Show Progress Bar
Displays progress bar at the bottom of each survey page. The progress indicates the percentage of questions a panelists have so far answered from all survey questions. 100% means that panelist has answered all questions. Only questions or matrix columns whose "Include in Progress" is set to "Yes" will be included in the progress calculation. You may want to exclude optional questions, or questions on pages where a page branching may skip. Read more on "Include In Progress" question settings.

 

 

 

Show Back Button
Displays the << (back) button on survey pages. On the first page, there is no << button displayed. This is a survey-level settings, so you cannot control on which pages the back button will appear or be hidden. The Back button will not save the changes made by panelist on the page. When a panelist clicks on the Back button, an informative popup window will appear informing panelist that they will need to click on the SAVE button first if they want to save any changes made on the page. This message will appear on pages that collect information from panelists. It will appear even if the panelist hasn't made any changes.

 

 

Show Save Button
Displays the SAVE link button at the bottom of all survey pages. Responses and changes to existing responses are saved for all questions on a page when user navigates away from the page using the >> (next) button or the Save linkbutton. The difference between the two is that while both buttons save the responses for all questions on the page, the >> button takes the user to the next page while the Save button keeps the user on the same page. Save button is useful in Delphi surveys as Delphi requires that a panelist provides a response to a question before s/he can see the group analytics/consensus for that given question. If panelist clicks on Save instead of Next, then s/he will be able to see analytics immediately and won't have to navigate back later.

 

Show Chat Button
Displays the Chat link button. Panelist can communicate with the survey administrators via a private chat window doing a two-way asynchronous communication. This is a one-on-one communication channel and no other panelists are involved.

 

When a message is sent by a panelist, an email will be sent out to all survey administrators with the panelist's message and any of them can reply to it. New unread messages will be displayed with red background on the View Responses page. Once the message has been viewed by the administrator, it will be grayed out for the administrator who has read the message (other admins will not be affected until they read it also).

 

 

Either the administrator or the panelist can initiate a private message. Messages are tied to the survey and not to individual survey round, so they message thread will be kept from survey round to survey round. Messages cannot be deleted.

 

Survey administrators can apply email variables to private messages, so variables such as "{~user_firstname~}" or {~user_firstname~}, etc. will work if added to the messages. These Email Variables are replaced when the message is sent. When the "{~user_password~}" is used, it will not be displayed to the survey administrator, only to panelist.

 

Admins may comprise a short message such as below, and copy/paste it to multiple panelists without having to change the content. The message will be customized to each recipient regardless, when the message is sent: 

 

 

An private chat alert notification email will look something like this when panelist sends a private message:

 

Email header (sent to admin):

 

 

Email content (sent to admin):

 

 

Show ToDo Button
Displayed the To Do link button at the bottom of the page. This takes panelists to the Missed Questions page where all questions that the user has not answered yet will be displayed. For Matrix questions, Surveylet only displays the Matrix question title and not each individual cells in the matrix. It may be advisable to disable this settings for survey where skip logic is enabled as users may see questions they skipped because of their choice selection and Surveylet lists all missed questions on this page regardless the skip logic.

 

Show Exit Button
Displays the Exit link button at the bottom of each survey page. Exit will log panelist off the survey session.

 

Text for the Back (<<) button displayed to panelists at the bottom of survey pages. If you want to add your own custom label in any language, then see explanation under the "Label for Save Button" section below.

 

Text for the Save button displayed to panelists at the bottom of survey pages. If nothing is specified, "Save" will be displayed. Surveylet automatically translates the "Back" label into other languages, however, if you want to add your own custom label in any language, then you will need to add it between HTML tags using the 2-digit international country code. In the screen shot example below, the Save Page is in English, and the Speichern is in German:

 

 

Label for Chat Button
Text for the Chat link button displayed to panelists at the bottom of survey pages. If nothing is specified, "Chat" will be displayed. If you want to add your own custom label in any language then see explanation under the "Label for Save Button" section above.

 

Label for ToDo Button
Text for the To Do link button displayed to panelists at the bottom of survey pages. If nothing is specified, "To do" will be displayed. If you want to add your own custom label in any language then see explanation under the "Label for Save Button" section above.

 

Label for Exit Button
Text for the Exit link button displayed to panelists at the bottom of survey pages. If nothing is specified, "Exit" will be displayed.  Exit will not save answers on the page, panelists must first click on Save button (or >> button) if they want to save their answers before they quit. When they quit the survey, they can still go back. It does not flag their survey progress at 100%. It simply logs them off their current survey session. If you want to add your own custom label in any language then see explanation under the "Label for Save Button" section above.

