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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

Help & support

Including a consent statement

…they have not read and agreed to the terms and conditions. Note: Screening only takes effect when a participant completes a survey page and clicks on Next or Submit and…

Will exporting my results affect my survey?

…generates a copy of the information held on the online surveys servers and converts it into the format that you have chosen. The original information is retained within online surveys….

Adding a video or other media content

Video and audio material cannot be hosted on the online surveys website. However, you can embed media that is hosted on an external service, such as YouTube or Vimeo, into…

Changing respondent details

…exported list. Please be aware of the consequences of making the following changes to the respondent list file: Blanking out the passwords will cause online surveys to re-generate passwords for…

How do I change the survey status?

There are four options for the status of an online survey: – Draft surveys have not yet been launched. – Scheduled surveys have been launched but the opening date is…

Known Issues

…are not displayed. This issue also cascades to the data exports from the Analyse page. Refreshing the page will sometimes display the full set of responses. Version affected: Online Surveys…

What is a ‘slug’?

A ‘slug’ is a short label for something, containing only letters, numbers, underscores or hyphens. In online surveys, the term ‘slug’ is used to refer to the survey short name,…

What is validation?

Some of the online surveys question types allow you to set restrictions on the answers, such as what type of answer or how many answers a respondent can provide. These…

Deleting surveys

…to be purged from online surveys. This action cannot be undone and a survey cannot be recovered once it has been permanently deleted. To delete one survey at a time:…

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