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.

Limesurvey's email capabilities are great. One crucial thing is missing though: Email tracking.

If an email adress is wrong I recieve a bounce. Thats great. But what if my email is never recieved? On dedicated servers this shouldn't be a problem - but on shared hosts, were you share an IP adress with severel others, theres is a chance that the IP adress at some point will be blacklisted by some emailproviders.

It could also be that you design your email with lots of pictures and "false" from headings, thus increasing your risc of being caught in spam folders.

But basically there is no way to know if a low response rate is due to lack of interest, og because people never read your invite.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

List-Unsubscribe is a mail message header used to provide machine readable unsubscribe instructions - an email address, a URL or both.

If List-Unsubscribe is present, some mail clients will offer a unsubscribe button and/or unsubscribe option if a user tries to flag the message as spam.

It is a recommended 'best practice' to improve message deliverability and do the right thing for the end user.

Documentation:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html
http://www.list-unsubscribe.com/

Gmail support: https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=81126#unsub
http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/gmail-tries-to-make-it-easier-to-unsubscribe-f rom-spam-newsletters-but-fails/

Microsoft support:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/3/3/e3397e7c-17a6-497d-9693-78f80be272 fb/enhance_deliver.pdf
(although may be broken?):
http://blog.deliverability.com/2011/04/has-hotmail-discarded-the-list-unsubscri be-functionality.html

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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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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

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...

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.