Survey design tips & tricks

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

How to use JavaScript at a Limesurvey template or survey

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

How to restore data from a deactivated Limesurvey survey

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