Survey structure
From LimeSurvey Manual
Attention : Please note that this tutorial uses explanations and screenshots that are applicable to LimeSurvey 3.xx.
Introduction
When you access a survey, the Survey Settings menu is selected by default. In order to access the Survey Structure, click on the Structure button located near the Settings one, in the left part of the screen.
The menu will display the current structure of your survey. As you can see in the screenshot from above, there are three question groups and four questions.
However, their names are not suggestive. Therefore, we can use the regenerate question codes function of LimeSurvey to get them automatically numerated. Once used, the questions will look like this:
{{Note|For more details about this function, continue reading the following wiki section
Regarding the available options, you can add from the 'Survey Structure menu question groups and questions. To understand the structure of a LimeSurvey survey, continue reading the next wiki section.
The structure of a survey
A survey is formed of questions and question groups. They represent the backbones of a survey. Besides that, a survey may also contains:
- Employed languages
- Question attributes
- Answers
- Subquestions
- Default answers
- Assessments
- Quotas
- Quota members
- Quota language settings
- Survey users and their permissions
- Survey-specific settings
Everything mentioned above is contained by the .lsa and/or .lss file used by LimeSurvey in order to allow its users easily import and export surveys.
Different settings such as themes, survey participants tables, resources or label sets have to be separately exported and then imported into a second survey.
Attention : Please note that every question is attached to a question group! This means that in order to start adding questions to your survey, you need to have at least one question group created before!
Question groups
As mentioned above, before starting to add questions to a survey, you need to have at least one question group created. Then, all your new questions will be added to this question group.
To find out more about question groups, continue reading our introduction on question groups.
Questions
Once a question group is created, you can start adding questions. To shortly check the types of questions that can be added, access the following wiki page.
If you want to learn more about the fields of a Question, read our introduction on questions
Reordering questions and question groups
The system through which you change the order of the questions and question groups was slightly changed in LimeSurvey 3.
In LimeSurvey 2, you have to click on the Survey button to access the home page of the survey and select from the menu the Question organizer tab. The following page will be loaded:
To start reordering questions and/or question groups, simply click on them and drag them to whatever position you want.