Overview: Survey settings
About the survey settings
Everything about a survey that is not a question lives in the panels behind the icons of the left toolbar. The Settings panel, behind the gear icon, holds the survey-wide options in five pages. Changes are saved as you make them.
1. The gear icon
Opens the Settings panel. Click it in the left toolbar. The panel replaces the Structure panel; click the list icon at the top of the toolbar to get back to the Structure panel.
2. General
Languages, owner, sender and page format. The survey languages and the base language, the survey owner, the administrator name and email address, the bounce email address, the survey group, Format (group by group, question by question or all in one) and the theme. See General settings.
3. Privacy policy
What participants accept before they start. A privacy policy with a mandatory checkbox on the welcome screen, links to your legal notice and data policy in the survey footer, and the policy texts per language. See Add a privacy policy.
4. Participant settings
How invited participants and their responses are handled. Anonymized responses, response persistence, several responses per access code, public registration, participant emails and the access code length. See Participant settings. To make the responses anonymous, see Set up an anonymous survey. To encrypt personal data in the database, see Encrypt personal data in your survey.
5. Publication & access
When and how the survey can be taken. Start and end date, the listing on your public index page, a cookie against repeated participation, CAPTCHA and survey embedding. See Schedule your survey and control access.
6. Notifications & data
What is stored with each response and who gets emails. Date stamp, IP address, referrer URL, timings, assessments, save and resume, admin notifications and Google Analytics. See Notifications and data.
7. The settings page
The options of the page you picked. Every option works as soon as you change it. There is no Save button.
Note: Anonymized responses, Date stamp, Save IP address, Save referrer URL and Save timings are locked once the survey is active. Decide on them before you activate.
The other panels in the left toolbar
- Presentation (paint bucket): theme options for logo, fonts, colors and background, and presentation options for the progress bar, question numbering, navigation, date format and public statistics. See Overview: Themes.
- Menu (document icon): the classic pages for participants, email templates, quotas, assessments, panel integration, responses, statistics, resources and plugins. See Overview: Survey menu.
- Permissions (users icon): which users of your survey site may do what in this survey. See Survey permissions.
- Translations (translate icon): the texts of the additional survey languages. See Run a survey in several languages with Quick translation.