New Edit Details Action Button

For more convenient access the survey's Edit Details menu option has been added to the list surveys display action buttons.

Create a Survey - New Folder Option

When you create a survey you now have the folder options to leave the new survey unassigned, assign it to an existing folder or specify a new folder name.

You will be able to change a survey's folder assignment by using the Manage Folders and Assign Folders menu options, or a survey's Edit Details menu option.

Survey File Management Facility

We have now added support to allow folders to be created and assigned to surveys for easier management.

For more details please view the Survey Folder Management tutorial.

Survey 'Edit Details' Displayed Reorganized

The survey's Edit Details display options have been re-ordered and reorganized into six sections, General, Runtime, Presentation, Language, Popup and Search Engine Optimisation options; with the exception of the General section, sections can be expanded or collapsed.

You can also now use the Edit Details menu option to assign individual surveys to predefined folders.

The Public Decide Blog - Public Surveys

A new Blog, The Public Decide, has been associated to the main Survey Galaxy website.

The Public Decide blog features fun and topical public surveys for all the family.

The link, Public Surveys, can be found on the home page in the footer section.

Questionnaire Questions

Many people find themselves in a position where they know they could benefit from conducting a questionnaire but have difficultly on deciding what questions to ask.

Questionnaires come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can be conducted for a plethora of reasons and there is unfortunately no definitive answer to what the right questionnaire questions should be.

Our latest article Questionnaire Questions provides some basic guidelines for writing effective questionnaires.

Survey Questionnaire Checklist

So you have created your questionnaire and are ready to publish it to the Internet, before you do why not just run through a final checklist to confirm what you already know that your questionnaire is as perfect as you think it is.


Check out our latest guide Survey Questionnaire Checklist.

Enhancement - Response Capture Facility Updated

The Response Capture facility has been reworked to make it easier to enter response data from external sources, remove unwanted and modify existing responses.

To activate the facility, select the survey that you wish to modify, then use the Capture menu option.

The Capture menu will only be displayed for surveys that have been previously published, changes can be made to surveys that are no longer published but the facility will only operate on the latest dataset.

Getting the Best Out of Survey Galaxy

The Survey Galaxy interface is designed so that new Members find it easy to use and simple to learn, but that can mean that some of the advanced features are hidden from view and sometimes a little guidance wouldn't go amiss to reveal features that may help you design better surveys.

If you would like a little guidance please view the new article added to our Article library Getting the Best Out of Survey Galaxy.

Spotlight - Business Surveys

Besides the traditional Customer, Employee, Marketing and Market Research surveys there are many other areas of business that can benefit from using online surveys.

From helping to write your business plan, assisting in promoting and managing health and safety and compliance issues online surveys can be adapted in many different ways.

Listed here are articles from the Survey Galaxy article library that detail some of the areas where online surveys can really benefit a business or organization.

Id	Title
11.	Let Your Survey Write Your Business Plan
23.	The Compliance Officer's Killer Application
30.	Surveys - The Effective Management Tool