Sometimes you want Limesurvey users to enter text of a certain length at your survey. In order to provide them with some feedback about the number of characters added, you can make use of the strlen() function* of the Limesurvey Expression Manager for counting the number of characters.* Function strlen() returns the number of bytes [...] read more
ContentsIntroductionAdding tooltips to Limesurvey survey elementsTooltip core elementsAdjusting the tooltip stylesTooltips for Limesurvey answer optionsAdditional information and downloads Introduction Tooltips are a useful feature if you want to add lengthy explanations to certain keywords or answer options at Limesurvey. Since Limesurvey v3.0 the Bootstrap framework is available for all Limesurvey templates which enables you to [...] read more
Limesurvey provides various randomization features at different levels and you should make use of it for various reasons. Especially at market research surveys randomizing items is a must-have feature in order to collect data properly. Another use case is A/B testing where you randomly show version A or B or a question for comparing the [...] read more
Randomizing answer items is an often used approach at scientific surveys and market research. At Limesurvey this can easily be done. Just go to the advanced question settings of a certain question and then set “Random order” to “Randomize on each page load“. But often such a list contains an option like “Don’t know” or [...] read more
Especially after a new version was released, there can be lots of new bug fix releases within a short time for a new Limesurvey version. These “New release available” messages always pop up after having logged in at the admin interface and it can get a little annoying to get rid of them by clicking [...] read more
We have often been asked if there is or will be a Limesurvey app and we always had to answer “no”. Up to now the best approach for running Limesurvey on a mobile device was to design your survey properly and use a mobile optimized Limesurvey template so it scales nicely on smaller screens. Since [...] read more
While you can easily remove the “Resume later” button from your Limesurvey template by de-activating the “Participant may save and resume later?” feature at “General Settings” -> “Notification & data management” of your survey, removing the “Exit and clear survey” button isn’t possible this way. So what to do? There are two solutions, both require [...] read more
Sometimes you want to find out how many days or years have passed between today’s date and a date inputted by the user at a Limesurvey survey. The process is a little complex but it can be done using the Limesurvey Expression Manager. ContentsCalculating the number of daysCalculating the number of yearsUsing calculated result within [...] read more
We could probably write 10-12 pages about how to create a fully responsive Limesurvey template but we want to spare you from reading about all the technical details. Instead, we just want to sum up our findings and present you the results. Several people have spent dozens of hours to create the first fully responsive [...] read more
For our projects we use the professional Limesurvey templates available at the Limesurvey Template Shop. They all provide a logo placeholder so you can easily add your own logo to such a template. This post will show you how to do that. Update: Please note that since Limesurvey v2.50 and later uploaded files are stored within [...] read more
