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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

Help & support

Deleting surveys

…Surveys that you delete from your dashboard go to your Deleted surveys, where they can be recovered for up to 30 days. After 30 days the surveys are automatically purged…

Pre-population – Constraints and considerations

…answer for the question. If you do not, any affected respondents will be unable to complete the survey. Pre-populated questions are hidden only from the respondent when they are completing…

Pre-launch messages

…routing section) Not enough pages (minimum of 2 required). Adding pages, text and sections to your survey Your final page must not contain any questions. Adding pages, text and sections…

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…