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
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
There is no built-in option to randomly show 1 of X questions in LimeSurvey.This article shows a practical workaround using an Equation question and relevance conditions to randomly select and display exactly 1 of X questions per participant. The approach works reliably across different LimeSurvey versions and survey types. The Basic Idea: Randomly Show 1 [...] 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
LimeSurvey comes with a feature to set default values for several question types. In combination with the powerful Expression Manager this offers new possibilities. Using the Expression Manager you can now easily populate a text field with data from previous answers. Let’s create a simple example for demonstrating how it works: 1. Create a text [...] read more
A favicon is the little icon you see in the browser’s address bar, list of bookmarks or tab. You can display your own icon as follows: Create a favicon – google will find you lots of free favicon generators Name your new favicon “favicon.ico” and place it in your template directory. This can easily be [...] read more
You might run into problems if you deactivate your survey at LimeSurvey instead of setting an expiry date (which we recommend to restrict access to a survey), because once a survey is deactivated, a backup of the results table “lime_survey_12345” (12345 refers to the survey ID) is created and it is renamed to “lime_old_survey_12345_20120101235959”. The [...] 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
