Hello

I try your 1.71 LimeSurvey Tools
(We currently Use Opinio www.objectplanet.com/opinio/ that is a commercial product but because of closed code we have big issue when we want to make so specific plugins
I encourage you trying this tool because they have good ideas)
)

So I try the 1.71 and

The first point is that creating a survey is easy but inserting a question is not "Natural"
the label Groups make me think about users and not group of question
(Of course there is a Users groups but when I saw that it was just not the label I was looking for) "Section" is The term used in Opinio


The second point is the possibility to create virtual Forlder so I can regroup Survey in folder and that is really more clean (with some rule like by default a survay has the same rigth that the folder it was created in)

The third point is the possibility to create a copy of a survey

I really think that this tool is very powerful but the interface is less "natural" than in other product (I saw you were looking for a designer and I think this can be a great thing)

Good Continuation

Thankls for sharing your thoughts. I'll forward your ideas to the development team.

Right now we are working on limesurvey 2.0 which will be completely re-designed. You can take a first look at design.limesurvey.org/

There will be a first alpha release coming soon and I think it's planned to install a LS2.0 demo survey.

The new Version is very very clean and nice

Really cool evolution

It was really necessary to improve the design

LW,

Duplicating a survey - very good suggestion. We recently added that to the Beta requirements.

Can you explain in more detail the idea of survey grouping and folders? I'm not quite catching the idea.

Thanks in advance,
Juhan

Hello,


the idea is just like file on a drive it is more efficient if we have many survey to organize them in folder/directory

Today all survey are at the same level

rootsurvey1
rootsurvey2
rootsurvey3
rootsurvey4

but we can image survey 2 and 3 are used by the same team

if I can organize them with folder I can have a virtual organisation like this

rootsurvey1
rootmarketingsurvey2
rootmarketingsurvey3
rootmarketingprivatesurvey4
rootcommunicationsurvey6
rootcommunicationprivatesurvey5

But now I have the structure i can hide a part of the structure like in windows Explorer

First Screen
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Home Page

Folder :
- marketing
- communication

Survey :
- survey 1
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Only Survey 1 is visible
if I click on marketing folder

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Home Page > Marketing

Folder :
- private

Survey :
-Survey 2
-Survey 4
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So if user wants to have all there survey in front folder : it is Ok

But if we wants to organize survey by theme it is more easy to manage many survey

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IMPLEMENTATION SUGGESTION
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Note : This is a suggestion for somenone that don't look ate the current code of the application

the implementation is not to hard (without right management)
1) add an attribute folder_id to the survey

2) create a table for folder (folder-table)
folder_id (Number) key, index (auto increment)
folder_name (CHAR 50?) not-null
parent_id (number) not_null default 0

in my exemple in the database you have that

folder_id | folder_name...| parent_id
1.........| marketing.....| 0
2.........| private.......| 1
3.........| communication.| 0
4.........| private.......| 3

for easiest management perhaps we can set (folder_name/parent_id) as unique