Hey everyone, As you may know, the new version of LimeSurvey is here! We made several changes to the user interface to improve the user experience. So we have been working on making the first steps in terms of stabilizing and improving the user interface. More enhancements are on the way, we will keep you posted. The following is the new UI design changelog for the latest version of LimeSurvey. We will update you on even more changes to the user interface and other new features in future articles. Below you will find the major user interface improvements to help you get started quickly and easily. Enjoy! “Create survey” shortcut in main navigation You just want to get going and cut to the chase? Great, just choose the first item from the main navigation and you’re ready to go. One click and you are exactly where you want to be, the survey section. Modals (Pop-Ups) All pop-ups in the application now have the same style and are built according to a certain structure to make the whole workflow more user-friendly. Page headers To get a better understanding of where you are in the application we have introduced green banners at the top of every screen of the application. Top bar The most important action buttons have been moved to the top bar and the amount of action buttons has been reduced to the essentials. Action buttons All action buttons are now styled in the same way and one specific action will always have the same icon associated with it for consistency. The most important actions are consistently positioned in the same location, to the left of the top bar. Furthermore, the most important action buttons have been moved to the left-hand side of all tables and we brought consistency in terms of icons, hovers, margins and the order of buttons. Additionally, small text balloons will appear when hovering over them, explaining the functionality of the concerning button. Tables All tables now have a new grid view class and are consistently styled and structured. You will find all buttons to help you see more information or make edits on the far left-hand side of the table. This helps you better manage your surveys, data and survey participants. Icons and small elements Three different icons for a single functionality like “Save”? No thanks! One icon is associated with exactly one functionality to make the design more accessible. The consistency makes for a better user experience. We also synchronized other small elements like dropdown-menu icons, page buttons of tables, main navigation elements and notifications. Pagination Under every table of the application you can now find consistent pagination to the far right-hand side. You can determine how many items you want your table to show you and, by doing so, customize your survey management. We hope you enjoy the new version! Now it is even easier to turn your questions into answers. We will update this changelog with more content whenever there are new elements to the user interface.More blog posts with specifics about these improvements and other changes to the user interface will follow in the upcoming period, so stay tuned. Have a nice day, everybody!
User Interface Design Changelog

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The new question editor Starting with LimeSurvey Developer Edition 4.0.0beta1, a new question editor will be provided. It has been completely redesigned, as it was split up and not very easy to use. The new system provides a live-preview mode to help users easily edit questions, as well as subquestions and answer option in the same window. The new design is based on VueJS2 and CKEditor 5. We have also added a script field to the question editing, where you can add scripts that should be run with the question. It is automatically wrapped in the necessary on:ready functions. New text- and source editor The popup editor has been removed. We have added in exchange a pure source mode based on the ACE-editor, the same one used in our theme editor. Now it is easier to work with the source code of your questions, subquestions, question groups, and any other text edition fields in LimeSurvey. The source mode can be set to the default mode in the personal options. Global survey options With LimeSurvey 4 you are able to change your global survey options. The global options will be inherited by any survey in the system. Moreover, you can see the inherited value in the overviews. This goes the same way as the design theme options introduced in LimeSurvey 3: Global survey settings -> Survey group settings -> Survey settings Other notable changes The most important changes are hidden from sight. The database has been restructured, languages are now fully normalized, providing us the opportunity to build the foundations of a limitless survey software.The first steps to a fully modularized survey rendering are also done with this version. The question types now consist of a data renderer, a view renderer, and a twig package, making it easy to correct and fix question-related issues. We’ve added a few other extra options, like question-based encryption settings, as well as soft-mandatory question attributes. Future development We are currently removing papercuts in the newly created functionalities and recreating the functions that were available before the changes. We will also add in the upcoming weeks a way to upload and use custom question themes in LimeSurvey 4.Some parts are still not working perfectly and we are in heavy testing to find all possible edge cases. If you wish to help us, please download the beta release, test it, and report all the issues found on our bugs tracker. Join our forum discussion about the new release and stay tuned for more information about the development of LimeSurvey 4!