 

Show Sticky Footer
Surveylet can display the footer with the 4 link buttons (Save, Chat, To do, Exit) right under the << and >> navigation buttons, or place them on a sticky footer that will always be visible when scrolling. You have the option to move only the Save button to the sticky footer and leave all others under the navigation buttons.

 

Display Sticky Footer: "No": the footer may not be visible when scrolling on longer pages.

 

 

Display Sticky Footer: "Yes": the footer will always be visible when scrolling.

 

 

Display Sticky Footer: "Yes - Only Save Button":  the footer with the green Save button will always be visible when scrolling. The rest of the menus (Chat, To Do, Exit) will not be visible when scrolling.

 

 

Enable Sentiment Analytics
Enables sentiment analytics for open-ended questions and matrix columns. Only Essay/Textarea questions and My Comments boxes will be analyzed. Short textbox question types are not included in the analysis. This is an optional add-on service which requires Sentiment Analytics service added to your Surveylet account.

 

In-Survey Analytics (Admin)
Survey administrators can log on to the survey as a panelist and carry out read-only in-survey analytics. To test the survey, administrators will need to close the survey and click on Test Survey page and select a panelist to test the survey as. The panelist's answers will be read-only, and under each page the filter footer will appear that will allow administrators to filter the incoming responses. Surveylet allows up to 4 filters which are concatenated using the AND boolean operator.

 

 

The Distribution graph ("Graph") will be evaluated using the filters selected underneath the chart.

 

 

You can calculate Percentages or actual Counts using the two link buttons ("Recalculate Pct" and "Recalculate Counts") at the bottom of the page. If the panelist selected "I don't know" the Graph chart will not be shown. The Consensus or Statistics tabs will not be filtered; the filter is only applied to the Graph chart.

 

Streaming Analytics (Panelists)
Enables streaming analytics for panelists. If set to Yes, panelists will see question analytics refreshed as new responses are received without them having to manually refresh their browser. Only the question analytics window is refreshed, hence their survey experience is not affected. It is useful only in Real-time Delphi survey. Multi-round Delphi surveys will ignore this settings. It is mostly usable during a short team-meeting, or live conferences where instant decision-making is critical. Enabling it for a longer running survey (those that take more than just a few hours) will not provide any benefits.

 

Streaming Analytics (Admin)
Enables streaming analytics for administrators. Default is No. When set to Yes, administrators can monitor incoming responses in all charts on the Analyze Survey page in real-time without having to refresh their browsers.

 

Display Pre-Response Analytics
When it is enabled (set to Yes), panelist will see the consensus analytics tabs that administrator enabled under the question before s/he answers the question. If it's set to No (which is the default value), panelist must first submit a response to a question before s/he can see group analytics for that question. The Delphi methodology requires that panelist first answer the question before s/he can see group consensus and feedback analysis in order to record his/her unbiased view and monitor deviation from original position. Carefully consider this requirement for your Delphi survey before your enable this feature, as you may violate the Delphi requirements and invalidate your results in an official publication. This feature takes effect for both Standard and Matrix question types.

 

Filter Comments by Language
Only for multi-lingual surveys. When enabled, panelists will only see comments from other panelists that match their selected language. Default is disabled. For instance, if the survey design languages are English and German, and panelist's selected language is German, s/he will only see comments provided by other German-speaking panelists; all English comments will be hidden. Administrators are not affected by this settings, they will always see all comments in all languages.

 

Identity Masking Question
Sets the question whose answer will be displayed in place of the Panelist's name. For instance, if you select the "What is your level of expertise?" radio button question, the answer the panelist selected for this question will be used to mark the comments made by panelists in the All Comments section.

 

For instance, the Identity Masking Question is set to "Indicate the level of your expertise" in Survey Settings > Display Settings:

 

 

Panelist selects an answer to this question:

 

 

Which answer will be appended to their comments (displayed in brackets with bold font):

 

 

 

Style Sheet
You can apply style to your question labels, descriptions, footers using Style Sheets. With style sheet, the same style will be applied to all questions and can be changed at once. This eliminates the need that you style each question separately. To use Style Sheet, basic HTML editing skills and knowledge is required. Each survey element (headers, questions, question details, choice labels, matrix column and row titles, etc.) has its corresponding style sheet entry. You may also define your own CSS class here and assign it to different questions.

 

 

 

 

 

To add JavaScript to your survey, you will need to add it to the Style Sheet section by closing the Style Sheet section first ("</style>"), then inserting the actual JavaScript content between <script type="text/javascript">...</script> tags, and then reopening the Style Sheet section again (with "<style>") as shown in the example below: