Complex Branching
Shows the advanced branching techniques available through the use of Custom Actions.

Branching is used to conditionally show or hide parts of the survey depending on answers to previous questions.

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Multilanguage Survey
Shows a survey in multiple languages using ViewsFlash internationalization capabilities.

Responses from each language version of the survey are aggregated and stored with the responses from the main survey (usually English). The language of each survey response is included in the saved data so that results can be analyzed by language.

Spanish Survey

English Survey

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Taking survey off line
To take a survey off line, open it in IE, save it, and go offline. Open the saved survey in MS Word, fill out the answers and save it. Go back on line, open the survey in IE, press Submit. Alternatively, open it in IE and use File / Send / Page by E-mail to send it to recipients, with instructions to save the survey as an attachment and continue as above.

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Prepopulating questions by looking up values in a database
Shows how a survey can retrieve values from a row in a database indexed with the User ID of the survey taker.
In this example, enter a number from 1 to 9 as the user id and press Submit to take the survey, and watch how certain fields are pre-filled. Normally, they would be hidden fields rather than visible fields.

Survey with common questions
Shows how a survey can contain a set of questions common to all surveys run on the site. When a visitor votes, their responses are used to vote automatically on a survey of just the ongoing questions. The responses to both the periodic and ongoing questions are saved together in the same row for performing data analysis while the survey of ongoing questions can be analyzed independently to see how opinions are changing over time.

The example uses the IssueHTTPQuery custom action to submit the vote to the ongoing survey.

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Data Analysis [ ongoing | periodic ]

Piped Variables & Custom Content
After tallying a visitors vote on a poll embedded in a dynamic page, ViewsFlash redirects back to the dynamic page with the visitors choice coded into a command tail. The dynamic page parses the command tail and customizes the page content based on the visitors poll choice.

Cogix offers SDKs for integrating polls with JSP, ASP, and ATG Dynamo.

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Customized survey using extra fields and piped variables
Visitors responses are piped to successive pages in the survey and are combined with extra fields to create media rich messages based on the answer chosen. The extra fields can be used to specify hyperlinks, images, or any rich content of your choice.

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Advanced Quiz with Top-10 Scoreboard
Three quizzes are presented with the idea that they would be offered successively over a period of time. Users must log in to participate in the quiz. When the user completes a quiz their score is used to update a database table that tracks their cumulative score. A dynamically updating "scoreboard" page uses this table to show the Top-10 participants.

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E-Mail Invitation List
A survey invitation is sent by email to a defined list of respondents. Tracking is enabled and reminders may be sent to participants that have not yet completed the survey. This example uses FORM authentication with the userid and password included in the invitation list. Many other security options are possible.

To send an invitation, click on Setup invitation list and login with username=guest, password=guest. Then scroll to the "Comma delimited list" section. Remove any existing lines then add several of your own. Include your email, name, userid, and password. Each email address and userid must be unique. Press submit to save the list.

Click on Invite and Track. Enter your email address in step #4 and press the "Send test email" button. You'll soon receive an email showing what the invitation will look like. When ready, press the "New" button in step #5 to send the invitation to all of the entries on your list. Check your email in a few minutes and you'll have the invitation to the survey. Click the link in the invitation email and login with the userid and password you supplied to the list. Take the survey.

When you're finished with the demo, return to the Setup invitation list page and remove the lines you entered and press submit. This demo list will be purged periodically.

Invite and Track

Setup invitation list