General

The final goal of a survey is to collect responses from those who answer your questions. When the interviewee submits a completed survey, you are the one who decides how to handle the responses.

Here it is possible to make the settings regarding the backend processor of the responses (the online scripts), regarding what you want to do with the responses (collect by email, insert in database) and how you want to handle the responses (light or professional).

In the General tab there are three panels:

In the first panel - General - there are three fields:

Project ID

This field contains the ID (identifier for the project) of the current project (survey file).

This ID appears in the subject of the email response. The connection between the database and the email response is made by this ID when you use the Import responses from default mail client function in the Result Management module.

Note: This field is not an editable field! Each survey has a unique ID generated by the program.

Project name

This is the name of the project which can be modified at any time. This project name helps you to recognize your surveys easier. If you wish to save the project, the file name suggested by the program is the project name, but you can choose another name for the survey file.

CGI script path

The content of this field depends on what is set in the Response handling type:

If the Response handling type is set to Light, this field is not editable and contains the path of the script that runs when the respondent submits the completed survey.

If the Response handling type is set to Professional, this field is editable and contains as a default value processform.php. You are free to change this field, but make sure that the PHP file inserted here exists. Type in the path of the CGI script that runs when the respondent submits the survey.

In the second panel - Response handling type - there are two radio buttons:

Light

If you do not have scripting capabilities on your server, choose the Light Response handling type. The results are processed by a script on the AceBIT server. You are asked to fill in a User ID. In order to get a user ID and to be able to use the Light Response handling type, register your email address with AceBIT. To do so, click the Register button, and fill in an email address where you want to receive the responses. You will receive an email at the specified address in which you are asked to click on a link in order to activate your ID. After you have succesfully activated your ID, copy/paste this ID in the User ID field. After that you are able to use the Light Response Handling Type.

Professional

If you select the Professional version, you can choose between PHP and ASP 3.0. This refers to the type of the script used while processing the responses.

If you choose ASP 3.0, select your installed email component: ASP Mail or JMail.

In the third panel - Responses - there are two check boxes depending on the database type that you have selected in the DB connectivity section.

These two check boxes are:

Send responses by email

If you check this option, define the email address for collecting all the responses. If you do not check this option, that means that you do not wish to collect the responses by email. This check box is available for both database types: Microsoft Access and MySQL.

Insert responses in database

By checking this option you choose to insert the responses directly into the database. This option is available, only if you choose MySQL as database type in the DB connectivity section.