We are very happy to announce a brand new version of Laguna Survey, now live on our servers!
For this version the number one thing we have done is to completely overhaul the Result Panel and add a new great new feature: A results report that collects the results from your survey into an easy to read, comprehensive report.
The Results report runs from the first to the last question and displays multiple choice question results in tables and text from textual answers. It is great for getting a readable summary of the results for reference and discussion.The report contains a few tools at the top; options to display the text you have entered into the questionnaire in surveyCanvas, and to number the questions in the report. And, in Laguna Survey Enterprise, a tool for including only a subset of the results in the report, based upon the participants' answers. See the manuals for more information.
Other enhancements in Laguna Survey 2.6:
You can now serve the questionnaire to your audience embedded in another webpage. When creating a new survey, the 'Show link' command will display the necessary html code for embedding a survey. See the manuals or help section in Laguna Survey for more details.
We have now introduced the ability to send HTML formatted email invitaions and reminders from Laguna Survey. The mechanism is simple but effective: You activate it with a single checkbox in the Startup panel: Check it and Laguna Survey will use the header you have created in surveyCanvas for the questionnaire, at the top of the emails as well. The text you enter for the email message in the Startup panel will be displayed in the HTML message as you expect, and will also be sent as plain text for those email clients which does not understand HTML. The message itself will display in an 800 pixles wide box (with the header image scaled down to match, if necessary), much like how the questionnaire itself is displayed.
We find that this works best if you create an 800 pixels wide image with the height of 60-90 pixels, but any image will do, and the background color will be included, have you specified one in surveyCanvas. The setting is ignored if you haven't made a header in surveyCanvas.
Supersecret, undocumented feature: You can now employ some simple formatting to the email message: Use codes to get [b]bold[/b], [i]italics[/i] and
[h]header[/h]
in your message. No GUI is exposed for this in this version, so you'll have to enter the codes manually. Aren't you glad you read this?
We have switched on SSL as the default for participants for this version, which means the questionnaire is always served over a 256 bits encrypted line, just like Laguna Survey (the webapp) has been for some time. Note that the link that Laguna Survey produces still has the http:// prefix, the switch to https:// is done on first access to our servers. We are still investigating the optimal configuration for this.
The chart showing answers per day in the Survey report now shows both started and finished answers. More ready-made info for you.
The list of surveys now shows the newest at the top. This seemed like a better arrangement, especially if you have many surveys and the list starts to scroll.
Oh yes, accompanying this realease is a design and contents update for both the webapp and our public pages.
We hope you enjoy the extra spit and polish!