We're pleased to announce that we just published Laguna Survey version 1.4 to our servers. The new version is as always available to all new and existing account holders.
In this version we've mainly focused on strengthening surveyCanvas, our unique layout-table module for constructing the survey questionnaire. Features added to surveyCanvas include:
- Branching has been vastly improved and is now both easier to use, and more powerful. On the Branching pane, when you choose which page the participant should jump to, you can now choose 'Last page' and 'End Survey' as alternatives, in addition to every upcoming page, as you've been able to before.
Choosing 'Last Page' allows you to set up a branch that will always land the participant on the last page of the questionnaire, regardless of number of pages in the questionnaire, and if you add or remove pages after you've sat up the branch. This makes branching much easier to use.
Choosing 'End Survey' tells Laguna Survey that if the branch is triggered, the participant should immediately jump to the Laguna Survey built-in end-page, without seeing any more of the questionnaire. This will also stamp the participation with an end time stamp. This means that you now longer have to construct the questionnaire in such a way that all participants end up on the last page you've made, where that page has to make sense for all participants, as was the case before.
- New element type: Image. You can now include one or more images in the survey, and place them exactly where you want them. This of course comes in addition to the existing possibility of inserting a header graphics on every page of the survey you produce.
- New element type: Link. You can now insert a web link in the survey wherever you want, choosing whether the link should open in a new window or use the existing window (thus jumping out of the survey).
- All header graphics inserted with the Globals pane will now be proportionally auto-scaled to 800 pixels horizontally, if originally bigger.
Other improvements include:
- It is now possible to change your name and email address from your profile page. If you change your email address, you will be logged out so that you may log in using the new email address.
- Dates displayed in Laguna Survey conform to localization as far as the language preference does, and their display format is now unified throughout.
- The graph showing the answer rates over time in the Survey Report now also show the dates, if any, where no participants took the survey, so that the graph more accurately represent the answers-over-time distribution.
Some bugs have been squashed:
- Associated users of a Business account can no longer edit the organization details in the profile, and they can not use the web store from within that account.
- Business account administrators (i.e. the user who purchased the Business Subscription) can now correctly delete and edit the associated user, when there is only one such associated user.
Many of these new features have been included because of customer feedback, so don't assume you'll be ignored and your request filed away and forgotten if you make a feature request. In fact, all feedback is scrutinized and mined for the last little bit of possible improvement we can do to Laguna Survey.