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. Calculating the number of days Let’s assume there is a question of [...] 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
At Limesurvey 1.92 we implemented default values for several question types that were missing this feature. In combination with the new and powerful Expression Manager, this offers new possibilities. Using the Expression Manager at Limesurvey 1.92 you can now easily populate a text field with data from previous answers. Let’s create a simple example for [...] read more
When first working with Limesurvey’s condition designer, you might miss a feature to show/hide whole question groups. Doing this is quite obvious though: Set a condition on the first question of the group like “Show question X if question Y was answered ‘>=3’ “. Click the “copy conditions” icon at the condition editor. Select the [...] read more