Hi!

I'm new to LimeSurvey and already tested the online demo. It's a great tool!

But for a more complex survey, I would need some feauture, for which I don't know how to implement them:

sub-groups / multiple survey in one login:
To make the survey more easy to handle, I would need some sort of sub-groups in one survey or multiple surveys with normal groups, which can be accessed with only one login. I would need a structure like this:

login
- survey 1
-- group a
--- question 1
--- question 2
--- ...
-- group b
-- ...
- survey 2
-- group a
--- question 1
--- question 2
--- ...
-- group b
-- ...

or

login to survey
- group 1
-- sub-group a
--- question 1
--- question 2
--- ...
-- sub-group b
-- ...
- group 2
-- sub-group a
--- question 1
--- question 2
--- ...
-- sub-group b
-- ...


navigation
Since I am convinced that the asked person will not be able to fill out the more complex survey in one session, I need in addition to the save-the-answers-function a navigation to the groups/sub-groups mentionned above. Therefor I need to be able to link to those (sub-)groups. I know, that doesn't make a lot of sense with a sequential survey in mind, but this would be an essential feauture for my project!

I hope anyone can give me some advise to implement my needed functionality...

Thanks a lot!
Malte

I think you can use multi survey, and when you import your token, you can use token column to put the password.

But i think it's difficult to manage.

Answer group2, save, comebak, answer group1 etc ....

Somehow I don't really understand what you mean. Cold you be please more detailed? Thank you!

It's for the second option.

You can use multiple survey with the same token table.
Export your token table, and you can reimport with the same token.


Token is like a password.



At the first page, you show the list of your survey, user choose the survey they want and put the 'password' (token).


At each survey they can save when they want, but they can't choose to do Group2 before group1 (you can put all question optionnable, and use group by group survey. Maybe it's a possibility)

Creating multiple surveys with the same token / password and a navigation page to them would be an option I guess. But the users would need to login to every single survey, don't they? Not much of comfort. Hmmm...

But thanks for the adivse!

Anyone with other ideas?

Thanks a lot!!!
Malte

Linking to groups isn't possible because this might inflict the whole survey logic (conditions, assessments, saving, ...).

If this is an essential feature you have to split your questions/groups into several surveys where users can use the same token so you can put the results together later.

At the start page (www.yourdomain.org/limesurvey) you can have a list of all surveys. After clicking the link the user has to enter his token.
You can also place the link to the nex survey at the ednpage of the previous one.

Thanks for the replay!

That is probably the way to go, although multiply logins would be required - which isn't that nice.

Greetings
Malte