.


This is an automatic email. You answers are anonymous, the system have only registred that you did not finish the querstions. Nobody - not even the systemadministrator, will ever know wether you finished the whole survey or not.

If you have any questions please contact surveyadmemail"

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Template / css friendly statistics page  
Written by lovepade the 2 Aug 10 at 12:33. Related project: 1.x all. New
The statistics view is not as easy to theme / style as the rest of the survey.
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Solution #1: Create a small set of statistics templates
Written by lovepade the 2 Aug 10 at 12:33.
No solution - just a feeling that this could be a benifit.

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sending invitations at a predetermined date/time  
Written by Oli_71 the 27 Jul 10 at 17:10. Related project: 1.x all. New
It would be most wonderful, if one could provide the invitations with a date and/or timestamp in order to define the earliest date/time of posting them to the invited person.
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Solution #1: invitations by predetermined date and date
Written by Oli_71 the 27 Jul 10 at 17:10.
?

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Data Import / Data Handling  
Written by Morpheus the 27 Jul 10 at 12:34. Global category: Tokens. New
Currently the data import isn't very flexible. The possibility to import data from a ldap data source is basically a good idea but does not fit my needs exactly.

In case of recurring surveys every week it would be a great help if LimeSurvey would provide the possibility of a full data management solution instead of just using tokens from a csv or ldap import.
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Solution #1: Real Data-Management Support
Written by Morpheus the 27 Jul 10 at 12:34.
Great would be if the user could pick an ole-db provider to connect the dbms of his choice.

When the dbms is chosen LimeSurvey would have to provide campaigns which should be subdivided into different data groups (e.g. data group A represent people of zipcode 1, data group B represent people of zipcode 2 and so on).

Within one data group you can limit the data amount by just selecting specific records with a sql command of the specified data source

Each data group should be limited to a specific response quote for a specific question.

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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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Question Type: Array with text box behind each labels table  
Written by LuK123 the 14 Jul 10 at 16:36. Global category: Question types. New
Hello,

we use your program in our company. We are working on a project and need some assistance with a specific question type.

We use an array(Yes/No). But we need behind of each column (labels table) a text box, in order to make some notes, or to justify each answer wether "yes" or "no".

Is it possible that you create such a question type for us?

Cheers
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Solution #1: You create it and puplish it
Written by LuK123 the 14 Jul 10 at 16:36.
You create it and puplish it, that everyone will be able to take advantage of it!

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Allow multiple emails per respondent  
Written by erick the 6 Jul 10 at 21:18. Related project: 1.x all. New
By default, Limesurvey checks respondent emails so that each respondent can only have one email.
We find that allowing multiple emails, while still checking for their validity, would be a plus.
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Solution #1: Change validation regexp
Written by erick the 6 Jul 10 at 21:18.
The function validate_email() in common.php has a big regexp to check valid emails. We already changed it successfully by adding optional semicolon and whitespace at the end of an email.

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Notes attached to questions  
Written by Antongrau the 22 Jun 10 at 16:47. Global category: Question types. New
Often you want to let others review your work or you want to leave messages for yourself or others close to the questions that you work on.

Now you have to keep notes in a different document and that document is not necessarily updated.
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Solution #1: A Comment feature or a "review" mode
Written by Antongrau the 22 Jun 10 at 16:47.
A small feature would be a "Comment"/"Notes" button next the "Edit question" button. That button opens a window that lets you write a small note in plain text, that is attached to the question.

In the "Surveys" menu there could be a feature that gave you all the notes on one screen, with each question.

A better feature would be a "review" mode instead of a "test" mode. This feature would allow reviewers to add small comments (and view existing comments) when they test the survey.

The notes would of course not be visible when the survey was active.

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Spacing in the design layout  
Written by griffisblessing the 10 Jun 10 at 20:21. Global category: Templates. New
I'm brand spanking new to LimeSurvey - just installed and got it running this morning. I've already created a survey and published it, so I'd say things are going well. My feedback has to do with the graphic layout in the admin area, it feels a little cramped.
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Solution #1: Spacing in the design layout
Written by griffisblessing the 10 Jun 10 at 20:21.
I would like to see a little more spacing (breathing room) in between the icons for the control toolbars. Also, a little more vertical spacing between the sections (survey, group, item, etc.) would be appreciated. I know you're most likely just trying to conserve screen real estate - and I appreciate that - but I think a little spacing would be a relatively easy implementation and would add to the ease of use.

Thanks for all your hard work, it's certainly appreciated.

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