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To use a survey created in a survey source like LimeSurvey, you will first have to prepare the survey in the source system. Certain settings must be set in Lime Survey before GemsTracker can actually track the survey and in LimeSurvey you shopuld activate the survey and create a token table.
When the survey is ready in the source, you must synchronize the source in GemsTracker. After synchronization the survey is ready for activation in GemsTracker itself as GemsTracker needs to know who is supposed to answer the survey.
Gems can only link individual survey answers to respondents when the survey setup allows this.
Select a survey and then click on the red encircled icon and then click on 'General settings' in the drop down menu.
Next click on the 'Presentation & navigation' tab and make sure that 'Automatically load URL when survey complete?' at the bottom of the page is set to 'Yes'. This makes sure the user returns to GemsTracker after completing the survey. The actual URL to return to us set by GemsTracker automatically.
Click on the 'Notification & data management' tab. Make sure the 'Date stamp' field is set to 'Yes'.
GemsTracker needs this field to track when the survey was answered and how much time the user needed to answer the survey.
Click on the 'Tokens' tab. Set:
As GemsTracker is a tool to track survey answers about the same person the surveys cannot be anonymous. The other settings are needed e.g. to allow users to reuse question answers from an earlier version of the same survey or to preset the answers depending on who is answering the survey.
Finish by clicking on 'Save'.
Once a survey is as good as ready to use, you need to activate the survey in LimeSurvey, After activation you can no longer:
However, it is still possible to: