Administering LimeSurvey

General

To administrate your LimeSurvey installation, click the Configuration button located in the top toolbar of the home page:

The menu contains three tabs: settings, users, and advanced.

Settings tab

This tab contains five options which can be used to customize your LimeSurvey installation:

• Home page settings
• Global settings
• Plugin manager
• Menu configuration
• Menu entries configuration

You can also customize your LimeSurvey installation from config.php. For more details, read our wiki on LimeSurvey optional settings.

Users tab

The Users tab contains options related to user and participant management. You have the ability to offer different survey and/or global permissions to your employees/helpers by creating different user groups. Creating user groups makes managing users with different permissions easier. The central participant database (CPDB) contains survey participants who are allocated to more than one survey and/or are shared with other LimeSurvey survey administrators. Three options are located under the Users tab:

• Manage survey administrators
• Create/edit user groups
• Central participant database

Advanced tab

Under this tab you will find options that are neither users- nor settings-related. The Advanced tab contains functionalities that you can use to enhance your survey or your LimeSurvey installation:

• Theme editor (was Template editor)
• Manage label sets
• Check data integrity
• Backup entire database
• ComfortUpdate