simonv3/quick-survey

A tool for quick surveys, try it out. (No longer maintained).

Quick Survey

Quick Survey is no longer actively maintained. If you want to help keep it running, reach out!

A tool for quickly building and releasing surveys. Open source & quick to host it yourself.

Demo

Goals

• Single install app using Sandstorm.

To deploy

To install on Sandstorm:

• Visit Quick Survey in the Sandstorm App Market and click "Install".
• Share the link, ask people things!

Contributing

What's needed:

• This tool was built for user experience researchers. So I need user experience testers!
• Ideas for the tool to do.
• Angular / Meteor expertise to go over the code
• Security holes found?

To run locally with Meteor:

1. Install Meteor curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh if it's not already installed
2. Clone repo to a local directory git clone [email protected]:simonv3/quick-survey and change directory cd quick-survey.
3. You might need to run meteor npm install to get all the npm packages working.
4. Run the app to see if it all works SANDSTORM=1 meteor. Sandstorm=1 tells the app to pretend it's running inside of Meteor.

If you want to add an administrator, you'll need to use the API made available by meteor-accounts-sandstorm. Then add a user like so:

SandstormAccounts.setTestUserInfo({
  id: 1,
  name: "Alice",
  permissions: ['owner']
});

Attribution

• Entypo icon font used for icons. It's beautiful. http://www.entypo.com/

quick-survey's Issues

Cannot edit the text of 'other' options.

I have found that people can find the term 'other' in surveys to be, well, 'other-ing'. It can make surveys not especially approachable, and can turn people whose opinions aren't necessarily the same as is common off from filling out the survey.

Is it possible to allow survey creators to edit the text of 'other', so that I can adjust it to be something like 'something else', instead? Thanks!

verify email addresses. this requires being able to send email.

ho hum.

this now works on meteor (by default), it'd be interesting to see how to get it working with heroku.

test with tota11y

report results as issues.

Can the user share the survey after submitting it?

Email notifications of submitted surveys?

I love Quick-Survey on Sandstorm! I am using it for my university course, and having some sort of email notification of submitted surveys would really help me make sure I am responsive to student submissions. Is this something being considered for the future?

Thanks very much,
Paul

demo

Story: As a User Researcher I want to try quickly if the tool suites my needs

What currently happens: I need to deploy to Heroku or set it up via Meteor. Both are not too difficult, but given that many UX researchers have no or limited coding skills this might be a blocker.

What should happen: A demo website where one can try out the software should be accessible via a link.

Fix the A HREF page on Sandstorm

The A HREF link within "Get started on GitHub" doesn't seem to do anything. See this docs section: https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/developing/troubleshooting/#clicking-a-link-in-the-app-does-not-open-the-link

Optionally disable e-mail sending for heroku or self-hosted instance

This is specifically for the "test me" instance to get people to try out.

Pretty URL for sharing

The current sharing URLs are not very easy for people to input,
It may be good to include some instructions of how to create a prettier URL.
I have used a nginx redirect which works well.
Some sort of email tracking may be nice too, so that users have their email field inputted straight away into the survey if it was sent from a bulk email.

    location = /survey {
    return 301 /shared/LlBubZh_U7349GHKiik5aCJambHPYFtUxNdpjs;
    }

Allow reuse of survey after user has filled it in (for one entry-point and multiple users).

We deployed a survey recently (via a public link) and some users found they could not click the submit button,

the gear icon with "Thanks for your time...." is showing rather than the submit icon.
When a form is filled, it requires closing the sandstorm instance before another survey can be filled.
It may be leaving a cookie in the browser session that prevents submission?

Make the "submission complete" view its own page. Use state.go.

Optional publish of RSS feed of results

Let the user decide if they want to publish an RSS feed of results. This could be useful if the results of the survey get piped into something specific.

Share buttons for outside sandstorm

Add a footer

Shared users don't see "manage" interface (sandstorm)

When sharing a form, it looks like shared users are treated as non-admin
It would be good for a sandstorm user to be able to share management with a second user
while still having the public access to the form as submit only.

Allow logic for questions

In many cases, how one answers a question will affect the rest of the questions that one should be asked. Because of this, it would be wonderful if logic existed for the questions.

For example, if a question asks if someone has a car, there may be followup questions for people who say they do (what kind of car, what do you use it for, etc).

As it is, all questions have to be asked, regardless of if they are relevant to the particular person filling out your form. This can result in people not actually completing the form due to annoyance, overload, or time constraints.

Individual Survey Branding

• give users some options for choosing the colors of the survey
• logo?

gh-pages branch for a marketing website

• Visual design
• Piwik

RFE: reordering questions

It would be really nice to be able to reorder the questions without having to delete and retype them!

Feedback on survey save

@jResponse via e-mail:

When you click the Save button there should be some form of feedback. AFAICT that is currently lacking.

Yep! There should be.

Enable downloading CSV on Sandstorm

This doesn't work, and it errors when clicked.

Add question options for checkbox and radio buttons.

• Radio buttons visual
• Editing radio buttons
• Creating radio buttons
• Check boxes visual
• Editing check boxes
• Creating check boxes
• Making sure radio buttons get properly stored
• Making sure check boxes get properly stored

write some tests

Use velocity and mocha to write both front-end and back-end tests.

