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Creating a Survey

Introduction

A survey is a webform, but displayed on a video page or over a video.

Warning

Surveys only show up if you haven't already completed them. If you're having an issue viewing them with your account, sign up with a new email address to check if you've already taken it; alternatively, you can view the results table for the survey and delete your submission(s).

Instructions

Use these instructions to create a survey. Attaching your survey to content will be covered in the relevant guide for the type of content you are creating.

  1. Log in to the admin section
  2. From the top menu, select Content > Add Content > Webform.
  3. In the form that appears, complete all the fields:
    • Title - the name of this survey.
    • Domain access options - select the domains the survey should be available on.
    • To make sure the survey can be used and seen:
      • Go to the Publishing options tab.
      • Tick Published.
    • Click save; this’ll save your survey so you can now add questions.
    • Next you need to add the questions for your survey:
      • Edit the survey (webform) you just created.
      • Select Webform from the menu near the top.
      • Under the Form components section create the survey using any elements you require; if you’re struggling, take a look at another one as an example.
      • Click save.
    • To configure the last few bits, you need to edit the webform again.
    • Now go back to the Webform tab, then to Form settings.
      • Here you configure the Confirmation message.
      • The ability for anonymous users to submit a survey under Submission access (if needed).
      • And allowing a user to only submit the survey once; Per user submission limit will need to be set to Limit each user to 1 submission ever
  4. Save the survey.

Viewing the Results

  1. Log in to the admin section
  2. From the top menu, select Content > Webforms
  3. Here you find the survey you created and can:
    • View Submissions
    • View Analysis
    • View a Table of results
    • Download the results

This guide only sets up a survey and shows you how to grab the results. To attached it to a video, please use the appropriate guide for setting up the video/event/etc.

Virtual Conference Partnership Specifics

Use the configuration options here to tweak your survey to work with features available in a Virtual Conference Partnership event.

Surveys as an Overlay

The confirmation message for a survey needs to be the following for it to function properly.

<p>Thank you for submitting your answers.</p>
    <p><a class="primary__button primary__button-sm left-align__button close-overlay">Close survey</a></p>

The first paragraph tag <p>Thank you for submitting your answers.</p> is optional, but you can also update the text here to suit whatever is required.

Standalone Surveys

To make a survey standalone, you need to follow the steps in the instructions above, but make a small change before saving.

  1. You need to edit the config under URL Path Settings
  2. Uncheck Generate automatic URL alias.
  3. Change the URL to this format: [conference-url-segment] / [survey-url-segment]
    • Conference URL segment - this is the section of the address after uk.vcplive.com/[this bit] for the particular conference this survey needs to belong to.
    • Survey URL segment - this is usually automatically generated in this field; content/[this bit] for this survey.

An example would be: virtual-conference-2020/vcp-demo-survey-standalone