Overview - Main Navigation

LimeSurvey admin interface

The six tabs and set of containers on the LimeSurvey Admin Interface contain functionality that allows you to create and list surveys, find help, configure and change your personal and application settings, view  important system notifications and administrate your application.

1. Create survey
   
2. Surveys
   
3. Help
   
4. Configuration
   
5. Notifications
   
6. Admin
   
7. Shortcut boxes

1. Create survey

The Create a new survey page  is displayed when +Create survey is selected.  

Here is where you begin the process of creating a survey.

2. Surveys

Clicking Surveys displays a list of previously created surveys.

3. Help

Here you will find links to the LimeSurvey manual, forums, bug tracker and LimeSurvey homepage.

4. Configuration

the  Configuration  tab contains: (1)  more advanced LimeSurvey features, (2) functionality for configuring your user settings and (3) functionality for configuring basic LimeSurvey application settings.

5. Notifications 

Click the arrow next to the bell icon to view system notifications.

   

6. Admin

Click the Admin tab to make changes to your profile, personal settings, personal menu, personal menu entries, and to logout.

7. Shortcut Boxes

There are also shortcut boxes on the LimeSurvey homepage that correspond to some of the features listed above, as well as links to ComfortUpdate (for LimeSurvey Community Edition users only) and the LimeStore for LimeSurvey extensions (still in beta).  The items shown here, can be determined by the Super-administrator.

Note : Once you have created and activated surveys, an Active surveys tab will also appear in the main navigation bar.

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