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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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Pre-launch messages

Pre-launch error messages and warning messages are displayed at the top of the Survey launchpad. Error messages An error message can be identified by a round icon and pink background….

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…

What is a "Token"?

…needing to enter a username/password combination. A personalised URL looks like this: https://accountname.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/surveyname?token=xxxxxxxx If you leave the token field blank when providing respondent data, online surveys will generate random, non-guessable…

Copying charts from the Analysis Summary

…bar and drop it there. Visit your survey’s Analyse Summary page. Go to the Display button at the top of your Analyse page and choose All text responses. Click the

Using piping in your survey

…location. A piping anchor uses the source question label typed in all caps and surrounded by square brackets. E.g. source label = name; anchor = [NAME]. Please note the following…