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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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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:…

Pre-population – Constraints and considerations

…Some of these are listed below: Constraints Only certain question types can be used for pre-population Pre-population parameters can only be assigned to: Free text questions. Date/time questions. Multiple choice…

Pre-launch messages

…hyphens. Please review the following: Using piping in your survey Question x.y has an answer piped to page: ‘Page title’ but the question appears after this page in the survey….

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

…dynamic charts into pasteable images: Ensure your browser’s bookmarks/favourites bar is displayed. Drag the bookmarklet (grey box) labelled online surveys charts to images (found below these instructions), to your bookmarks/favourites…