Refactored from CMFQuestions, originally developed by Seb Bacon, sponsored by the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.

Overview

PloneSurvey is a simple product written to collect data from people - feedback on a course, survey, simple data collection etc.

Usage

Add a Survey within a plone site, and add questions and sub-surveys within the survey. Only published questions will be displayed in the survey form for users.

The survey is an ordered folder, so question order can be changed within folder contents.

There are 6 different types of questions that can be added, 'Radio Buttons', 'Selection Box', 'Text Field', 'Text Area', 'Multiple Selection Box' and 'Check Boxes'. These question types correspond to the HTML tag used to display the answer options. For the text input question types there are no answer options and so this field should be ignored. Each Question also has an optional comment field, there are two different types of Comment Field, 'Text Area' or 'Text Field'.

Users are given the option of saving and submitting their data. Saving means that they can come back later and their answers will be remembered. Once a user has submitted their answers will be verified to make sure they gave a response to every question and they cannot change their answers.

The Thank you message text and Saved message text are used when a user completes a survey, and the email options determine wether emails are generated for the survey owner. You can also set the Questionnaire to open or closed (which changes whether users are able to submit) and set whether to allow anonymous users. Anonymous support is done using a cookie __cmfquestions_name which stores the users name. This cookie is not persistent and so when the user exits their browser and returns their username will not be remembered and they will be able to take the questionnaire again.

Use the Review results Tab to check the results of the questionnaire. There are 3 different spreadsheets which show different degrees of detail and are in html or csv format which can be opened in Excel or SPSS as well as other Statistical packages that support this format. There is also a summary of results on this page that will show a bar chart and numbers for multiple choice questions (not the text based ones obviously).

An exit url property specifies where the user will be forwarded to on completing the survey, this can be an internal or external url.