Blog Category: Change Log
At SurveyGizmo we are committed to improving our application everyday, quite literally: new tutorials, new features, improved favorite features and catching spelling mistakes made by our programming team. Our promise to you is to constantly innovate and improve our survey software, even we don't always catch all those pesky spelling errors.
Posted - August 14th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Bug fix. Bug in Report question numbering fixed.
- Bug fix. No more erroneous security warnings in Reports.
- Bug fix. Copying of Custom Matrix questions now works properly.
- New feature. Ability to search Email Invite contacts.
- Improvement. Greek characters now supported in csv exports.
- Feature improvement. Improvements to survey Word export.
- New feature. Can now update credit card information and pay invoices inside your Account Settings.
- Reporting upgrade. Reports can now handle large data sets and run faster.
- Reporting upgrade. Questions that use option piping now display in reports.
- Feature improvement. Show/Hide now works with required questions.
- Feature improvement. Show/Hide now works with page logic.
- Bug fix. Required rows within tables are now respected on private domains and preview.
- Feature improvement. Better handling of error messages when navigating back and forth in a survey.
- New feature. Save and continue links
- Feature upgrade. Survey editor now indicates option piping and page piping.
Posted - August 8th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- New reporting option: You can now enable/disable the grouping of insignificant categories into an ‘other’ group for pie chart and bar charts
- SPSS: Open text ‘number’ fields now import into SPSS as numbers
- SPSS: Essay questions now export as a 3000 length character fields in SPSS
- SPSS: Image Choice questions now export properly into SPSS
- ‘Remember Me’ feature for logins now remembers your login across multiple browser sessions
- New Feature: Browse responses now shows the total time it took a respondent to answer the survey in minutes
- Internet Explorer: Security Warnings fixed for the Reporting tab
- Custom Matrix bug fixed when copying this question type
- Question Editor: Increased options on the toolbar, including easy Paste from Word, Flash Embedding, Special Characters, and more
- Question Editor: Linked ‘Add Image’ to SurveyGizmo Files & Templates, including the ability to click to add the link to the file automatically to the editor.
- Question Editor: Automatically expands vertically to accommodate longer question text.
Posted - July 30th, 2008
This Week’s Service Updates: a short list this week as we concentrate on SurveyGizmo 2.0!
- Improved Response Time ‘Partial’ and ‘In Progress’ survey responses are no longer delayed, you can quite literally watch someone progress through a survey from the your browse response screens.
- Survey Email Invitation deliverability improved (even more) We have upgraded the transmission rate of invitations to be more inline with good email practices. As a result, deliverablity to high-end corporate entities has been improved.
- Account Management It’s now possible to update your billing information through your account interface.
- Cross-Tab Reporting Improved Report speed improved and non-applicable options are no longer visible when building this kind of report.
- Uptime Monitoring We have now implemented 24×7 uptime monitoring and notification on all of our servers.
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Posted - July 23rd, 2008
A Short List This Week While We Work on SurveyGizmo Version 2.0!
- SalesForce integration. Long SalesForce actions now load faster and are easier to edit.
- Survey Email Invitation deliverability improved. Changed configuration that will assist in getting email through some corporate and academic firewalls.
- Better survey printing. A new and improved print style sheet for much better printing capability within the survey editor. (Still not perfect. Look for PDF printing down the road.)
- Custom messages improved. Custom messages for closed survey and duplicate protection messages now display properly and within your theme.
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Posted - July 9th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- SPSS export Internet Explorer 7 bug fix
- Internet Explorer 6 Javascript embedded survey bug fix
- Better performance on PDF export. Better foreign character support and table handling.
- Internet Explorer 6 bug fix. Security warning no longer irritates you when navigating survey editor.
- Small bug fix in reporting. Improved checkbox tables display totals.
- Survey auto close improved. Date validation added to close date.
- File uploads improved. File uploads now compatible with page piping.
- SalesForce integration improved. Improvements to SalesForce user interface.
Posted - July 2nd, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- New, easier to understand Publishing Page
- New optimized survey links. Faster load times, better response times, more scaleability.
