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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

Help & support

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….

Known Issues

…v2 Issue resolved: 04/03/2024, 9am   Preview mode is not functioning as expected When previewing your survey, you won’t be able to go past page 2. The preview version of…

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,…

Deleting surveys

You can delete surveys from your Dashboard . Single User account and Project account users can delete one survey at a time. Organisation account users can delete surveys in bulk….

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…

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…

Providing limited access to results data

If you are a member of an Organisation account, online surveys allows you to provide limited access to results data to other users. This may be necessary or desirable where…