Greetings,

I am using LimeSurvey 2.06+. I am unable to add a user and associate him to a survey. The following lists the problems:

1. The docs say to click the lock icon at the top to add a user. When I mouse over the lock icon, it says "Manage survey administrators". Shouldn't it say "Manage users" (and we can assume that a user could be flagged an administrator)? Took me some playing around to figure out that's where you add non-administrators too.

2. I added a user group. When I go into the user group, I see the admin user. Good. But now I want to add my regular user too. I expand the Username dropdown and I see and select the user I added. Fine. Then I click the "Add user" button. The system responds with:

Failed to add user.
User already exists in the group.

I have two users in the system; "admin" and "Blake". "admin" is showing as a member of my group, but I can't add "Blake".

I'm kind of lost. Sure appreciate any help.

Thanks.

Blake

OK. Actually, this is a little "inconsistency" in Limesurvey.

The Limesurvey users (someone with access to the administration) is called a administrator. You can give those people different rights. then there is the term "superadministrator", which are those administrators that can basically do everything and are responsible for the installation.

I hope this makes it a little clearer?

Thanks, that help, but I am still unclear.

I think what you said is that a "user" is really an administrator (at one level or another). Is that correct?

What about people, not administrators, that are taking the survey? What are they called? Participants? How do I add these people?

Thanks!

Blake

Yes, Holch is correct, "Users" are admins of some level. "Participants" are survey respondents. They can be added via Tokens or the Central Participants Database .

1. No, because in LimeSurvey, users (survey owners) are called "administrators". This was a linguistic error. Yes, in the Real World™ they would normally be called users or (better) survey owners).
2. This is a bug: you can't add users ("administrators") to a group in 2.06+. You have to upgrade to do this.

permission system and user system would be one of the big changes for next major release (LS 4.x)

Once you get used to it, it's fine, and works extremely well. It's just slightly weird compared with the way the rest of the software world thinks of things