I think that clearly the future of LimeSurvey will necessitate a Wordpress plugin to allow for easy integration. Right now, though, I'm trying to figure out how to link the two manually.

I want to only allow registered users on the WP site to be able to access my survey, and only take it once. Can anyone give me a basic idea of how I would link the user profiles from the Wordpress wp-users table with the Tokens and/or user database for LimeSurvey? Is this a realistically possible goal?

Try wordpress.org/extend/plugins/surveypress/

Unfortunately, this plugin only syncs users in WP with user accounts in LimeSurvey, so it doesn't mean they can take the tests, it just means they can log in to the admin section...

I haven't used the tool, but it says:

" which gives the capability of importing users from WordPress to LimeSurvey and registered users of WordPress site can see the public active surveys in there dashboard and take them as well!"

Doesn't that mean, that the users of your Wordpress site should be able to take the surveys?

If you read further (and I've tried this out), it says "Make your surveys public (in LimeSurvey!) so that users can see and take them directly through there dashboard in WordPress."

The surveys are required to be public for users to take them...which makes this pretty much useless.
If only there was a way to have them be private and still get this to work, it would be an indispensable plugin.

OK, I've read further, but I didn't interpret that passage this way.

I doubt that besides keeping the user databases synced somehow, there is no way at the moment to do this then.

FreedomTrip, can you explain in more detail how you want to use Limesurvey and how you want both tools to be connected?

Hello,

I think the problem is that it matches the Wordpress users with the LimeSurvey users and not with the participants in the token table. I had a look at the source code of this plugin ( plugins.svn.wordpress.org/surveypress/trunk/ , file survey-press.php) and found in it, there is nothing for communicating with a token table.

The problem might be that users in LimeSurvey are global while participant settings are defined in the token table of the specific survey.

Perhaps we can customize this plugin to do as we want.

Maybe when the central participant database is implemented, then it might be worth a look to adapt the plugin to that. I guess it would be a lot easier, though I don't know how exactly tokens are stored at the moment. Is there a table with tokens for each survey?

A table "lime_tokens_SID" will be created if you activate "Token management"/"Initialise tokens" .

This would probably make it more complicated, as you would have to sync the wordpress users with every single token table. So with a centralized database for participants, you just have to sync these and then check which surveys each user can take.

Wouldn't be too bad to have something like that. Together with Buddypress, this would give new opportunities.

Yes, I agree, it would be nice. But if I'm correct the "Central Participants Database" feature will be available in LimeSurvey 2.0 so we might have to wait till it is released.

Updated the plugin! Now you can choose whether to list 'Private Surveys' in user dashboard or not!

I guess we'll survey it...

magiclko wrote: Updated the plugin! Now you can choose whether to list 'Private Surveys' in user dashboard or not!

Wow, that was fast! I guess I'll have to give this plugin a try. So far I haven't seen the need to use it, but it might be a nice feature and open new opportunities.