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General

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LimeSurvey allows users to quickly create intuitive, powerful, online question and answer surveys that can work for tens to thousands of participants without much effort. The survey software itself is self-guiding for the respondents who are participating. This manual is thus focused on how to install the application, administer the installation, and support survey creators, administrators and report generation users alike.

There has been a big ramp-up in development within the last few years leading to many new features and changes. Make sure to upgrade to the latest version to make use of the capabilities highlighted here.

Look to the far right for the main chapters of the manual. Otherwise, scroll down further to see the complete table of contents here and go directly to the topic you are interested in.

Still having trouble finding what you want? Don't forget the general search box (upper right corner of the wiki), our General FAQ and Workarounds list. If you are looking for community help, join our discussion forums and check the IRC channel.

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Manual - table of contents

Installation - LimeSurvey CE
Getting started
- First login - your user preferences
Administering LimeSurvey
- Settings tab
  - Home page settings
  - Global settings
  - Plugin manager
  - Menu configuration^{(New in 3.0 )}
  - Menu entries configuration^{(New in 3.0 )}
- Users tab
  - Manage users
  - Manage user groups
  - Central Participant Database (CPDB)
- Advanced tab
  - Theme editor (LimeSurvey 2.x)
    - New Template System in LS3.x
    - Themes
  - Label sets
  - Check data integrity
  - Backup entire database
  - ComfortUpdate

LimeSurvey development

Version guide - A short guide on version numbering
Development overview - General pages about LimeSurvey development
LimeSurvey 2.x development documentation
New Template System in LS3.x - Quick overview of the novelties of the LimeSurvey 3 template system

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Semester of Code participation

Semester of Code 2014

Google Summer of Code / Code-In participation

bait

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 *[[General FAQ]]
-*[[LimeSurvey glossary]]
 *[[How to design a good survey (guide)]]
 *[[Workarounds]]
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 **[[Quick start guide - LimeSurvey 2.50+]]
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 *[[Installation - LimeSurvey CE]]
 **[[Optional settings]]
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 ***[[Backup entire database]]
 ***[[ComfortUpdate]]
 *[[Surveys - introduction]]
+**[[Surveys - introduction#Create_a_new_survey|Create a survey]]
+***[[Surveys - introduction#Import a survey|Import a survey]]
+***[[Surveys - introduction#Copy a survey|Copy a survey]]
 **[[Survey settings]]
 ***[[Overview]]
 ***[[General settings]]
 ***[[Text elements]]
+***[[Data policy settings]]
 ***[[Theme options]]
+***[[Presentation]]
+***[[Participant settings]] (was ''Participant tokens'')
+***[[Notifications_%26_data|Notifications & data]]
+***[[Publication & access]]
+**[[Survey menu]]
+***[[List questions]]
+***[[List question groups]]
+***[[Reorder questions and question groups]]
 ***[[Survey participants]] (was ''Tokens'')
 ****[[Email bounce tracking system]]
-***[[Presentation]]
+***[[Survey quotas|Quotas]]
-***[[Publication & access]]
+***[[Assessments]]
 ***[[Survey permissions]]
-***[[Participant settings]] (was ''Participant tokens'')
-***[[Survey quotas]]
-***[[Assessments]]
-***[[Notifications_%26_data|Notifications & data]]
 ***[[Email templates]]
 ****[[Email placeholders]]
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 **[[Survey structure]]
 **[[Question groups - introduction]]
+***[[Question_groups_-_introduction#Question_group_actions|Question group toolbar options]]
 ***[[Question groups - introduction#Preview question group|Preview question group]]
 ***[[Survey_structure#Reordering_questions_and_question_groups|Change group order]]
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 ****[[Question type - List with comment]]
 ****[[Question type - Short free text]]
+*****[[Question_type_-_Short_free_text#Location|Set up maps and store location]]
 ****[[Question type - Long free text]]
 ****[[Question type - Huge free text]]
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 ****[[Adding answers or subquestions]]
 ****[[Default answers]]
-**[[Expression Manager]]
+**[[Expression Manager - quick start guide]]
-***[[Expression Manager for developers]]
+***[[Expression Manager - presentation]]
 ***[[Expression Manager how-tos]]
+***[[Expression Manager examples]]
 ***[[Expression Manager roadmap]]
-***[[Expression Manager examples]]
+***[[Expression Manager for developers]]
 ***[[Expression Manager sample surveys]]
+****[[Expression Manager]] - old wiki article
 **[[Show logic file]]
-*[[Surveys - management]]
+*[[Survey toolbar options]]
 **[[Testing a survey]]
 **[[Activating a survey]]
 **[[Running a survey safely]]
-**[[Browsing survey results]]
+***[[Changing an active survey]]
 **[[Closing a survey]]
-**[[Changing an active survey]]
 **[[Iterate survey]]
-**[[Data entry]]
+**[[Tools]]
-**[[Statistics]]
+***[[Delete survey]]
-**[[Exporting results]]
+***[[Quick-translation]]
-**[[Exporting a survey structure]]
+***[[Reset conditions]]
+***[[Survey logic file]]
+***[[Regenerate question codes]]
+**[[Display/Export survey]]
+***[[QueXML PDF Export]]
 ***[[Tab Separated Value survey structure]]
-**[[QueXML PDF Export]]
+**[[Survey participants]]
-**[[Quick-translation]]
+**[[Responses (survey results)]]
+***[[Responses & statistics]]
+****[[Responses & statistics#Responses summary|Response summary]]
+****[[Responses]]
+****[[Data entry]]
+****[[Statistics]]
+*****[[Statistics - expert mode]]
+*****[[Statistics - simple mode]]
+****[[Timing statistics]]
+****[[Export responses]]
+****[[Import responses]]
+*****[[Problems & solutions]]
+****[[View saved but not submitted responses]]
+****[[Iterate survey#General|Iterate survey]]
+****[[Batch deletion]]
+***[[Data entry]]
+***[[Partial (saved) responses]]
+*[[Multilingual survey]]
 *[[Not categorized and advanced features]]
 **[[SGQA identifier]]
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 **[[RemoteControl 2 API]]
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 *[[General FAQ]]
 *[[Troubleshooting]]
-*[[LimeSurvey glossary]]
 *[[Workarounds]]
 **[[Workarounds: Question design, layout and templating]]
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 *[[LimeSurvey GSoC 2010]]
 *[[LimeSurvey GSoC 2009]]
+*[[bait]]

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