First of all, thanks for such a great opensource product!

I have a few questions on capabilities, if you'd oblige me. Thanks in advance...

Does LimeSurvey have:

1. The ability to generate a survey link on our own and email it to a client. We don't want the survey company to send the e-mails since we will most likely be initiating those from NetSuite.

2. The ability to append query data to the end of the survey URL and save that data with the survey results. This will allow us to submit a case or customer ID with the survey so that the results can be tracked back to a specific record in NetSuite.

3. The survey results need to somehow be returned to NetSuite. The easiest way to do this will be for the survey company to send the results via HTTP POST. We need to make sure that the custom query data we are sending with the URL in #2 will be sent back to us along with the survey results.


Thanks!

1. Depends on your survey settings. If you want restricted access you need a token for each participant. This token is added to the url which leads to the survey. These tokens in general are created by limesurvey and the emails are normally sent by limesurvey, too.
But you can import participants data including token. So in the end you just ahve to know the token and add it to the url to send an invitation mail from any program.

2. This can be done using some workarounds. Lots of users have had similiar requirement. I recommend to search the forum ("end url", "add data" or the like) and take a look at manual -> workarounds.

3. Please explain how/why you want to send the whole survey data back to NetSuite. Need more details on this.

3. We need to send the survey results back to NetSuite in real time (our CRM), because the values could trigger an event in NetSuite. Is there any way to do this without a manual export?

Thanks in advance!

If you want to react to a recently filled out survey I always recommend the following approach:
1. Assign an end-url to a survey (see survey settings).
2. Set the survey to auto-load the URL.
3. Pass some ID data to the then loaded page
4. Continue with what you want to do e.g. read the data of the latest participant from DB and send it to another application.

Is there any way to do Step 3 without scripting? From the GUI? Thanks!

delfinparis wrote:
Is there any way to do Step 3 without scripting? From the GUI? Thanks!
No.
Just write the needed data into a session and read the data in the following script.