管理 LimeSurvey

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:

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

Hint: Setting file permissions is especially important in order to secure configuration files holding critical data such as passwords.

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

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

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 their specific permissions. For an easy management, the users can be grouped into user groups. The 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. Three options are located under the Users tab:

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

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:

• Template editor
• Manage label sets
• Check data integrity
• Backup entire database
• ComfortUpdate

For further details, read the wiki on the LimeSurvey's installation advanced settings.