Don't remind who, but i see a really good dashboard using shiny/R-studio own server.

Hi,

a clean & quite easy way to provide charts is to use chart.js library ( chartjs.org )...
Note that all the features of this library are also available via clouflare's cdn:
cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.3.0/Chart.bundle.js

I think today Limesurvey has everything that you need when you want to create your own dashboard. With access to the database you can basically do whatever you want with the data.
The problem with dashboards today, especially for market research and here especially in the adhoc area is, that you need to be able to create dashboards relatively simple and quick. If you have a continous survey over many years with no or little changes custom development might be an option. But I can't really start to create custom dashboards for each adhoc study.
If the costs of a dashboard is a lot higher than what the tools mentioned here cost, then the client should think about changing providers. Of course, if you need something really, really specific, then there is probably no way around custom creating a dashboard. But otherwise I would always go for one of those tools. The cost money, yes. But the developer also costs money and I assume that those plattforms are usually more robust than custom development.

holch wrote: I think today Limesurvey has everything that you need when you want to create your own dashboard. With access to the database you can basically do whatever you want with the data.

Offering a usermanagement for reports/dashboard would be nice. Could be a page with html editor like when creating a question page. You could add javascript and html. Second step would be exposing data via an interface. That would be a lot more stable than accessing via MySQL directly via a thirdparty tool. Allowing public report via a customized link with usermanagement to limit access.
Reporting is more cruical than dashboard. Since LimeSurvey is going SaaS first, the competition in reporting and dashboard is no longer limited to open source. In SaaS surveyspace nobody cares about opensource.

A usermanagement around shiny server or other html/js tools sound like a viable step.
Is the usermanagment accessible via plugin api? Adding own permission sets isn't possible, is it?

jelo wrote: ...
A usermanagement around shiny server or other html/js tools sound like a viable step.
Is the usermanagment accessible via plugin api? Adding own permission sets isn't possible, is it?

In fact : remote control API use existing Permission of limesurvey, then use the same user on RC tool can be a solution.

The RC tool for login use the RC API login system.

Maybe

driz wrote: With the amount of dashboard tools out there, I am not sure whether LS needs to provide this functionality.

There is no mission statement, in which market LimeSurvey wants to play a role. LimeSurvey as a SaaS seems to play a more important role that OnPremise. The redesign of the Website and the new pricing seems to confirm that.
In the SaaS space open source is less relevant for the buyer. So the competition is bigger and tougher.
E.g. SurveyGizmo offers a lot for 1,500 USD per year. No complete dashboard, but the integration of R scripts and Chartlibs into the reporting is very nice. help.surveygizmo.com/help/run-r-scripts-in-reports

R-Scripts seem to be only available in the "market research" package for $ 1500. Yet with all it includes it looks pretty good (offline surveys, reports, crosstabs, r, Choice-Based Conjoint, Max-Diff, Highlighter, Semantic Differential, Heat Maps, Video/Audio Sentiment, Card Sorting).

If you cobine the LS package plus offlinesurveys, you are also basically getting there.

holch wrote: If you cobine the LS package plus offlinesurveys, you are also basically getting there.

This "basically" turns into hours of workarounds.The different SaaS offers in the surveyspace are lowering the prices over time. The no-user-limit might be not enough for LimeSurvey since often the useraccount is shared in companies (I know some companies which are doing that). So you compete often with the one user price. Think about the time savings of having a skip feature. Can cost you hours in LimeSurvey and minutes in the competition. And that is only one feature. The manual is explaining the pro and cons of skip/relevance logic quite nicely
help.surveygizmo.com/help/set-up-skip-logic

That is exactly what I am saying. If you pay the biggest commercial package from Limeservice AND the offlinesurveys app, then you pay around 1300 Euros, which is probably around or above the 1500 Dollars for the "market research" package.
Advantages LS:
- More users
- The arguments "own server" and "control over data" doesn't work with the SAAS model
Advantages SG:
- unlimited responses (?)
- reporting
- some question types that LS doesn't have
- Conjoint, max diff
- ?

holch wrote: That is exactly what I am saying.

Ok, you wrote "basically getting there". Featurewise or moneywise was the question for me

It was meant moneywise. Featurewise I can't really compare, because I haven't seen the other offering yet.

But the discussion is getting off topic, I guess.

For anyone else reading this later also trying to do the same thing, LimeSurvey builds a table in your database for each survey. This table is built either when you activate the survey or when you receive the first response to the survey. The table is called "ls_survey_******", replace the asterisks with your survey ID. Your survey ID can be found in the survey list in the admin of LS, or in the link to the survey (the 6 or so numbers).

The question column headers seem to have the following labelling system:

_____X___X_____

The first part holds your survey ID, the second part I assume the group ID and possible the last part the question ID. I haven't figured this out completely yet.