Hello to all,

I am quite new to LimeSurvey and I'm having some problems.

After migrate my installation to a different server, I can't get answer persistence to work. Appropriate settings are correct in the administration panel (Enable token-based answers persistence and NOT Anonymous survey) and there are proper tables/entries with tokens in the database.

Lime Survey version is 1.85RC3 (7008), PHP is 5.3.5 VC6 (thread safe), Apache is 2.2 and MySQL is 5.5.8. Could this be a platform incompatibility? Previous setup was PHP 5.2.0 and MySQL 5.0.something.

Thank you in advance

vidiadakis wrote: Can(t you uupdate to last version ?

It's a bit diffcult rigth now, because the survey is already activated - there wasn't enough time to fully test it before going live.

Shouldn't it be working as is though?

You should never use the RC (release candidate) version for production use because they might not be stable/bug free. I recommend to manually update to 1.85 stable or to the latest 1.90 stable version.

Basically I'm stuck with this version now. Anyway, how can I verify the way persistence is or is not working? Is it javascript based or php based? I can't seem to identify the proper code segment to update the lime_survey_XXXXX table containing the answers after every reply of the user.

Bump!

So, we ended up installing the latest LS (1.90+) on a different directory for testing purposes and to try if persistence is working, but the results are the same.

Does by any chance the all-in-one option of our survey cause this behaviour? Are there any specific PHP extensions required for this to work?

Thanks in advance...

vidiadakis wrote: Answer of question are only fill when you submit the actual page. When you fill and don't submit, you don't send something to the server , then LimeSurvey can't remind the answer.

It can work with all-in-one, because in all-in-one you submit and close y=the survey.

If you want a semi all-in one :
Use a big group with all question, and a little group of confirlation (just a boiler plate : "when you click submit your answer was closed" or something like that )

But what you describe is not persistence... and I quote from the online documentation:

Like a save button embedded on each answer.

Am I wrong?

Difference between submit a survey and submit a page.

Like i say, LS is unable to do survey persistance if you don't submit something to the server.

In all in one , you can use it to prefill a survey with data entry.

Ok that description might be a little misleading. It is a wiki so feel free to improve it

Basically the persistance means that each time you go to the next section (that can be question or group) the answers are saved. In all-in-one mode you can only submit a complete survey. The only thing persistance could do there is partially save when not all questions pass validation and submit throws you back to the survey. Not sure if that really works that way, but that is the only thing it can do for you in all-in-one mode.