I have read a few message showing that there is a way to to anonymous polling.
My situation is a little different, but maybe same enough to use anonymous,
We are doing a survey where we wil be walkign around neighborhoods and interviewing people.
The same person will be entering in the answers all the time.
How can I make a poll so that the sam eperson can fill out the survey multiple times? Will Lime Survey automatically assign a ID for each survey doen to allow for do follow up based on when it was done?
As well, is there a way to incorporate GPS coordinates in the responses(automagically) from the GPS on th ephone/tablet used to fill out the survey?
Limesurvey is based to be used online, thus you usually require internet connection all the time. This can be a problem when out on the streets, depending on the reliability of your 3G/4G internet connection.
However, there is offlinesurveys.com, which allows you to use Limesurvye offline and then later once you are online to upload the responses to the central Limesurvey server. Have a look at their site. With offline surveys you can also save GPS coordinates, which is not possible with a normal LS online survey.
Regarding the interviewer situation, there are a few options:
You could use a open survey, which allows access to anyone. Within the survey you can put a field where the interviewer can put the interviewer id.
Or you create a token based survey and give each interviewer a range of token links. You just need to remember which tokens you gave to which interviewer.
But I would probably give each interviewer ONE token with the "uses left" attribute set to a reasonable value above the expected number of interviews (the number can alwasy be increased if necessary). I think that tokens can not be used with offlinesurveys.com, but I guess the app would probably assign a specific ID to each app installation. You would need to check that on your own.
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With offline surveys you can also save GPS coordinates, which is not possible with a normal LS online survey.
Not true. You can use the HTML5 Geolocation API to load a short-text question with location coordinates.
Add the following script to the source of a short-text question.
Code:
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(document).ready(function() {
function recordPosition(position) {
// Record current position
$('#question{QID} input[type="text"]').val(position.coords.latitude+', '+position.coords.longitude);
}
// Position request
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(recordPosition);
});
</script>
