Last OpenSurvey releases:

2024-12-09 Major Update

Downloading panelist data across all projects
Avoid running 2 questionairres in parallel
Multilanguage module update package
JSON file exports and imports
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2024-09-10 Major Update

Multilingual Module:
- 1 survey for all languages
- No more data merging
- Consistent data labels

2024-08-25 Major Update

New functions and updates:
- New scale question type – scale 2024 – can better deal with long text and text after and text before
- Back button in grid sub-types fix
- Regular expression floatN update
- Generating FHIR and deleting data – incomplete interviews
- Recontact (recall) functionality extension
- Back button revision
- Results update
- Password security update
- PAM Attributes management
  - coding attributes and attributes administration
  - remove attribute from account
  - attributes stored in FHIR file of rest API
- Sending data update
  - storing files into log
  - new procedure of generating .csv files,
  - new sending data settings
  - sending data by SFTP

Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2023-01-30 Major Update

2023-04-04 Major Update

New functions:
- Hash unique parameter in redirects
- Notification if quota is filled or not filled
- Date question valid date from and valid date to extended functionality
- .pdf files allowed to add image/media dialog
- Change project setting – created by

Screen Times update and review
Unlimited going back with Back button
SPSS labels update
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2023-01-30 Major Update

New functions:
- Filter online reports in result page
- New option in autocomplete question sub-type
- Search channel and project tool
- Recoded data file type (replacing values with value labels)
- Create unique links in my sample type channel
- Change respondent status
- Copy questionnaire from definition file

Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2022-12-13 Major Update

New functions:
- User management update – user roles, surveys visibility and accessibility, share survey, sharing users between accounts
- Codebook update – Complete description of system variables at the beginning of the file
- Republish update
- Delete Survey
- CSS in survey settings
- Change respondent status
- Copy questionnaire from definition file

Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2022-10-12 Major Update

New functions:
- Print view of questionnaire
- Code book – an excel file, which shows labels, conditions, names of questionnaire items etc.
- Authentication screen for resp
- New option in Grid type question: Hide grid cell
- New answer required option – semi-mandatory question (no with basic alert)
- Publish – New version of questionnaire (only new respondents see changes) – alternative to rePublish
- Channel connection to PAM as default for PAM accounts and security improvement

Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2022-09-04 Major Update

New functions:
- New subtype of text question – Time
- New subtype of text question – Date
- Page detail – new buttons (save and close a back to Questions)
- New action – Quota-full
- Questions – Buk insert update

Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2022-07-13 Major Update

New functions:
- New subtype of grid question – Accordion
- New subtype of numeric question – Slider and Vertical slider
- Respondent parameter
- Redirect page – use of a parameter other than resp
- PII question with sensitive personal data
- Password recovery
- Answer Categories in other question types

Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2022-06-07 Major Update

New functions:
- Answer Required – no with alert (Questions)
- Responsive mobile design settings (Questions)
- Auto Action (Channel tab)
Library of User defined questions and JavaSripts
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2022-05-26 Major Update

New functions:
- Answer Categories in multiple categorical question
Autocomplete update
New option: Delete comments
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2022-04-05 Major Update

New functions:
- Excel exports added to Result tab and Questions – Titles and answers
- Excel import added (set of links) – directly to redirect page or channel
- Improvement of import in Sample access – My Sample (check of resp_id uniqueness, correct e-mail addres format etc.)
- Redirect tag added in the My Surveys table
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2022-03-08 Major Update

New functions:
- Excel exports in OpenSurvey
- Response answers in SPSS .sav (beta) version
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2022-02-09 Major Update

New functions:
- Export and import dirextly to/from .xls in translation module
- Mobile device emulation in testing links
- Upgrade of bulk insert in Page actions
- Add custom head script to project
- More options in results download (statuses, channels etc.)
- Improved calculation of total questionnaire completion time (Spent_time)
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2022-12-10 Major Update

New functions:
- Automated data sending to third party (client)
- Automated Bot detection – invisible google reCAPTCHA v3

