Occasionally you may need to add custom field values to an existing response, perhaps because a respondent completed the survey using the web URL instead of the email invitation, or perhaps you launched the first round without custom field values and later launched with custom field values. You want to update the original set of […]
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SurveyMethods Quick Report Generator
The SurveyMethods Quick Report Generator is similar to the Results Summary report but it provides additional formatting and export options and also allows you to create and save your own custom reports that can be rerun with the latest survey results at your convenience. You can save as many report templates as you’d like. To […]
Individual Results Report
The Individual Results report displays each survey response in detail. To find this report, log in to your SurveyMethods account, find the survey you wish to analyze and click the Analyze icon () on that row. On the Analyze Survey Results menu, select Individual Results in the Basic Reports section. Elements of the Individual Results […]
Send Reminders to Invitees That Have Not Responded
This article discusses manually sending reminders to invitees that have not responded. If you want to learn about setting up automatic reminders, visit our article Setting Up Automatic Reminders. If you want to manually send reminders to invitees that have not responded, you can do so from the Manage surveys menu. Access this menu by […]
Delete All Partial Responses
Partial responses are survey responses where the respondent began the survey but did not click the Submit button. These may be respondents who closed the window because the survey is taking too long, people who don’t think the survey is relevant to them, respondents who begin the survey and never return to complete it, or […]
Delete Individual Responses
In any survey process, some portion of the responses received will be erroneous or will include results that skew your data, especially if the survey is accessed by a public URL or sent to a large number of respondents. In order to improve the analysis you may need to delete one or more individual responses. […]
Send Emails Through Your Own Email Account with SMTP
SurveyMethods enables you to send survey and event-related invitations, notifications, reminders, and newsletters with your own SMTP server instead of SurveyMethods’ mail servers. This may help the deliverability of your emails and can reduce the risk of your emails getting caught by recipients’ spam filters, especially if your email is being sent within your own […]
Distribute Your Survey with a QR Code
The SurveyMethods launch wizard takes you through the email distribution or web URL launch methods. Once your survey is launched, SurveyMethods allows you to download a QR code that you can use for distributing your survey. A QR code is a 2-dimensional barcode that can be read by most smartphone cameras (e.g. iPhones) or QR […]
Embed a Survey on Your Website Using JavaScript or HTML iframe
The SurveyMethods launch wizard takes you through the email distribution or web URL launch methods. You can use the web URL to embed the survey on your website, but we also make it easy by providing the code to embed the survey using JavaScript or an HTML iframe. This feature can be found in several […]
Web URL Deployment
To launch your survey by web URL, click the launch icon () from the My Surveys page to be taken through the survey launch wizard. You will be taken to the launch menu and can choose to launch via email or to deploy the survey using a web URL. Before you launch your survey, you […]