New Features in The Survey System Version 11.0

Version 11 adds many exciting new features to make your surveys and reports even more impressive. Other new features make The Survey System simpler to use and save you time. You can move your mouse over an image on this page to enlarge it, just as you can in surveys.

(If you do not have Version 10.5, also see What's New in Version 10.5)

Questions

Use answer choice and sub-question labels of any length
Record device type - PC or Mobile
Edit questions from the Create Web Questionnaire window
Disable question dragging in the main window

Logic

Trigger skips and calculations based on the number of responses given to a question
Alphabetize the order in which answer choices appear
Update panel data with the answers to a survey question

Reports

Create JavaScript charts (see below why this is important)
Create online dashboards that show selected tables and charts on the report selection page
Let Web report users save custom reports with banners and filters to reproduce with a single button click
Create tables and charts that combine results from multiple data files
Use colors to highlight differences in percentages or means
Display percent signs when using numeric questions as top box summary tables
Use answer grid sub-questions as instant banners
Create DOCX Files

Web Surveys

Create responsive design surveys that adapt to different devices
Record device type - desktop or mobile
Use an external CSS file to control fonts and other page characteristics
Highlight answers when selected
Automatically submit pages with only a single question when a choice is picked
Limit email invitation recipients by imported variable values
Include a time setting for automatic expiration dates
Show a countdown of characters left in a multiline verbatim answer
Show tooltips/pop-up help when the user hovers over or taps a link in question labels or answer choices in a Web survey
Display the media player to the right of the question text
Display multiple choice categories in separate columns
Show buttons at left, right or center
Vary the space above buttons
Fix buttons to bottom of page
Add an Exit button that jumps directly to the end page or a specified question
Add a button to clear all answers off a page
Delete multiple files at one time using Transfer Files

Call Window with Large Introductory Font

CATI/Web CATI

Create subsets of sample files based on attempt dates
Create subsets of sample files based on imported variable values
Have a do not call call result automatically add numbers to the Do Not Call list
Create reports that combine results from multiple sample files
Exclude duplicate telephone numbers when merging sample files
Change the Call window introductory text font
Limit how many people from each quota group can be called at one time
Import sample file variable names
Exclude individual imported variables when exporting results
Place SSI files in the options folder

Off-line Mobile Surveys

Send data from off-line Android surveys to a server, either after each survey is completed or later when the device has an Internet connection, automatically or manually
Show colors and font characteristics in question text in off-line Android surveys
Show only the Question File name on opening screen
Show a list of Question File names with adjacent Start buttons
Show a list of Question File names with adjacent Start and Count buttons
Include more than 99 answer choices

Panel Management

Automatically update the main panel database when panelists answer survey questions
Inactivate panelists from a list
Add incentive points to panelists from a list

Chart Technology Notes

Earlier versions of The Survey System created charts using a Java applet. Until recently Java was the most common technology used for web applications, but now Google and other browser publishers consider Java to be a security threat. Users of recent browsers need to grant special permission to let Java run and soon will not be able to let Java run at all in some browsers. Version 11.0 now lets users create JavaScript charts, which work in all browsers without requiring special permission.

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