Hi Guys

I am not sure if this is the right forum. I made a copy of a survey. The questions are all pictures with multiple choice answers. None of the pictures show in the copied version, not even on the front page.

I can add them back in, but I hope there is a better option.

I am working on the latest version (2.64.2+).

Any ideas?

Jan

How are the images implemented? Via a URL from the internet or uploaded directly to the survey? In the first case it should work, in the second case I don't think the images are copied with the survey. You probably have to upload the images for the new survey, then they should show up.

Thank you for the reply Holch. I uploaded the pictures directly to LimeSurvey through the editor, and inserted it that way. Yes, I was hoping I will not have to redo all the pictures again.

Do you suggest that it is better to have a separate picture store/cache somewhere and not use the LS functionality?

Storying the files via Limesurvey is the simple solution, if you don't have any other options. I rarely use this feature, so I actually don't know much about it. But I assume that these files do not get copied over to the new survey. So they are basically missing in the surveys upload folder. I also don't know where they are stored. Can you post the link to one image from each survey? This would give a good indication on where Limesurvey expects the files to be. Probably somewhere in the "uploads" folder. If this is the case (and you have access to the server where Limesurvey is installed), you could try to copy all images via FTP in the respective new folder. Then probably the links will fit again. But not sure and I don't have an example to see how it works.

If you store the images elsewhere and just reference them via fixed URL, there should be no problem at all when copying surveys and you don't need the space various times. So if you are copying a survey on a regular basis and have a lot of images, I would recommend to save the images in one place (can be on the same server as Limesurvey) and then reference them directly via the URL. You'll have the images only once and it is easier to handle. For surveys that will be used only once this doesn't really matter.

Yes, your arguments are correct. I had to re-upload the pictures to get them back. The links from the html look like this:
"" src="/360survey/upload/surveys/643182/images/OIHHGN0.jpg", with 643182 being the survey number, which obviously changed, from the previous survey number, when I copied the survey.

And yes you are also correct that it is stored and that copying them over will do the trick. Bit of a schlep though. Could have been nice if it happened programmatically. I wonder why it doe not?

Thanks for you help. I have learned again.

Jan

Maybe a bug or lack of resources. You have to keep in mind that a lot of this program is or was developed by volunteers in their spare time and it is provided free of charge. So not everything that would be nice or desireable might be implemented. There are many features that could or should be there. But of course rescources are limited.

holch wrote: You probably have to upload the images for the new survey, then they should show up.

Correct, the paths are already changed. So you just need to upload the files with same names to let them reappear.

In older version we had the nice bug, that the image paths weren't updated. If you did a few copys, the images were always delivered from the first survey image folder. If someone deleted that first, old survey everything was gone. Was quite surprised that even copy on the same LS installation isn't copying the files of images. No issues around download big files via browser.

I still don't get why files and images are not copied. Same issue happens with questiontype upload, where the archive function won't contain the files. So you don't have the complete responses.
It would be better to have a folder display for all files related to a survey to keep user on alert about what is placed where.

You can export/import all survey resources (images and files) in the survey settings.