LimeSurvey Manual
From LimeSurvey Manual
General
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 at 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 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.
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Manual - Table of contents
- Installation
- Administering LimeSurvey
- Getting Started
- Creating surveys - Introduction
- Survey settings
- Creating a question group
- Adding a question
- Question types
- Question type - Array
- Question type - Array by column
- Question type - Array dual scale
- Question type - Array (5 point choice)
- Question type - Array (10 point choice)
- Question type - Array (Increase-Same-Decrease)
- Question type - Array (Numbers)
- Question type - Array (Texts)
- Question type - Array (Yes-No-Uncertain)
- Question type - Date
- Question type - Equation
- Question type - File upload
- Question type - Gender
- Question type - Language switch
- Question type - Numerical input
- Question type - Multiple numerical input
- Question type - Ranking
- Question type - Text display
- Question type - Yes-No
- Question type - Multiple choice
- Question type - Multiple choice with comments
- Question type - 5 point choice
- Question type - List (Dropdown)
- Question type - List (Radio)
- Question type - List with comment
- Question type - Short free text
- Question type - Long free text
- Question type - Huge free text
- Question type - Multiple short text
- Change question order
- Question preview
- Adding answers or subquestions
- Question types
- Setting conditions
- Assessments
- Quotas
- Email templates
- Managing Surveys
- Testing a survey
- Validate Survey Logic
- Activating a survey
- Running a survey safely
- Browsing survey results
- Closing a survey
- Changing an active survey
- Survey participants (was: Tokens)
- Iterate Survey
- Data entry
- Statistics
- Exporting results
- Exporting a survey structure
- QueXML PDF Export
- Quick-translation
- Not Categorized and Advanced Features
- General FAQ
- Troubleshooting
- LimeSurvey Glossary
- How to design a good survey (guide)
- Workarounds
- License
- Version change log
- Plugins
LimeSurvey development
- Development overview - General pages about LimeSurvey development
- LimeSurvey 1.x development documentation
- LimeSurvey 2.x development documentation
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