Good Morning,
I just activated my survey, however, when I do so, the sharable link does not seem to be anonymous.
In the help center I only found that the link will be anonymous ( help.limesurvey.org/portal/en/kb/articles/distribute-survey ).
Are there any settings I need to alter to not have my name displayed when sharing the survey?
Thank you and best
Katharina


 

The sharable link has no connection to the person that will fill in the survey. It is one link for all, it is the "open survey mode" (in contrast to the closed survey mode). You do not have any information stored for the respondents (only if you ask them in the survey). So this link is already "anonymous" if you want to call it that.

The "anonymous mode" that you are referring to is for closed surveys only. Why? Because in closed surveys, which make use of tokens to control who can participate and how often, you usually have stored some kind of information about the participants in the token table (e.g. name, email, etc). If you want to send out a survey to a closed group of respondents, but you still want it to be anonymous, then you use the anonymous mode. This will allow you to send out individual links to respondents, but the token (which identifies each participant) is not stored together with the responses (also the time is not stored), so that you can not connect a response to a specific participant. On a side note: The anonymous mode for closed surveys is not that anonymous at all, as there are still ways to pass information from the token table to the survey and store it in hidden questions, but this is another topic.

If you use a open survey where you just share the link with everyone, you don't know who answered what (as long as you don't ask personal data in the survey that allows to identify participants, but that would circumvent also the measures of the anonymous mode anyway).

So this is already anonymous in terms as far as for the survey tool.

Thank you very much, holch. However I was referring to the fact that my name (as shown in the picture) is shown in the shareable link. So if I send the link to a large group of people through a platform for example, they can see who created the survey - which I would like to avoid.

Thank you and best
Katharina

Ok, but there is little that can be done. You chose this name for your Limesurvey installation and the subdomain, so this is what is shown and used as URL.

If you are using the free tier, I recommend to setup a new account (I think the subdomain is connected to your user name in the forum).

If you have a paid package, usually you can choose the subdomain to be used. If this is not possible via the GUI, then maybe open a ticket with Limesurvey GmbH, maybe they can help with that.

For some packages you can even use a proper domain for your account. That might be another interesting option.

Ok, just had a look at my free tier account connected to my forum user account.

Seems like you can change your subdomain once every 24h (even with the free tier, so it should be possible with the paid tiers as well):