- Poll charts. Better wrapping of labels on poll charts
- Poll charts. Poll charts now support international characters
- www.surveygizmo.com speed improvements loading overall site and survey support forums.
- Survey User Permissions. Increased number of individual surveys that can be assigned to users within user management (Enterprise accounts).
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Posted - June 3rd, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Bug Fix: URL filtering now works again in all reports
- Bug Fix: Continous Sum questions now properly use Min and Max values
- New Feature:Create ‘Form’ button has been added to the dashboard to simplify the creation of web forms through SurveyGizmo
- Misc Fixes: some long standing spelling errors have been fixed… oops
- New Feature: it is now possible to copy entire pages of questions.
- API Update: ‘folder’ parameter has been added to GetSurveyList command, it allows you to pull surveys from a single folder
- Accessibility: survey questions now use ‘fieldsets’ instead of ‘div’ tags
- Cleaned House: new release cycle and have been architecture deployed. New point releases will roll out every Wednesday at 8am EST.
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Posted - May 30th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- WordPress plugin updates. Survey WordPress plugin has been fixed with contributions from the WordPress community.
- Better Browse Responses. Ability to choose which questions to display in columns on the Overview Page and Browse Responses page.
- PDF improvement. Custom Matrix now appear correctly in PDF print documents
- PDF improvement. Question numbers in PDF now match question numbers in surveys
- Excel export improvement. Long essay questions are no longer truncated.
- Excel export improvement. Continuous sum questions have been added to Excel version of summary reports
- Survey close window button now works correctly across all browsers and platforms
- “All Your Surveys” page has new bulk editing controls
- Survey questions text export improvement. Tables and group questions now export better
- Email Invite improvement. Email Invite links are now included in the Contacts Export
- Email Invite improvement. Can now resend email to a single contact even if person is bounced
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Posted - May 30th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Cross Tab Reports updated. Can now select separate questions for horizontal and vertical options.
- SPSS Export. Improved to include piped questions.
- SPSS Export now zips large files.
- Search page improved to show the correct number of results.
- “Please Select” added to table of dropdown menus.
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Posted - April 30th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Merge codes: You can now display an entire table question with a single merge code.
- Action logging. Survey actions now record success and errors and can be viewed in the Browse Responses screen. This includes ExactTarget and SalesForce integration.
- Continuous sum. It’s now possible to have an “Other” textbox for continuous sum questions.
- WordPress plugin. Has been updated to work on all WordPress installations.
- Apple Widget. Has been updated to work even if you have a large number of surveys.
- TURF analysis. It’s now possible to simulate combinations of 11 items at once.
- Custom matrix questions. You can now randomize rows within custom matrix questions.
- Accessibility improvement. Moving between pages, screen readers now focus properly at top of page.
- Security update. The SurveyGizmo network is now scanned daily by Hacker Safe for increased security.
- HTTP Post Piping. HTTP Post actions can be looped with piping. Perfect for event registration.
- Survey rich text editor updated.
- Time delayed autoresponders. Email autoresponders can now be set to send on a delayed timer. Perfect for sending email series.
- New site search using Google. Much better searches now–tutorials, blogs,forums in a tabbed interface.
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Posted - April 23rd, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Bug fix. PDF report character set improvements.
- Lots of behind the scene improvements in how customers interact with SurveyGizmo.
- Old contact groups now display properly in survey reports.
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Posted - April 2nd, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Export filtering. csv/Excel survey response exports now have access to filtering exactly like reports.
- Spanish translation of unsubscribe and CAN-SPAM footers now available. Thanks for the translation from our customer Webtools.com
- Resubscribes. Unsubscribed contacts in Email Invites can now be manually resubscribed.
- Randomize continuous sum questions. Now possible to randomize the options in continuous sum questions.
- Publishing tips and warnings added. Overflow warning, spell check helper, clear test data.
- Two upgrades. Survey to SalesForce.com integration: Dates and currency will now format into SalesForce.com format automatically. Multiple response questions can now be forced into SalesForce.com (like check boxes, etc.)