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2FA is a way to add additional security to your account. It is called "two-factor-authentication" because two verification methods are used to access your account. The first "factor" is your usual password that is standard for any account. The second "factor" is a verification code retrieved from a 2FA application either from your computer or mobile device. For more details about 2FA and its importance, please visit the following article. Set Up 2FA To see it at work, please create a free LimeSurvey account, access your LimeSurvey instance, and activate it from your Plugin Manager: Once enabled, you and your users can activate it from your own personal 2FA settings. To access them, click on the “2-Factor-Settings” menu item located on the top bar and select "2FA-Setting": On the next page, click on “Register 2FA now”: Once done, you will be prompted by the following message box: Select the 2FA authentication method. By default, five different 2FA types are provided: Google Authenticator (default), Authy, YubiKey, Authenticator Plus, Duo, and HDE OTP. Scan the QR-code with your mobile phone. For a list of application recommendations, check this article. Enter the confirmation key displayed in your 2FA application (by default, a six-numeric code). Once done, click on button "Create 2FA binding". To test it, please log out and log in again: Congratulations! You have just enhanced the security of your LimeSurvey instance! Enforce 2FA If you wish to enforce this security measure, go to Plugin Manager, and configure the 2FA system at the global level. The following page will be loaded: Please go to the last option, enable Force 2FA, and save the changes. In this way, your users will be forced to create a 2FA key after their first login. If you have the necessary global permission, you can check under the 2FA administration panel which users are using the 2FA system (see the last column): Deactivate/Reset 2FA To deactivate 2FA authentication, go to your personal 2FA settings and click on "Unset 2FA": Confirm your action to delete the 2FA-token associated to your account. Please note that you will need to re-authenticate again if "Force 2FA" is enabled from the plugin settings. In case you cannot login anymore into your instance and you wish to reset your 2FA settings, contact your LimeSurvey instance super administrator to delete the 2FA-token associated to your account. That way, you will be able to login again into your account and create a new 2FA-token. Try the plugin and let us know what are your thoughts. Join our forum discussion topic! We are looking forward to hearing your feedback! Additional Information Please note that all token authentication systems that provide time based hash tokens work with the plugin. For more details about the plugin, please check this wiki page.
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Examples of using LimeSurvey Possible fields of application You can use LimeSurvey for any type of data collection.Due to our well-tested software, we offer you a complete survey environment. With a few clicks, you have a fully functional survey. The simple translation function makes it easy for you to adjust your survey directly and expand your target audience effectively. Best suitable for recurring employee surveys. Simply copy and reuse the survey. Start now! More power for your online survey The extensive functionality of LimeSurvey will help you get the best handling for your data collection.We constantly optimize our infrastructure for maximum availability and guarantee an availability rate of at least 99%. With our powerful servers in Germany, Canada, the United States and Australia we are offering you an optimal access speed from almost any location. Ready for all demands Whether market research, customer surveys or studies for master / diploma / bachelor thesis - with LimeSurvey you have a tool at hand to effectively ask your questions. Just check out our demo, or create a free installation with LimeSurvey Pro, to see how easy it is to create and manage surveys. If you are not yet convinced or have any questions, please contact our sales department.
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Employee surveys The online survey tool for employee surveys Employees are the engine of a company, the latter stands and falls with employee motivation, efficency and productivity. There‘s no value in a great customer base if the employees don‘t follow. Thus, it is essential to make sure employees are appreciated, motivated and their well being is taken care of. Hence, the core mission is to find out how your employees score on these different yet equally important dimensions. A great way to achieve this is by simply asking them. LimeSurvey offers you a tool to create a questionnaire for your employees.Capture the opinion of your employees anonymously and honestly. Our built-in methods for anonymisation and evaluation ensure an effective analysis of the ideas and the honest criticism of your employees. A simple and effective way to analyse employee satisfaction. Easy handling due to the built-in email functionality In just a few steps you have created a participant database from your telephone list, which you can easily import. Using a comfortable participant management system, the survey can be carried out 100% anonymously. Increase employee satisfaction Measure the satisfaction of your employees with short questionnaires. Increase motivation with an employee suggestion panel for new ideas. Please contact our sales department for further information. Create Survey Now
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Customer feedback Customer reviews with Limesurvey Your customers are your capital which makes it essential for you to find out their likes and desires. Customer feedback is one of the most important factors in establishing a successul business as it will help you gain insights into customer satisfaction, potential for product or service improvements as well as retaining customers by facilitating the creation of great customer experiences.LimeSurvey supports you in undertaking this contacting process. Create a questionnaire to empower your customers to voice their honest and direct opinion to you. After all, the customer is king. Easily create a customer survey LimeSurvey enables you to prepare your individualized customer survey. You may choose from more than 28 different question types, conduct the survey in several countries at once, and draw on more than 80 languages. You may invite your customers straight from within the LimeSurvey software and increase your return rate due to an efficient invitation management system. Existing surveys can be copied and used repeatedly to keep an eye on customer satisfaction. Direct questions – direct answers In order to improve your fulfilment rate, use LimeSurvey to remind invited participants, if necessary multiple times, from within the tool to take your survey. LimeSurvey´s mass mailing function allows you to do it comfortably with just a few clicks. Mature analysis tools Analyse your customers‘ needs and adjust your surveys by using branching and skip-logic to achieve the highest possible relevance of questions for your customers.Check your results either in the tool's statistics view or export them to SPSS®, R, or Microsoft Excel®.Any questions? Just contact us for more information or email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Create Survey Now
