4.9. Surveys
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### 4.9. Surveys

#### 4.9.1. Introduction

Surveys allow you to ask questions to your developer/users and view the results. Surveys are often very helpful if you need some feedback from the users, examples of surveys might be:

1. User feedback: ask users if they like your project

2. Developer feedback: ask developers on new features to be implemented

Of course, surveys are not limited to this list. Basically, you can ask everything you want with surveys.

#### 4.9.2. Administering survey questions

Before you can add/modify existing surveys, you need to administer the questions for your surveys. Questions are global for all surveys.

FusionForge surveys handle the following question types:

1. Radio Buttons 1-5: This type of question shows 5 radio buttons where the user can select between 1 (low) and 5 (high).

   This is useful for indicating priorities or quality feedback (e.g.: the question might be: did you like the new xxx feature. The user can select (1 (not very much), 2,3,4, 5(really)

2. Radio Buttons Yes/No. This type of question allows only two choices: Yes or No.

3. Comment Only

4. Text field: This type of question allows the user to insert some text in a text field.

5. Text area: This type of question allows the user to insert some text in a textarea

When inserting new questions or modifying existing questions, take note of the ID of the question. You'll need them when creating/modifying surveys.

#### 4.9.3. Creating a new survey

You can create a new survey by clicking on the Admin link and then Add a new survey.

You'll be asked to insert the following data:

Survey name

  The name of the survey

Question list

  Here you should insert the IDs of the questions in the order they should appear. If you wish to see question 4 first, then question 6, then question 1, you should insert here 4,6,1.

  ### Warning

  Don't insert spaces or any character other than comma between the numbers.

Is Active?

  This flag indicates if the survey is active or not.

#### 4.9.4. Modifying a survey

You can modify an existing survey, although this is not recommended if answers to the survey have already been given.

You should know that the results of a survey are not consistent if you modify the survey and users have already inserted answers.

#### 4.9.5. Viewing survey results

If you have admin rights, you can view the results of the surveys clicking on the View Results tab.

You can export the survey results in a file in CSV format. This file can then be imported in a spreadsheet like Open Office Calc or Microsoft Excel.

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