After we had published our “Survey design tips & tricks” recommendations we received a lot of feedback asking if we can continue the list and give some more examples of what one needs to take care of when creating a Limesurvey survey. So we got some coffee and had a team meeting discussing further issues [...] read more
Designing your own survey is pretty easy when using Limesurvey. Unfortunately, creating a really bad survey is also pretty easy. That’s why we have set up a list of survey design tips & tricks. Based on our experience with more then 100 survey projects per year the following recommendations hopefully help you designing better surveys. [...] read more
We all get older and if you haven’t used your Limesurvey installation for a while you may have problems remembering the password you had set a while back. So how to get it back? We will try to help with this. BTW, if you are one of that lazy guys not caring about secure passwords -> [...] read more
[Tested with Limesurvey v2.06LTS] Several Limesurvey question types allow adding an option to enter a free text answer. This option can be enabled when editing a question (“Option ‘other’ -> Yes”). By default Limesurvey always places that option at the very end of the list of answers and there is no feature to change the [...] read more
Sometimes you need participants to agree to certain terms and conditions before starting to take a survey. There is no build-in feature for this at Limesurvey, but we can easily work around this with some lines of JavaScript. Here we go… Turn of XSS filter at Limesurvey To be able to add custom JavaScript at [...] read more
Update (12/2018): Since these days domain names can not only hold special characters like “ü” but also use more than 3 characters as domain name like .tech or .company, we have updated our email regex to only check if “@” and “.” exists within the entered email address. At many surveys you want to ask [...] read more
Sometimes you want to show certain questions of a survey to a specific user group only. With Limesurvey this is no problem. If your survey is set to be non-anonymous and uses tokens, you can use user defined attributes for conditions. Here we describe the necessary steps. 1. Adding additional attributes Set the survey to be [...] read more
Limesurvey offers various randomization features. One common randomization use case is showing different versions of a question at a Limesurvey survey. To do so, you need to randomly show one of the X question versions to the user so the first step would be to generate a random number between 1-X. For this we can use [...] read more
Spam really is a problem these days and without spam filters, email would hardly be usable. But this also causes problems when sending email invitations or reminders at Limesurvey. Often users complain about not having received an invitation/reminder email because the user’s spam filter treated the Limesurvey email as spam. At this blog post we [...] read more
Limesurvey offers a lot of on board features but for certain issues you can add JavaScript to your survey to extend its abilities. Particularly when it comes to on-screen data validation, data filtering, setting default values or any kind of randomization, using JavaScript is the way to go and we have collected several workarounds in [...] read more
