- Posts: 136
- Thank you received: 4
Ask the community, share ideas, and connect with other LimeSurvey users!
Splitting is no option, when survey design is demaining filtering and piping over different surveys. Using parameter via GET is no real option if you have more than a question. URLEndDecoding is not directly supported via ExpressionScript.LouisGac wrote: You should just split your survey in different smaller surveys. Remember that a survey can redirect to an another one.
surveySn wrote: How does the exported data correspond to each other?
Yes, the shorter the better. LimeSurvey seems to demand more questions (e.g workarounds) than other tools too. And many questions in the database isn't automatically converting into a long survey for the respondent.LouisGac wrote: jelo: in scientifically field, a very long survey is considerate as a very bad one.
people trends to answer less seriously when the survey is too long, so it's a bias.
Which is why I said that I thought people were crazy when they ran into the limit. But then I had a not so absurd real life example and was surprised how quickly you can run into trouble.
www.limesurvey.org/de/community/forum/ca...-be-activated#169191My example: a total of 52 departments in a company (over several regions). First question was an array, so 52 columns gone. Next question was a array numbers with 7 answer options 52 subquestions, another 364 columns gone. Then 2 open ended questions with 52 different subquestions each, another 104 columns gone. So far we are at about 520, half of what should be safe. But now there should be about 4-5 loops of this and it should all be done in one survey. We could have simulated this via end url and additional questions, but I had an extremely complicated matrix for the token table, which would have totally exploded the whole thing. I guess the main problema was this matrix, where for each respondent we needed to determine for which of those 52 departments he/she can give responses, anyway. I think it would have been a headache in Limesurvey, if at all possible. So I passed the headache on to an external provider.