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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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What is a ‘slug’?

A ‘slug’ is a short label for something, containing only letters, numbers, underscores or hyphens. In online surveys, the term ‘slug’ is used to refer to the survey short name,…

What is validation?

Some of the online surveys question types allow you to set restrictions on the answers, such as what type of answer or how many answers a respondent can provide. These…

Deleting surveys

…from online surveys and cannot be recovered. You can choose to permanently delete your surveys yourself at any time if you do not wish to wait 30 days for them…

Pre-launch messages

…include in my survey? Question x.y is parameterised but uses spaces in some of its options. This might make using external parameters difficult. Pre-population – Constraints and considerations Question x.y…

What is a "Token"?

…needing to enter a username/password combination. A personalised URL looks like this: https://accountname.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/surveyname?token=xxxxxxxx If you leave the token field blank when providing respondent data, online surveys will generate random, non-guessable…

Using piping in your survey

…meanings: The source question is the question that will have its answer used later on in the survey The anchor is the token which tells online surveys where to insert…

Copying charts from the Analysis Summary

…dynamic charts into pasteable images: Ensure your browser’s bookmarks/favourites bar is displayed. Drag the bookmarklet (grey box) labelled online surveys charts to images (found below these instructions), to your bookmarks/favourites…