Activating a survey/sl

Ko ste enkrat zadovoljni s strukturo ankete, jo lahko aktivirate s klikom na ikono "Aktiviraj anketo". Aktiviranje ankete omogoča več stvari:

• Ustvari ločeno podatkovno bazo, ki vsebuje odzive anketirancev, hkrati pa v tabeli ustvari polje za vsak odgovor posebej.
• Anketirancem omogoči vnos podatkov v to tabelo in dostop do drugih funkcij ankete, kamor spadata tudi pregled rezultatov ankete in žetoni.
• Dodeli vam dostop do funkcije "žetoni". Ko je enkrat aktivacija ankete izvedena, vam postane na voljo tudi gumb "žetoni" (več o tem v poglavju Žetoni ).
• Če vaša anketa "ni anonimna", se tabela žetonov samodejno ustvari.

Before activation, a window will be displayed, asking you about some general survey-related settings:

• Anonymyzed responses: This option allows you to determine whether responses to your survey are matched up with information from your survey's token table, or kept "anonymous". If you decide to enable it, your survey is set to anonymize responses - there will be no way to connect answers and participants;
• Save IP address: If enabled, the IP address of the survey respondent will be stored together with his/her answers;
• Save timings: If enabled, the time spent on each page of the survey by each survey participant is recorded;
• Date stamp: Turn it on if you would like to see the date the answers were submitted;
• Save referrer URL: If enabled, the referrer URL will be stored together with the answers.

Once you are done enabling the desired functionalities, click on the Save & activate survey button. The following message will be displayed:

Select the option that suits your needs. For more information on survey participants, access the following link.

Now, copy the link to your survey and start sharing it:

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By activating a survey, LimeSurvey:

• creates a separate database table where all survey responses are stored, a new entry being added for each new collected survey response
• allows survey administrators to manually enter data into that response table or edit the existent data

Pred aktiviranjem ankete morate biti pozorni na sledeče:

• Po aktivirani anketi lahko še vedno spreminjate besedilo vprašanj, odgovorov itd., ne morete pa spreminjati tipa vprašanja oziroma tipa odgovora
• Ne morete dodajati novih vprašanj ali izbrisati že obstoječa. Pri poljih ali vprašanjih z več izbirami je tudi onemogočeno dodajanje odgovorov - lahko pa dodajate odgovore pri osnovnih tipih vprašanj
• Če deaktivirate anketo (ko še ni potekla), bo sistem premaknil odzive v arhiv, s tem pa se izgubijo informacije o sodelujočih. Vendar pa boste ponovno lahko dodajali nova vprašanja, skupine in spreminjali parametre.

Problems when activating the survey

Če se ikona "Aktiviraj anketo" ne prikaže, potem vaše ankete še ni možno aktivirati (na primer, če še niste ustvarili vprašanj). Ko enkrat kliknete na to ikono, LimSurvey zažene hitro preverjanje doslednosti. S tem se prepriča, da bo vaša anketa pravilno delovala.

Too many questions

When you activate your survey you may have too many questions in your survey so that the response table cannot be created. The error would say something like 'Too many columns' in older versions of LimeSurvey. In the latest version the error message would say "The survey answer table cannot be created. This is probably caused by too many questions or sub-questions in the survey. If possible try to remove questions from the survey."

In this case you could try one or more of the following things:

• Try to remove some questions in your survey.
• Did you always use the correct question types? A common error would be to use a Multiple-choice question type with a limit of one choice instead of using a List(Radio) question type. The former one would use a lot more data fields, while the latter one uses only one.
• The length of the column names seem to matter. If you copy the survey using a small survey ID (you can set that when copying the survey) you might be able to activate the survey
• If nothing of the above helps or it is impossible to shorten the survey you could split the survey to two surveys. In that case you would auto-load the second survey at the end of the first one. You could skip the welcome screen of the second survey and the participant would barely notice the switch.

  If the survey is active and you open several tabs by clicking on "Execute survey", you may not be able to fill out the survey (an error will pop up suggesting you to use the index to navigate the survey) in tabs previously opened to the last one. When that happens, please close all the tabs and make sure to open only one tab at a time to test the live version of your survey.