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To alleviate the problems caused by survey URL's split by email program  
Written by JEfromCanada the 30 Nov 11 at 07:47. Global category: Tokens. New
If Lime Survey is installed in such a way that the root url for the survey is a long character string, the generated SURVEYURL may be longer than the line size of the email program.

This results in the email program splitting the survey link over multiple lines, and in many email programs, these split URL's no longer function (i.e. the portion of the URL that does not fit on the first line is visible, but no longer part of the actual URL). Clicking on such a broken link will lead to a failed attempt to access the survey, frustrating the invitee.
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Solution #1: Add a new variable SHORTSURVEYURL which can be used as the invitation link
Written by JEfromCanada the 30 Nov 11 at 07:47.
I propose that one or more of the commonly used URL shortening services be contacted to determine if they have an API that would allow Lime Survey (or Lime Service) to call the URL shortening service with the value of SURVEYURL and return with a value which would be stored in SHORTSURVEYURL.

The user would have the option of using the SHORTSURVEYURL in email templates to guarantee that survey urls generated by Lime Survey would be shorter than the "typical" line size of an email program.

After initially posting this idea, I came across an existing API for the tinyurl service. Rather than repeating the code here, I will reference the page where it can be found...

http://www.richardcastera.com/blog/creating-a-tinyurl-with-tinyurl-api

The fact that this API already exists means that Lime Survey does not need to search for a URL shortening API!

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Token search is lacking (filtering)  
Written by lovepade the 8 Nov 11 at 15:27. Global category: Tokens. New
I just had a need to filter my tokens on a specifc attribute, but the search functionality seems only to adress tokens, names and email adress. But my custom attributes was not searched.
Fortunately I had uploaded my tokens in an orderly way, which made is possible to do what I wanted.
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Solution #1: Autofilter or search
Written by lovepade the 8 Nov 11 at 15:27.
In my case an autofilter solution like what is implemented in the typical spreadsheet application whould suffice. (as long as it is implemented on all fields).

But more general speaking the ability to apply a search criteria to all fiels would be very welcome.

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Attributes for survey (in addtion to attributes for tokens)  
Written by bkgray the 6 Nov 11 at 20:20. Global category: Tokens. New
I run many surveys that use closed access and multiple token attributes for each user. I recycle several of these surveys over the course of an academic year, or from year to year.

In these surveys, there are several places where some text should change for each run of the survey, but should be consistent within the run. For example, one survey is used to collect vacation travel plans from students. The name of the vacation changes every time I run the survey, but it appears in several places within the survey and in the invitation emails. Similarly, I specify dates (used for input validation) that are the same for all students but change for each vacation.

Currently, I manage this by using a token attribute to specify the text, and refer to that attribute throughout the survey and email text as appropriate. This works, but it requires that I add the text as an attribute to the token for each student, even though it's the same for each student.

I would like to suggest a feature that would create a set of attributes for the survey, in addition to the attributes for each token.
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Solution #1: Attributes at survey level
Written by bkgray the 6 Nov 11 at 20:20.

I would like to suggest a feature that would create a set of attributes for the survey, in addition to the attributes for each token.

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registration for one more Attribute  
Written by fjf123 the 8 Sep 11 at 14:55. Global category: Tokens. New
there is only three Attribute must be filled:firstname lastname and email. so it limited much information for survey that the administrator want to know, it is very good for add one more Attribute, and it must be filled.
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Solution #1: add one more Attribute
Written by fjf123 the 8 Sep 11 at 14:55.
it is very good for add one more Attribute, and it must be filled.

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allow token fieldname instead of attribute_1, autoimport  
Written by tacman1123 the 5 Feb 12 at 13:06. Global category: Tokens. New
When I import a CSV file into the tokens table, using attribute_1, attribute_2, etc., is awkward, I'd much rather use company_name, website, etc., whatever my fields are.

Then conditions and defaults could use those same names, e.g. TOKEN:COMPANY_NAME

An auto-import function would be nice, something that could take a file like

email,website,company_name,year_founded,industry

and import it into the tokens table, automatically adding any new fields that weren't there.
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Solution #1: add fieldname in tokens definition
Written by tacman1123 the 5 Feb 12 at 13:06.
When tokens are defined, instead of merely asking "how many", it would need to change to a list format that asked the field names (and types, but that's a different issue!)

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