Hi everyone!

I use LimeSurvey to run a Delphi-Study (multi-round-online-focus group to gather consensus among experts). Without diving too much into detail, my participants have created an Alias in a previous LimeSurvey which contains 6 letters + 2 numbers, see here:



As such, participants can only answer the survey questions after verifying through their Alias which allows me to remind them to participate if they have not done so already, and (most importantly) it allows me to link their responses to analyse changing voting behaviour.

During my routine check-up to see who needs to be reminded, I was welcomed with this interface in my "answer" overview:


The most important field of all - the Alias - is not displayed correctly and I have no idea what happened or how I can fix it. I have tested every Alias before starting the survey, I have several experts who already participated through their Alias, and I have not changed anything. ALL ideas welcome!!!!

Thank you so much!

Hi,
sorry, I can't reproduce.
 

But of course there is a lot of information missing.
At first you did not answer the questions at the beginning.
At least you should have mentioned the version.

I supposed it is an open survey.
You use a question of type "short text" where the respondents enter their alias; and this question is coded "Alias"?
 
 
But this way I do not see an issue

Or is it a closed survey and you uploaded these "aliases" as "token"?

Sp, please, a bit more information.
Best you provide the lss export of a few questions where you can reproduce it.

Joffm

Did you encrypt the Alias field?

Cheers everyone,

For some reason, the answer table today looked just fine and how it should look - as if this issue had never happened. This means: For now, it's all fixed, fingers crossed, it doesn't corrupt again.

To answer your questions: I use my University's subscription which is Version 5.6.60+240423. The survey itself is an open survey and the Alias is asked through an open short free text that is restricted to 8 characters.