Every now and then we find incomplete surveys.
The user might get bored in the middle (happens usually for long surveys) and/or close his browser window (can be sometimes unexpectedly ) which results in incomplete survey.

Many shared hosting providers have an hourly limit on how many emails you can send out.

To manage this limit, you have to babysit LimeSurvey and press the button in batches.

If you exceed the hourly limit, bunches of emails will not go out and often you will receive bounced email messages. It is a mess to determine who did get your invitation / reminder and who did not.

I need to collect more contact information on registration such as phone number, address, etc.

I can add an attribute for it (tokens) but then when the user visits, it does not ask for this info.

So, basically my idea is to have a setting "Public" and "Required" for attributes in tokens. Then, I can add an attribute such as "Phone Number" and set it to public and required and the user will be required to provide it to take the survey.

The eVote/"The Clerk" project from Marilyn Davis has not seen additional development for five years +. See:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6448

Moreover, email is no longer the "killer app" for online elections/polling and surveys.

With the ability to use time-limited tokens multiple times, the user-friendly interface of LimeSurvey, combined with social networking and online collaboration tools, could provide a secure online collaboration/deliberation suite to allow any number of participants to take part in online debate, and, most importantly, change their opinions and their votes any number of times within a set time-span.

As the principal researcher of the Open Source Learning Lab (OSLL) at Lethbridge College in Alberta, Canada, I am proposing a massively collaborative data-collection project. While omnibus political polling of randomly selected respondents would be done in our open source call centre, many surveys would be most useful when gathering opinions from invited members of various communities of practice. Inter-institutional surveys among colleges and universities re. best practices in teaching and learning are my primary interest at present.

The ability to allow invited participants (hundreds, or even thousands) to reuse a token an unlimited number of times within an agreed upon time-span would allow large-scale collaboration in defining problems, and collectively forming opinion through deliberation and debate.

Jim Manis, PHD
Open Source Learning Lab, Lethbridge College
3000 College Drive South
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K1L6
(403) 382-6978
jim.manis@lethbridgecollege.ca

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I would like to replace the surveyurl in the invitation e-mail ( and the reminder mail) by a button. Potential respondents are not interested in the numbers the see now.

If one uses LimeSurvey for Voting it would be good if one can publish the list of votes at the end, so each voter can check, if his vote is recorded correctly.

For this to work, the user should receive a code under which the vote is recorded. This code should be different from the token, since otherwise the token sender can correlate the vote to the email address.

It must also be ennsured that the code cannot be issued twice by LimeSurvey.

Hi,

what about this feature:

A daily status-mail from an active survey, witch show the progress of the users in a tokenbased survey.

Menu in admin-section:
Status type: Questionnumber or Group
Time: XX:XX
Email: XX@xx.de

Result - maybe an excel sheet with:

Survey: Sample
----------G1 | G2 | G3 | G4
user01: ø ø
user02: ø ø ø
user03: ø ø ø ø

Two problems here:

One:

I know you can prepopulate answers for token based persistance by adding the "&" the question string "=" the answer code. However:

A) You cant do this for 25+ prefilled answers, for one the url is way too long, and secondly, LS doesnt support it

B) You can only do this for token based surveys, not open ones


Two:

If you send multiple tokens to the same email address, it creates a cookie once the person completes one survey, if they try to open another while they have ANY browsers open, it catches that cookie, marks the second token as complete and will not allow the person emailed to complete the survey, not only that but it leaves all answers blank for the second survey. Then I have to tell the person to close their browesers and I have to reopen the token.

Hi,
I explain with an example:

I have the same survey to do, but there are two different kind of partecipants.
One group is formed by industry managers, politicians, etc; the second one is formed by journalists, opinion leader, professors, etc.
So I would send a different invitation for each group. The first in a formal language and the second in a more friendly language.
I can import addresses and use the attributes to identify the group belonging for each partecipant.

But then?