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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

An iterate survey is dedicated to the case where one finds it convenient for the participant to see the survey prefilled with his previous answers when he participates for a t+1 time to the survey. Currently, all previous answers are conserved, without possibility to set some preserved and others eliminated.

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.

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.

Having to create a anonymous survey that have to be done once by the user, I use the token management screen that you provide.

Even if the survey is anonymous, the administrator can deduct wich candidate has completed the survey.

First by having an email notification and looking into the token management screen to see wich one of the user has completed the survey.

It's a scretch (if you have a lot of user), but it a risk. (for me at least) but a real treath for the fisrt user who respond to the survey...

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

I would like to give a person who completed a survey a unique code, that they can use to redeem a free item. The code is in the token database, in my case in the Last Name field. So I would like to add, for example TOKEN:LASTNAME replacement field in my End Message text that you can define in Survey Settings. This would then work the same as in the Welcome screen or a question.
I can also seeing it used to display the full name, personalized message, or unique instructions based by token.

USE CASE#1

I have a retail customer with an extensive customer database. The customer's Point of Sale (POS) system has the ability to build a URL to build a URL with the customers data.

At the end of each sale, the customers name, email address and perhaps a few user defined fields would be passed to lime survey. The API should return either a success or failed response, and limesurvey should automatically generate the token.

The user then receives the invitation to the survey automatically very soon after they have left the store.

This customers survey is very short NPS type survey. The NPS is most valid the sooner the user can take the survey.

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USE CASE#2
Another user I have could also benefit. I could create a simple local file on her hard drive that when opened in a browser asks a few simple inputs, does a little bit of error checking on the fields, assembles the URL and POSTS its.

As above she would receive a success or fail return.

Currently she uses the admin interface several times a day to sadd a single new invitation. Again in this case the more timely the invitation to the survey is sent the more accurate the response will be.





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Currently, LS defaults to display 50 tokens, and it would be good to be able to easily change that setting without going into the PHP file.

I often have surveys with over 50 respondents, and it is inconvenient to always have to change the number of tokens displayed in order to see them all.

In invitations, the keyword EXPIRY can be used to indicate the expiration date of the survey, but the tokens are usable from 'validfrom' until 'validuntil'.

Furthermore, it is not possible to send an invitation in advance, before the date of 'validfrom' is exceeded.

Does anyone know if it is possible recover the code responded to a question previously answered? The Comen INSERTANS: SSSSXGIDXQID returns the text of selected item, is there any command that returns the code? This would be useful in a multilingual questionnaire, for each language in the text changes, but the code remained the same.