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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

Help & support

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…

Managing account responsibilities

This page is for administrators and Primary Contacts of Project or Organisation type accounts. Every online surveys account must have a Primary Contact (PC) and at least one Billing Contact….

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

This page details known issues with Online Surveys, intended to help you apply workarounds until the issues can be resolved. Display and export of response data Issue resolved This issue…

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

…from online surveys and cannot be recovered. You can choose to permanently delete your surveys yourself at any time if you do not wish to wait 30 days for them…

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