Manage users

User management

The user management tool allows you do add additional administration users to LimeSurvey. We will call them in this chapter just 'users' . Do not confuse them with survey participants (respondents).

Create users

To create a new user, open the user management by clicking on Configuration(located on the main LimeSurvey toolbar) -> Manage survey administrators as shown below.

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Then, click on Add user button located on the top upper right of User control table. A new window will pop up, asking you to:

• Enter the desired username into the text field Username.
• Enter the email address into the text field Email. Please note that:
  • If you don't want the user to receive the confirmation email with a link to the LimeSurvey installation, username, and password you can use your own email address to send the confirmation email to you. After that you can change the email address to the address of the user;
  • LimeSurvey sends out a confirmation email to the address entered into the Email field. This email address will be used as the standard contact email address for surveys created by the respective user.
• Enter the users full name into the textfield Full name. Please note that the full name entered here will be used as the standard contact person name for surveys created by this user.
• Click Save to create the new user.

You have now your first user created. To find out more about setting user permissions, please continue reading further.

Manage users

As you can see below, there are four options under the Action column that allow you to:

• edit the general aspects of a user - by clicking the pen symbol;
• delete the user from the survey administrators database - by clicking the trash button;
• set global permissions for a user - click the lock symbol;
• set template permissions for a user - click the pen-and-lock symbol.

Edit user

You can use the pen symbol to edit a user.

You can set a new email address, full name and even change the password. If you have finished what you want to do, click Save.