Survey Design and Layout
How to cite LimeSurvey
Citing the tools and software you used in your research is essential for the reproducibility and credibility of your work. Here’s how you might go about citing LimeSurvey in different citation styles in the text and references sections of your ...
Help! I accidentally closed my survey - what now?
If you closed your survey accidentally, it is important that you do not change anything in your survey. To recover your data: Activate your survey again. Select Responses from the survey toolbar. Click Import and select the "Import answers from a ...
I accidentally deleted a question/question group/survey!
If you deleted it, it cannot be retrieved. Only a backup can help you recover it. Please open a support ticket and ask the team to provide you the backup associated to your account. Please note that this service is not free of charge!
How can I restore data from a deactivated survey?
We recommend that you always use the expiry option instead of deactivating a survey. If you closed your survey accidentally, it is important that you don't change anything in the survey! Then, and only then, will the following steps will work: ...
Hiding "Exit and clear survey"
In case you wish to hide the button "Exit and clear survey", you have to edit the nav_bar.twig file located inside your survey theme. The line that needs to be removed (or commented out) is: {{ include('./subviews/navigation/clearall_links.twig') }} ...
Top menu - How to hide the language switcher
To hide the top language switcher, access the right twig file to edit it. Access again the theme you wish to change, and then go to Screen which is located in the upper-right part of the window and select Navigation from the dropdown list. Now, look ...
Allow public registration using the survey participants table
If you use a survey participants table and you also allow public registration, users will be prompted by the following message: As can be observed above, only the email field is mandatory. To have all three fields marked as mandatory, please edit ...
How do I create a survey which is open to everyone?
To create a survey that can be filled out by anyone, do not create a survey participants table! Share the survey link located on the sharing panel.
How do I get rid of the * (red asterisk) of mandatory questions?
The red asterisk of mandatory questions is set within the template.css file ("asterisk" class). To hide it: Access the desired theme. If it is a default theme, create a copy of it by clicking on the "extend" button. Access the list of themes and ...
I have created a survey, but the message 'No available surveys' is merely shown on my LimeSurvey homepage?
By default, surveys are not listed on the public index page of your LimeSurvey installation for privacy reasons. If you want a survey to be listed on that page, edit the survey 'General settings', choose the tab 'Publication & access control' and ...