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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….

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,…

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…

Pre-launch messages

…store this data. The survey will be anonymous (unless respondents provide responses to other questions that can be used to identify them). Respondent anonymity and online surveys Question x.y 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…