We are very happy to announce that Laguna Survey 2.0 has now gone live on our servers!As always, the new version is served to all new and existing customers.
There are many new features in this version, but the three major ones are:
- We are converting our price model into one where we charge for answers instead of number of particpants added to a survey. At the same time we are setting up all new surveys that you create with 25 (updated to 75 as of v.2.1) free answers.
We think this is a big deal for our customers because there is now nothing to pay if you don't get what is important to you: answers to your surveys. And even then, you get 25 (75 as of v.2.1) free answers for every survey. And even if you get more, it is up to you if you want to pay for some or all of those answers.
- Laguna Survey now supports open surveys. All new and existing surveys now have an open link associated with them that you can spread or publish on the web. When the link is clicked, the survey is taken. At the same time, explicit particpants will continue to work as before, and you use both the open link and explicit participants in one survey.
- Speaking of participants, you can now add participants in several batches, both before and after the survey has started. This means you now longer have to duplicate a survey if you for example get hold on a few more email adresses to people you would like to have as participants in a survey you have started.
We would additionally like to tell you about our new Laguna Survey User's Manual, which you can download from http://www.lagunasurvey.com/documentation
The user's manual takes you through the whole process of setting up and starting a survey, and more, step by step. It is heavily illustrated with screen shots from Laguna Survey.
Other new features and enhancements in Laguna Survey 2.0 include:
- The questionnaire is now editable in surveyCanvas even after survey start. surveyCanvas opens the questionnaire in a limited editing mode after the survey has started. In this mode, you can edit the text and graphics elements and certain visual setting.
- surveyCanvas now has a 'Print...' button in the Tool pane, which enables the questionnaire to be printed with 'nice' formatting, i.e. one page of the questionnaire will result in one page of the printout, and the graphical header, if you have inserted one, will show on each page.
- You no longer choose whether participants should be anonymous or not when you add them. Instead, you choose at the last possible moment, right before you start a survey.
Some error situations have been corrected:
- More stringent file checking has been put in place to files added as images in surveyCanvas, and as participant data in the Participants panel.
- The order of the asynchronous calls made to fetch the answer quantity and population in the Results panel has been corrected so that all numbers and percentages are always correctly displayed.
- A number of minor localization errors have been addresses.
- A problem with copying the questions from one survey to another has been corrected
- Several browser-specific issues have been addressed.
We are actually pretty impressed with ourselves and happy about version 2.0, and we really hope you are, too. Why can't you take a enterprise type task, make an application for it and program it to the brim with pro features, wrap it in a consumer-like friendly interface and sell it with a price model that appeals to big and small players alike?
We couldn't come up with a good answer to that question either.