Survey design
Workarounds from the manual: what to use instead
About the workarounds in the manual The LimeSurvey manual has four pages of workarounds: solutions that users shared for LimeSurvey 1.x to 3.x, most of them JavaScript for the survey templates of that time. Today most of them are built in as a ...
Hide the Exit and clear survey button
About the button Surveys show a button that lets participants exit and clear the survey. Clicking it discards the answers they gave so far. In long surveys, participants who want to save and continue later sometimes click it by mistake. You can ...
Hide the language switcher
About the language switcher A survey in several languages shows a language switcher: a list on the welcome screen and a language menu in the top menu of the survey pages. If participants should stay in the language of their link, you can hide both ...
Make first and last name required in public registration
About public registration A survey with a participant list can let people register themselves: they fill in a registration form and get their own access code. On that form, only the email address is required. To make first name and last name required ...
My survey doesn't appear on the public survey list
About the public survey list When someone opens the address of your survey site without a survey link, they see its public survey list. For privacy, surveys are not listed there by default, so the page shows No available surveys. Participants still ...