Administrer LimeSurvey

General

To administrate your LimeSurvey installation, click on the Configuration button located on the top toolbar of LimeSurvey home page:

The menu contains three tabs: settings, users, and advanced.

Settings tab

This tab contains five options with which you can customize your LimeSurvey installation:

• Home page settings
• Global settings
• Plugin manager
• Menu configuration
• Menu entries configuration

You can also customize your LimeSurvey installation from config.php. For more details, read our wiki on LimeSurvey optional settings.

Users tab

The Users tab contains options related to the users and participants' management. If wish to offer different survey or/and global permissions to your employees/helpers, you have to create users to whom to grant permissions. For an easy management, the users can be grouped into user groups. The central participant database (CPDB) contains survey participants who are allocated to more than one survey or/and are shared with other LimeSurvey survey administrators. Three options are located under the Users tab:

• Manage survey administrators
• Create/edit user groups
• Central participant database

Advanced tab

You may find under this tab options that are nor users- or settings-related. The Advanced tab contains functionalities that you can use to enhance your survey or your LimeSurvey installation:

• Template editor
• Manage label sets
• Check data integrity
• Backup entire database
• ComfortUpdate