2021-10-08 Major Update

Custom closed channel text in Channel detail – possibility to change default message for closed channels
New functions ANSWERCOUNT and COUNT:
- COUNT: shows number of responses in specified question
- ANSWERCOUNT: shows number of responses chosen by respondent in specified question
State_id in circle Ids – 3rd column added into circle IDs file
Added open and open required option to multiple numerical question
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2021-06-30 Major Update

Questionnaire’s logic and routing overview – NEW function added as a button Show Logic in Questions submenu
Windows encoding for whole European diacrtitics marks added – windows-1252 – western European , 1254 – Turkish, 1255 – Hebrew, 1256 – Arabic , 1257 – Baltic
Copy to clipboard button in result page – NEW function added
Count open as answer – New option in multiple categorical question allows user set limit of answers without counting open answer.
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2021-06-10 Major Update

Automatic closing of channel after reaching required number of completes – New channel option added
Added encoding for Cyrillic alphabet – windows-1251 into export settings
System variables are added to condition wizard; e.g. [channelid], [resp] and many more
New channel are now created directly in testing mode. New info is added into channel overview
Option for copying projects together with channels and quota settings added
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2021-05-21 Major Update

New options added to data export settings – the option to select the channel
Translation module rebuild – fully functional with brand new design and version log
WYSIWYG editor in emailing added
Emailing updated
Instant user support fully implemented – Freshchat fully implemented
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2021-04-07 Major Update

Check project – extension of revision options (duplicity of labels, show conditions etc.)
Collapse and expand groups – new feature added
Randomization of groups – new feature added
Open answer type label added to grid
Recontacting – new feature for users with a PAM connected profile
Question dragging in Preview and Design – newly locked by default
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2021-02-24 Major Update

CATI instruction added and the option to display the question label added as a parameter to the link
Login through Circle implemented
Freshwork – chat added
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2020-11-24 Major Update

More exlusive checkboxes to different types of questions added
New parameter OS badquality 9 implemented
Channels – external access + sample access – the option to show full link including an unique parameter added
Channel details – status chart added
Group settings – copy group + merge group options added
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2020-09-15 Questions Update

Transpose grid option implemented

2020-05-15 Major Update

An option to transfer demography from Circle implemented

2020-03-31 Localization Update

Ukrainian localization implemented
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2020-03-12 Result page Update

https URL instead of http
Logo update
Footer parameter added
result page – added text „displayed results are based on live raw data“
result page – option to download open answers added

2020-02-19 Minor Update

Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2019-12-17 Major Update

Channel details – status chart added
Group settings – copy group + merge group options added
Dummy data implemented
Mass deletion od the respondents on the Results page added
An autosubmit option without the „back“ and „next“ buttons requirement added

2019-11-28 Major Update

An option to add image/media implemented.

2019-11-11 Major Update

IS:GROSSSAMPLE newly implemented
Circle integration
Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2018-12-11 GDPR Update

Option to delete the questionnary added

2018-11-14 Minor Update

Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2016-03-16 Minor Update

Collect: Versioning changed: you can add comment to each version, even for re-publish. Project version log added. The system also records re-publishing and stors it as a subversion. Data export includes 2 new columns – start_version (questionnaire version on start) end_version (questionnaire version on end) for the case that the version is changed during the fieldwork.

Database optimization

Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2016-01-03 Minor Update

Questions: Advanced star-rating module (in Single categorical and Grid questions)

Questions: Project Check – fixed for page names in skips

HTTPS optimizations

CATI live watch added

Several minor bug fixes and UX improvements

2015-12-29

Project Check added: checks if all question names exist and are correcty declared in conditions (Page, Question, Channel and Quota settings)

Questions: Create variable in Page Settings – operations with text values

Questions: Added flags for Actions in the question list

Questions: Added flags for Skip Logic in the question list

Questions: Added flags for Randomizing in the question list

Questions: Full text search improvements

Questions: Improved Autosum function in Multiple text question

Questions: JS alerts do not start in the question list any more

Questions: Fixed insert of HTML5 videos in some browsers

Questions: Fixed insert of pictures in some browsers (in Page Design)

Questions: Fixed import/copy of questions to the end of a group

Questions: Improved the position fixing in rotated answers

Questions: Improved handling with negative values in both conditions and answers

Questions: Improved label pipelining [LABEL:Q1] for a label defined by a variable

Questions: new question type

Deeper panel integrations and external sample management added for top admins (beta)

All questionnaires are switched to secure HTTPS protocol now. Please change all relative paths (pictures, CSS, media) to HTTPS.

