Welcome to the LimeSurvey Community Forum

Ask the community, share ideas, and connect with other LimeSurvey users!

Limesurvey vs SurveyJS -- Opinions welcome

tsmith11
Topic Author
Offline
New Member

More

8 months 4 weeks ago #268378 by tsmith11

Limesurvey vs SurveyJS -- Opinions welcome was created by tsmith11

Please help us help you and fill where relevant:
LimeSurvey version: [see right hand bottom of your LimeSurvey admin screen]
Own server or LimeSurvey Cloud:hosted
Survey theme/template:
==================
Hi.
Researching the survey apps (Limesurvey, as well as SurveyJS). Does anyone have any experience with both, and pros/cons in terms of your like/dislike?

thanks

The following user(s) said Thank You: DenisChenu

Please Log in to join the conversation.

holch
Offline
LimeSurvey Community Team

More

8 months 4 weeks ago #268390 by holch

Replied by holch on topic Limesurvey vs SurveyJS -- Opinions welcome

I have no personal experience with SurveyJS but had a quick look at their website. Overall, it looks interesting/promissing.

However, seems like if you want a real backend you will have to pay for it. The essential package (which is free) seems to be limited to creating surveys through code.

but thank you for the link. I will have a look at this and play around. For Adhoc surveys I don't think it is a good tool (seeing that it lacks the backend capabilities), but for creating forms that are more general this might be interesting.

I like that they have an E-Signature field, that could solve one of my main issues i currently have for a specific task.

Help us to help you!

Provide your LS version and where it is installed (own server, uni/employer, SaaS hosting, etc.).
Always provide a LSS file (not LSQ or LSG).

Note: I answer at this forum in my spare time, I'm not a LimeSurvey GmbH employee.

Please Log in to join the conversation.

Joffm
Offline
LimeSurvey Community Team

More

8 months 4 weeks ago #268393 by Joffm

Replied by Joffm on topic Limesurvey vs SurveyJS -- Opinions welcome

I like that they have an E-Signature field, that could solve one of my main issues

There is a signature field in LimeSurvey - not "out of the box" but with question-theme "signature" from Adam Zammit.

Joffm

Volunteers are not paid.
Not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless

Please Log in to join the conversation.

holch
Offline
LimeSurvey Community Team

More

8 months 4 weeks ago #268394 by holch

Replied by holch on topic Limesurvey vs SurveyJS -- Opinions welcome

Oh, good one, Joffm. I thought there was something, but I thought it was only for Offlinesurveys.

Will have to have a look into this. Together with PDFReport this might solve my issue for letting respondents sign NDAs.

Will have to look into this.

Help us to help you!

Provide your LS version and where it is installed (own server, uni/employer, SaaS hosting, etc.).
Always provide a LSS file (not LSQ or LSG).

Note: I answer at this forum in my spare time, I'm not a LimeSurvey GmbH employee.

Please Log in to join the conversation.

holch
Offline
LimeSurvey Community Team

More

8 months 4 weeks ago - 8 months 4 weeks ago #268395 by holch

Replied by holch on topic Limesurvey vs SurveyJS -- Opinions welcome

Installed the plugin and tested it. Works like a charm. Thank you Joffm. I was looking into a simple way to get the NDAs signed without paying loads of money to DocuSign, which offer a level of sophistication that I don't really need.

No I will just have to play with PDFReport (which I had on my list for quite a while now) and make it work so that I can have the signed NDAs as PDF.

Help us to help you!

Provide your LS version and where it is installed (own server, uni/employer, SaaS hosting, etc.).
Always provide a LSS file (not LSQ or LSG).

Note: I answer at this forum in my spare time, I'm not a LimeSurvey GmbH employee.

Last edit: 8 months 4 weeks ago by holch.

Please Log in to join the conversation.

Joffm
Offline
LimeSurvey Community Team

More

8 months 4 weeks ago #268398 by Joffm

Replied by Joffm on topic Limesurvey vs SurveyJS -- Opinions welcome

Now to cpme back to SurveyJS.
And answering the other post of the TO about embedding, too.

In my opinion "SurveyJS" is a better choice to embed a small survey in a web page.
Where you do not need any participants management.
But a small poll should be fine.

It's a easy to handle GUI (equal to the new planned designer of LimeSurvey)
Same type of conditions to hide questions depending on previous answers.

I only used the "Create free survey" option and got the json script.
And I embedded as described in the Documentation / Get started.