Alternativen zur Import-Funktion von LimeSurvey

Import using the commandline utility

From version 1.50 to 1.92 it was possible to import surveys from the command line (or shell). To use this functionality, you need to have access to the shell and the PHP interpreter has to be configured to allow shell execution of scripts.

Diese Funktion war nützlich, wenn Sie z.B. Probleme mit Timeout in der GUI hatten, wenn man sehr große Umfragen importieren will.

To use it, go to the limesurvey/admin folder in the shell and execute:

php cmdline_importsurvey <File to import> [<user> <password>]

• <File to import> has to be one of the described above;
• <user> has to be a user with permission to create surveys;
• <password> the password for the user;

If you need to see the parameters, you can execute:

php cmdline_importsurvey -h

Import using RemoteControl API

Since LimeSurvey version 2.0, you can import a survey structure by using the RemoteControl 2 API.

Umfrage aus anderen Applikationen importieren

We are often getting requests to import a survey from other applications or survey providers. The problem is that providers (like SurveyMonkey) lock you in - it is not possible to export the survey structure (e.g. from SurveyMonkey), but only the response data.