Survey Settings
Presentation and theme options
Presentation and theme settings control how your survey looks to participants and how they move through it — colors, background, logo, corner rounding, navigation, and the welcome and end text they read. They affect presentation only: adjusting them ...
Publication, access, and data settings
Three groups of survey settings control when your survey can be taken, how participant sessions behave, and what data is stored with each response. You'll find all of them in the survey editor under Settings (the gear icon in the left icon rail), in ...
Survey settings: an overview
Survey settings apply to one survey only — its languages, page layout, access rules, and notifications. They are separate from your global account settings, which apply to your whole LimeSurvey installation and provide the defaults every new survey ...
Survey Permissions
Overview Survey permissions let administrators give a user access to a specific survey without granting global system permissions. This is useful for specialized roles such as translators: instead of access to all surveys, a user can be allowed to ...
Publication & Access
Publication & access This setting allows the survey administrator to choose the way the survey can be accessed by survey participants (e.g., CAPTCHA codes can be used to increase the security of your survey). Also, here is where you can set a ...
Notifications & Data
Notifications & data To save response-related details to the responses tables, access this panel. You can save the referrer URL, IP address, timings, etc. that can help you produce more in-depth analyses. LimeSurvey allows you to use the tracking ID ...
Participant Settings
Participant settings control how survey participants and their responses are managed — anonymity, resuming, repeated responses, self-registration, and participant emails. Where to find them Open your survey in the editor. Click the gear icon in the ...
Presentation
Presentation Here you can edit the presentation- and navigation-related settings of your survey. These changes impact how the survey is presented to survey participants. You can choose to show the number of the questions at the beginning of the ...
Theme Options
Theme options This panel is for users who would like to enhance their templates by using the inheritance function and bootswatch themes. For more details, please refer to our wiki section on themes. Theme Options offers a set of tools that allow ...
Data Policy Settings
Overview Data Policy Settings allow survey administrators to configure the data policy notice shown to participants — from a required acknowledgment to none at all. Location Open your survey in the Editor, click the Settings (gear) icon in the left ...
Text Elements
Overview Text elements are the survey-level texts shown to respondents. In the LimeSurvey editor they are edited in place on the canvas rather than on one settings screen. Each field below autosaves (a "Saved at" time replaces any Save button). Date ...
General Settings
General Survey Settings The general settings of a survey allow the user to edit basic survey information such as the survey owner, administrator's email, and the template used in the survey. From the Settings tab, under Survey settings, select ...
Survey Overview Page
Overview page The overview page offers an overview of your survey. It is divided into two sections: Overview toolbar: The functions on the toolbar allow you to start/stop the survey, check its logic, save & export it, add survey participants, and ...
Overview - Survey settings
Introduction The survey settings menu permits users to edit different survey-related settings. The following survey settings are available by default: Overview General settings Text elements Data policy settings Theme options Presentation Participant ...