Activating a survey/zh-cn

概要

一旦你对调查的结构感到满意的话，你可以通过点击 激活调查 按钮来激活它：

激活之前，会有一个询问一些与常规的调查设置相关的窗口出现：

• 匿名反馈： 通过此选项，您可以确定对调查的答复是与调查令牌表中的信息匹配还是“匿名”。如果你决定启用此选项，调查就会设置为匿名回复，不会对答案和参与者产生关联；
• 保存IP地址： 启用之后，调查受访者的IP地址会和他/她的答案一起保存；*保存计时： 如果启用，每一位调查参与者在每一页调查上花费的时间会被记录下来；
• 日期戳： 打开此选项你将能看到答案被提交的日期；
• 保存来源网址： 开启后来源地址会和答案保存在一起。

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

Before you activate a survey, note that:

• when the survey is initialized, you can change the text for questions, answers, the survey etc, but not the type of question or the type of answer.
• you cannot add new questions or delete questions. Nor can you add answers to any of the array or multiple choice questions - however you can add answers to the basic list type questions.
• if you deactivate (not expire) the survey, it will move the responses to a backup table and lose participation information but you will again be able to add new questions and groups and modify survey parameters.

Problems when activating the survey

Activation button/function is disabled

If the Activate this survey button is disabled, then your survey is not yet capable of being activated (for example if you have no questions created yet).

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.