- Matrix reporting values. Can now specify reporting values for multiple select questions in a custom matrix.
- Permissions change. Now only Administrators can delete folders.
- New feature. Can freeze a question position within a randomized page.
- Smarter validation checks on radio buttons, check boxes and drop-down menus.
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Posted - March 5th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Survey Email Invite contact export. Ability to download bounces, unsubscribes and survey status to Excel.
- Survey source report. A new option for Summary Reports to show all referring websites to your survey and the number of responses.
- Now able to reorder questions within Custom Groups.
- Improved “Add-as-Needed” reporting
- Calendar pop-ups now work with group questions.
- Now able to send attachments with autoresponders. Available to Enterprise accounts.
- Bug fix. “Include Partials “now properly runs when cookie does not exist.
- Survey builder feature upgrade. Label added for autoresponder and sms “Send by default.”
- Survey Taker Progress Bar Update. If using Disqualify function, the progress bar now correctly shows 100% complete.
- Can now use complex combinations of survey page jumping , show/when logic and piping.
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Posted - February 27th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Feature Upgrade. New survey creation page.
- New survey question templates added. See below:
- Survey template : Online Survey Panel Signup
- Survey template : Focus Group Signup
- Survey template : Product Pricing Survey
- Survey template : Job Application; basic job application
- Survey template : Job Application; job application with resume upload
- Survey template : Employee Exit Interview
- Survey template : Customer Satisfaction - Customer Service
- Survey template : Customer Satisfaction - Technical Support
- Survey template : Customer Satisfaction - Issue Followup
- Survey template : Online Purchaser Survey
- Survey template : Customer Profile Survey - with Purchaser Issue
- Survey template : Consumer Profile Survey
- Survey template : Online Purchaser Survey
- Survey template : Landing Page
- Survey template : Contact Form - Support
- Survey template : Contact Form - with extended lead qualification
- Survey template : Contact Form - basic single page, perfect for embedding
- Survey template : SalesForce.com Integrated Contact Form
- Survey template : Website Feedback Survey
- Survey template : Website Feedback & Visitor Profile
- Survey template : Website Visitor Profile
- Survey template : Online Purchaser Survey
- Survey template : Workshop Registration
- Survey template : Simple To-Do List
- Feature upgrade. Can now filter out Partial surveys from Survey Browse Responses and Survey Overview page.
- New survey question type. Side-by-side menu table
- Survey Export update. Abandoned export for Enterprise and Pro accounts now shows query string variables passed through the link.
- Account storage limit increased. All plan types with file uploads had their storage increased tenfold.
- Bug fix. Survey report exports properly hidden during design.
- Email Invite contacts can be edited.
- Added Merge Code Wizard for default value field.
- More data validation during question creation.
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Posted - February 20th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- ExactTarget and SalesForce integration UI. Minor tweaks to make the interface easier.
- Team UI improvement. Minor tweaks to make Team permissions easier.
- Overflow UI improvement. When over your response limit, a message now informs you.
- Logic flags for survey builder. Red text now appears to indicate logic for descriptive text question types as well.
- Bug fix. Inappropriate error when uploading single contact.
- New feature. Paging for Email Invite contact system.
- Feature improvement. General improvements to receipt system.
- Bug fix. Export to text date filter has been fixed.
- Reporting upgrade. You are now able to filter responses based on variables passed through the survey link.
- Reporting upgrade. Better handling of email addresses in reports.
- Reporting upgrade. Reports will no longer attempt to display averages for non-numerial data.
- Reporting option upgrade. For multiple choice questions, can display answers in original question order or by frequency.
- Reporting upgrade. Auto detect numeric data in open text answers and display appropriately.
- Reporting improvement. Graphs auto suppressed when inappropriate.
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Posted - February 13th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- New Email Invite Tool. New features include improved user interface, improved work flow, unsubscribes, bounces, graphing, spam analyzer, rolled up statistics, merge code helper and more.
