1 <section id="ug_project_surveys">
3 <section id="ug_project_surveys_introduction">
4 <title>Introduction</title>
6 Surveys allow you to ask questions to your developer/users and view the results. Surveys are often very helpful if you need some feedback from the users, examples of surveys might be:
9 <listitem><para>User feedback: ask users if they like your project</para></listitem>
10 <listitem><para>Developer feedback: ask developers on new features to be implemented</para></listitem>
13 Of course, surveys are not limited to this list. Basically, you can ask everything you want with surveys.
16 <section id="ug_project_surveys_questions">
17 <title>Administering survey questions</title>
19 Before you can add/modify existing surveys, you need to administer the questions for your surveys. Questions are global for all surveys.
22 FusionForge surveys handle the following question types:
26 <para>Radio Buttons 1-5: This type of question shows 5 radio buttons where the user can select between 1 (low) and 5 (high).</para>
27 <para>This is useful for indicating priorities or quality feedback (e.g.: the question might be: did you like the new xxx feature. The user can select (1 (not very much), 2,3,4, 5(really)</para>
29 <listitem><para>Radio Buttons Yes/No. This type of question allows only two choices: Yes or No.</para></listitem>
30 <listitem><para>Comment Only</para></listitem>
31 <listitem><para>Text field: This type of question allows the user to insert some text in a text field.</para></listitem>
32 <listitem><para>Text area: This type of question allows the user to insert some text in a textarea</para></listitem>
35 When inserting new questions or modifying existing questions, take note of the ID of the question. You'll need them when creating/modifying surveys.
38 <section id="ug_project_surveys_create_new">
39 <title>Creating a new survey</title>
41 You can create a new survey by clicking on the <guimenuitem>Admin</guimenuitem> link and then <guimenuitem>Add a new survey</guimenuitem>.
43 <para>You'll be asked to insert the following data:</para>
46 <term>Survey name</term>
48 <para>The name of the survey</para>
52 <term>Question list</term>
54 <para>Here you should insert the IDs of the questions in the order they should appear. If you wish to see question 4 first, then question 6, then question 1, you should insert here 4,6,1.</para>
56 <para>Don't insert spaces or any character other than comma between the numbers.</para>
61 <term>Is Active?</term>
63 <para>This flag indicates if the survey is active or not.</para>
68 <section id="ug_project_surveys_modification">
69 <title>Modifying a survey</title>
71 You can modify an existing survey, although this is not recommended if answers to the survey have already been given.
74 You should know that the results of a survey are not consistent if you modify the survey and users have already inserted answers.
77 <section id="ug_project_surveys_results">
78 <title>Viewing survey results</title>
80 If you have admin rights, you can view the results of the surveys clicking on the <guimenuitem>View Results</guimenuitem> tab.
83 You can export the survey results in a file in CSV format. This file can then be
84 imported in a spreadsheet like Open Office Calc or Microsoft Excel.