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<div class="simplebox">[[File:help.png]] '''Hint:''' Setting file permissions is especially important in order to secure configuration files holding critical data such as passwords.</div>
{{Box|For a more in-depth description of the options presented above, read the [[Settings|wiki dedicated to the '''Settings''' tab]].}}


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


{{Box|For a more in-depth description of the options presented above, read the [[Settings|wiki dedicated to the '''Settings''' tab]].}}
=Users tab=
=Users tab=


The '''Users tab''' contains options related to the users and participants' management. If wish to offer different [[Manage users#Grant survey permissions to a user|survey]] or/and [[Manage users#Set global permissions for a user|global permissions]] to your employees/helpers, you have to create users to whom you allocate their specific permissions. For an easy management, the users can be grouped into [[Manage user groups|user groups]]. The [[Central participants database|central participant database (CPDB)]] incorporates contains survey participants who are allocated to more than one survey or/and are shared with other LimeSurvey survey administrators.
The '''Users tab''' contains options related to the users and participants' management. If wish to offer different [[Manage users#Grant survey permissions to a user|survey]] or/and [[Manage users#Set global permissions for a user|global permissions]] to your employees/helpers, you have to create users to whom you allocate permissions. For an easy management, the users can be grouped into [[Manage user groups|user groups]]. The [[Central participants database|central participant database (CPDB)]] contains survey participants who are allocated to more than one survey or/and are shared with other LimeSurvey survey administrators.
Three options are located under the '''Users tab''':
Three options are located under the '''Users tab''':
<center>[[File:Users tab configuration.png]]</center>
<center>[[File:Users tab configuration.png]]</center>

Revision as of 15:55, 11 September 2017

General

To administrate your LimeSurvey installation, click on the Configuration button located on the top toolbar of LimeSurvey's main page:

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

Settings tab

This tab contains five options with which you can customize your LimeSurvey installation:

For a more in-depth description of the options presented above, read the wiki dedicated to the Settings tab.


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 the users and participants' management. If wish to offer different survey or/and global permissions to your employees/helpers, you have to create users to whom you allocate permissions. For an easy management, the users can be grouped into user groups. The central participant database (CPDB) contains survey participants who are allocated to more than one survey or/and are shared with other LimeSurvey survey administrators. Three options are located under the Users tab:

For more details on the three options, check our wiki on users.

Advanced tab

You may find under this tab options that are nor users- or settings-related. They contain functionalities that could help you improve your survey or your LimeSurvey installation. These functionalities are: