Home page settings

General

The home page settings page allows every user to tweak its settings according to their needs. The button can be accessed from Configuration->Home page settings(located under the Settings tab):

Besides the home page settings, new boxes (for different user groups) can be created in order to facilitate the management of your LimeSurvey installation.

Home page settings

The following home page settings are available:

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• Display logo: If it is turned 'off' the logo situated above the boxes will disappear (the default value is 'On');
• Show last visited survey and question: It is turned 'on' by default. It shows the last visited question and survey. the bar is located between the logo and the boxes;
• Show survey list: The default value is 'Off'. If you turn it on, a survey list will appear below the boxes from the homepage;
• Show search box on survey list: If it is ticked 'Off', then the search box will not be shown anymore in the survey list. Please not that this option does not have any effect on your home page if the Show survey list option is not turned on;
• Boxes by row: The number of boxes you would like to have on each row. The default number is '3';
• Box offset ^{(Obsolete since 3.0)}: Box offset is a function the users center the boxes. For example, if you use 15 boxes, you can use the box offset function in order to better organize them into your home page. This function does not exist anymore in LimeSurvey 3.0 (and the later versions) because the boxes are automatically centered.

Click on Save boxes settings once you are done. If everything is turned on, the homepage should look like this:

Boxes

The LimeSurvey installation comes by default with six boxes created: Create survey, List survey, Global settings, ComfortUpdate, Label sets, and Template editor.

Create/Edit a box

• Position: It shows the position of the box on the "Boxes" table;
• Destination URL:
• Title: The name of the box;
• Icon: It allows the user to select one of the LimeSurvey predefined icons;
• Description: A small description of what the box does will be shown;
• Display this box to: It allows you to choose who can see the respective box:
  • Only admin : Only the super administrator of the LimeSurvey installation can see those respective boxes;
  • Everybody : Everyone who logs into the LimeSurvey installation can see those respective boxes;
  • Nobody : Nobody can see those respective boxes. It can be used when you would like , for example, to those boxes to which a user group does not have access to.
  • Other user groups : Certain user groups are allowed to see those respective boxes. To find out more about user groups, read our wiki on how to manage them.

Create a box

In order to add a new box into the Boxes table, click on Create a new box, located in the upper-part of the screen: .

Reset to the default settings

If you did too many changed and you would like to restore the Boxes to its default values, click on the Reset to default boxes button, located in the upper-right side of the window.