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Feedback with LimeSurvey Your feedback survey - anonymous and secure According to Albert Einstein 'Once you stop learning, you start dying'. The process of learning is therefore essential to move forward in life. One of the best ways to do this is to draw on feedback from others for improvement. For this reason, LimeSurvey provides a variety of features to create surveys and get honest and direct feedback, be it for your event, your company or your customer well-being. Great features for analysis LimeSurvey offers you a wide range of analysis tools.Whether it's the detailed response view, or the easy and clear statistics with graphs. With LimeSurvey it will be easy for you to set up your data. Honest answers - trustworthy handling Easily get feedback anonymously and honestly. Simply activate the anonymisation of your survey. Thus, responses are logically separated from participant data and your participants can give you fair and honest feedback. Create Survey Now
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The enormous effort and time this consumed made it very difficult for conducting quantitative research. Potential respondents had to be researched, approached, questioned and subsequently data had to be processed and evaluated by hand to derive proper results. Response rates during these early times of survey research were astonishingly high and could often reach 90% or higher levels. This was due to the huge effort of the process which resulted in only very few surveys being conducted at all. The next stage of survey-taking from approximately the 1960s until the 1990s included questionnaires via telephone, i.e. cold-calling potential respondents that were verbally asked a list of survey questions. The present of surveys From the 1990s until today, face-to-face interviews declined due to difficulties in contacting and interviewing target audiences for personal questioning, but also the number of telephone surveys decreased due to the prevalence of mobile phones. However, technological advancements in the shape of new communication channels running via the internet and an increasing network of users online lead to a shift in survey research. Web-based surveys became the prominent way to collect research data from questioning people as they were contactable at any time and any location in large quantities. As a result, adjustments had to be introduced that would change population construction, survey sampling, survey design, statistical evaluations as well as technological expertise in mastering new tools for data acquisition. Due to lower costs per respondent acquisition since the arrival of the internet, people have been overloaded with the quantity and exposure of online surveys, thus leading to strong response rate drops. Consequently, more money has been necessary to recruit samples large enough to meet survey specifications. Strangely, making contact with prospective respondents is harder nowadays than it used to be in past times despite the technological possibilities. No technology at its current status quo can automatically persuade people to participate in surveys, especially when the aforementioned overload puts people in an emotional state of aversion towards survey invitations. Nevertheless, due to the availability of vast personal data and survey panel providers, targeting the most suitable potential respondents for a representative population sample as well as voluntary and beneficial survey participation options have only become possible due to the intelligence of technological innovations. The interplay and long-term consequences of the negative and positive factors attributed to modern-day survey research methods and approaches cannot be conclusively forecasted at this point in time. What is safe to say though is that technology will keep advancing in the future and with it the tools and possibilities to conduct survey-based research. The future of surveys The question remains what the future of survey research will look like. This question affects several factors or entities involved with survey research. What will future survey tools and methods look like? What will future peoples' attitudes or general emotions toward surveys be like? How will future survey creators deal with possibly tremendous shifts in their professional fields? We have put together some theories on how survey research may change and affect these aspects in question. Issues concerning high respondent survey fatigue and low response rates will most likely prevail within the future, especially due to digital communication opportunities that tempt many people or organisations to get their surveys out there. → This will potentially require an even stronger incentivisation or compensation of surveys for respondents to overcome inhibitions or aversions. Interactive surveys might become a predominant form of conducting surveys, thereby enabling respondents to chat with survey creators. → This might increase the attractiveness of general survey experiences due to a proper dialog, a kind of hybrid of old and new methods, i.e. bringing the old-school face-to-face interview format into a digital survey context. Open text questions will be increasingly easy to analyse for artificial intelligence (AI) tools and therefore deployed more often without concerns about the evaluation. → This might benefit survey creators in a manner that it offers more flexibility and appreciation for respondents who may then respond in their own words instead of being forced into a certain response grid. The current trend toward the dominance of mobile survey-taking will likely persist and grow. → Depending on the technological direction we are going to take with regard to portable smartphone computers, responsive web technologies will remain most important also for survey tools; furthermore humans' attention spans within digital environments will continue to converge to zero. A potential alternative approach with respect to technological advancements could be surveys conducted via augmented or virtual reality experiments, i.e. putting people into a digital environmental context or a real-life-digital-hybrid context where real-life interviews or surveys are simulated which ultimately might augment the entire survey-taking experience. There is a reasonable possibility that a replacement of human respondents by intelligent machines might take place when conducting surveys to avoid the central issue of survey fatigue. → Machines with sufficient learning progress may hence represent opinions of a human population which would render human respondents obsolete. Looking even farther into the future with an even more speculative theory, the possibility of humans and machines fusing to create cyborgs of sorts may alter survey research as we know it. This could potentially someday enable survey creators to download contents including opinions and feedback from respondents' brains which will render the actual process of taking surveys obsolete. Admittedly though, this is rather far-fetched at this moment in time. Nevertheless, just like any other area of our everyday lives, survey research will continue to be subject to intense paradigmatic shifts in the future which might bring a new sense of excitement to this field again.