Show a summary of the results?

Don't allow admin to save without a minimum of 2 radio options.

Radio questions can be "successfully" created without having added a minimum of 2 radio options. The ideal behaviour should be that the survey admin should not be able to save the survey without having provided 2 options for radio selection.

Steps to reproduce (Admin):

• Create new Sandstorm grain of Quick Survey.
• Add new question, select the "Radio" input type option in the dropdown menu.
• Without adding any radio options, save the survey.

View as a respondent:

• "Share Access" to the survey by specifying permissions as "Can fill survey" and creating a sharing link.
• Open sharing link in incognito or another account that does not have Admin privileges to this grain.
• You'll see that the radio question will show up, however, there are no affordances for any action

Screenshot of survey with 0 radio options:

Screenshot of survey with 1 radio option:

Clearer "close editing question" affordance

When an existing survey question is opened for editing it can be closed again by clicking the Edit(Pen) icon once again. A lot of people (like me till I tried it) will be left thinking that not being able to close an edited question is a deficiency.

By @jResponse via e-mail.

On Sandstorm, if a form requires login, store the X-Sandstorm-User-Id of the logged-in user with the form submission

Rationale:

• It'd be cool if there were a way to get even more certainty about a user's name & email address for something like a speaker release form.

User story:

• As a person wanting to use Quick Survey to ask people to sign simple legal documents,
• I want to create a Survey that asks them to submit their name & the current date,
• And I want to configure the survey to require the user to sign in so that Sandstorm verifies some identity information about them,
• And then I want QuickSurvey to store that information,
• So that when my lawyer asks me if the person who typed "Asheesh Laroia" into the form really was "Asheesh Laroia", I can confirm that yes, it was a person logged in as [email protected] to Sandstorm at the time.

Demo website asking for email verification

The [email protected] login is asking for an email verification, and saying that an email has been sent.

Also, admin.com is an actual domain. You should use example.com for examples such as this.

Customize the "thanks for completing the survey" message.

As an enhancement, just show the summary of the survey details, and then toggle the survey as "editing".

Changing between checkboxes and radio buttons should keep the list of options.

It's easy to pick the wrong type by accident. I'm pretty sure that on Google surveys, you can switch between them and keep the options, whereas this one wipes them. I realize it doesn't exactly make semantic sense since the different question types have different meanings... but it's super useful when you aren't paying close attention to which one you picked.

How can i get admin permission. Create surveys?

http://i.imgur.com/fj9H6ec.png

I install with git clone and launch with meteor

Any attempts creating account with my private email, and change with robomongo to admin@ emails - not result

App in sandstorm also without buttons in top-left area for management and viewing surveys

keyboard shortcuts

QuickSurvey on Sandstorm

QuickSurvey on Sandstorm does not appear to have a mechanism to lock the survey in "Survey Only" mode when it shared with others on SandStorm. Allowing "surveyees" to modify the survey is not at all what is desired when conducting a survey!

Upgrade to 0.2.0 meteor-accounts-sandstorm

One Click Deploy

This might be a good place to start investigating

https://github.com/libreboard/libreboard/pull/188/files

Marking a survey as not active deletes the questions. It shouldn't

Write form validation for add-question

Save button resets survey description [sandstorm]

I'm using quick survey on sandstorm.io

When creating a new grain and giving a name, description and end text to the survey I click the save button. The survey is reset and not saved.

Tested with mobile safari browser on iOS 9.

When answering freeform 'other' multiple select option, hitting enter prematurely submits survey

While running a survey today, I got a complaint that someone tried to fill out an 'other' multiple choice option and fill in some text in the text field next to 'other' - when they finished typing that text they hit enter and that submitted the survey rather than submitted their 'other' text entry. Maybe making enter hits not hit the survey when focus is on a text field / text area would help?

Can't remove empty checkbox

I accidentally made one too many checkbox options but can't get rid of the extra one without deleting the question.

Create onboarding experience for admin

Add a title

Multiple "Add Other"?

For radio and checkbox questions, we can Add "other" multiple times.

I guess it is not intended, so it should not be available after adding one such option.

If it is intended, then the survey is broken for the user and it should be possible to change the labels.

Page shows as loading when there's no survey added automatically.

• There's no survey added automatically, what changed?
• Home page should be a bit more elegant about that error.

Can't create question with an 'other' option

If you create a multiple choice question that has an 'other' option, the 'create question' button that submits the question will not work. The work-around is to create the question without the 'other' option, submit it, then go back and edit it and add the 'other' option then. It works ok then.

On survey creation on heroku there is no active survey so the app doesn't show manage and survey.

Refresh fixes this.

On Set Up, ask whether the user wants some of a set of standard surveys

• Email \ Name for a product page.

Make logging in optional on the survey

export to csv

Create other types of forms

It might help to have the option of creating a dropdown/select box in place of multiple radio buttons - when there are numerous options radios can make the survey look longer than it actually is and is liable to turn many surveyees off.

Suggested by @jResponse via e-mail.

My note: Yeah, this is totally on the roadmap, I just hadn't quite figured out how to do this yet. I'll have to have a look at how other survey forms create these questions.