2015-09-11

Settings: CSS template – file upload added

Questions: new HTML5 video support (Mp4+WebM formats instead of flash FLV)

Questions: drag & drop items (preview and design tab) – you can arrange questions and answers on the page

Questions: image resize – drag the red dot on the picture to resize it

Questions: shelf-test module added (organizing products)

Questions: exclusive checkbox in semi-open end questions fixed

Questions: row order Asc/Desc reflects the localization

Questions: no more hashtags in uploaded file names

Questions: new variables [IS:COMPLETE], [IS:SCREENOUT] and [IS:QUOTAFULL] can be used on the End page

Questions: new system variable [OSBrowser] detects the current browser

Questions: new system variable [CHANNELID] detects the currect sample channel

Questions: new system variable [DATE:format,days from a specific day]

2015–07–02

Questions: you can copy questions/pages/groups from your other project

Questions: new bulk insert for rotation (labels, conditions)

Questions: fixed hiding system menu

Questions: version publishing is also available here (not necessary to go to the Collect page)

Questions: 3D-grid issue fixed

Questions: added export labels for “JS Drag Order” question

Questions: added export labels for single semi-open questions

Questions: publishing/re-publishing can be done in the notification tray

Questions: fixed 3D Grid issue

Respondents: Delete Quota added

Respondents: Re-calculate Quota added

Settings: CSS template management – you can define several custom design templates for each account

Settings: progressbar issue fixed

Results: output missing value can be customized in the export file (-1, 0,99, none etc.)

Results: new export options added to SPSS export (rotation labels, CSV>SPS file extension, label format)

2015–05–10

Settings: template management, account templates

Projects: fulltext search

Questions: you can copy question, page or page group from another project

Questions: design editor (CSS moved to Preview & Design tab – double click any item to change its CSS)

2015–02–03

Projects: copy questionnaire includes also CSS definition

Questions: inverse randomization

Questions: slider condition fixed

Questions: variable can be used in numeric limits

Results: new export options (multiple questions)

Results: system info download fixed (browsers)

Results: several minor fixes

Several UX improvements

2015–01–20

Core system optimization – variable cache

Core system optimization – variable storage

Questions: new grid type – drag and drop

Questions: image resize available

Questions: custom Javascript Code for each question added

Questions: filter logic reflects the existing / nonexisting answers

Questions: basic and advanced view mode merged in Question builder

Questions: grid view optimization and new styling

Questions: question optimization – multiple numerical question – js_drag_order

Questions: DISPLAY IF function fixed

Questions: JS DRAG ORDER – labels improved

Questions: video upload improved

Questions: question sliders – initial position

Respondents: online access panel settings (end links, incentives) for each channel

Respondents: at least one channel is mandatory for a survey

Respondents: external authorization possible for each participant

2014–10–08

Respondents – Emailing functions

Respondents – multiple channels available for each project

Respondents – quota management can be applied for the sample or any channel

Questions: skip to test preview from any question (enable System Info)

Questions: you can create custom HTML question (user defined)

Questions: bulk import of conditions

Question: you can switch the WYSIWYG editor off

User management

Results: performance optimization

Results: SPSS Label file improved

Project management: new section

Speed optimization

Bug fixes and many minor improvements

Several minor updates

Bug fixes and many minor improvements

2014–01–28

UX changes in admin section

new wysiwyg editor

export: customizable data delimiter

help texts updated

editable style for each question/answer

autosum added for text fields

you can split answers in several columns (radio/checkbox, button)

you can split matrix into several pages

device detection (PC, tablets, smartphones…)

temporary variables are saved to datafile now

actions divided into „actions before“ and „action after“

minor bugs fixed

2014–01–02

new question type: custom

timing functions added

data export: variables sorted by file location, not name

minor bugs fixed

minor ux improvements

timestamps added (separate export file)

new question types – sequential matrix, multiple text

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