- Reporting upgrade. New filtering option “Does not contain.”
- Page Jumping improvement. Simple Page Jumping indicator now shows your settings on hover.
- Reporting upgrade. Can now filter by IP or cookie.
- Drop-down bug fix. Inappropriate options now hidden.
- Bug fix. “Select all” in reporting now properly greys-out de-selected questions.
- Reporting improvement. Combined Reports now have side label options for pie charts.
- Browse Responses improvement. Can now right click on View link to open in another window.
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Posted - February 6th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Logic flags for survey builder. Red text now appears to indicate logic is applied to question.
- Bug fix. Appendices now appear in Excel export.
- Upgrade. Excel exports no longer limited to 255 characters per cell.
Fewer additions this week because of company meeting.
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Posted - January 30th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Apostrophes in email addresses are now acceptable within our application
- Scheduled reports. You can now rerun reports on a scheduled basis–hourly, daily, weekly, monthly. Released for Enterprise customers.
- Scheduled emailing of PDF Reports. You can now email up to 5 people a PDF version of the report with custom subject and body text of the email. Enterprise accounts.
- Report copying upgraded. The report copy feature now works with all report types.
- Faster report creation. Select All/Deselect All questions in report creation.
- Improved date filter in reports. Dates will now properly include current date when filtered.
- Bug fix. Show/when drop-down now displayed with proper question in the list.
- Tweaks to email autoresponder
- Bug fix. Tables with required rows now show/hide properly.
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Posted - January 23rd, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Responses in PDF: Responses can now be downloaded and printed in PDF format. Enterprise only.
- New Report Formats: Summary reports are now available in Word and PDF formats. Pro and Enterprise only
- Reporting Feature Update: After-the-fact duping of reports is improved
- Bug fix: “Other” responses to multiple choice questions will now show data over 120 characters
- Bug fix: Can now switch types in a matrix question without errors
- Reporting feature suppress statistics box: You can now turn on or off statistic boxes in summary reports.
- Response search box: Can now search responses by value or ID.
- Embeddable reports: You can now use Javascript to embed reports in your own webpage. Currently available by request for Enterprise accounts.
- Report improvement: Multi-text box questions now display more relevant summary information
- Report improvement: Summary charts are now alphabetized within frequency
- New report option: You can now set global chart/graph type options within a report
- Survey feeds timing expanded: Feeds now accept times as well as dates for turning surveys on and off
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Posted - January 16th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Script action is no longer as picky about syntax.
- Private domains URL’s remain consistent.
- Private domains will remember if a person has already taken survey. Will give survey respondents choice of editing his/her survey or starting over.
- Server speed is improved.
- Piped values now show up in reports.
- Invite merge codes have been added to the simple Piping Wizard.
- Version 2 csv export to text:
- quotes are now properly escaped
- can now filter by date range
- Charts now default from 0-100% on the Y axis. (Looks better!)
- Improved overall look of Advanced Options page
- Can disable Rich Text editor for Email Invites when needed.
- Enterprise customers had access to custom reports designs. We can match branding for your company.
- “Browse Responses” now has a “View All” feature whereby you can view up to 500 responses at once.
- Option in “Advanced Settings” to prevent search engines from indexing your survey, even if the survey link is published on a website.
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Posted - January 9th, 2008
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- A TURF Simulator has been added for enterprise users. This calculates un-duplicated reach for multiple response questions.
- Report Titles you can now use Option Titles in your reports for Table Questions.
- CSV Export has been improved to show table a question’s top-level question and columns.
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Posted - December 19th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Invite Testing feature has been improved, you can now send a test to 1-3 people, including real merge data selecting randomly from your list.
- Matrix Questions can now be edited while the survey is launched without ‘hiding’ existing response data.
- CSV Export has been improved to show table a question’s top-level question and columns.
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Posted - December 11th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Progress Bar feature has been improved to understand Show/When and hidden pages.
- Linked From has been added to the CSV Export, showing who referred the person to you surveys.
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Posted - December 7th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- SalesForce.com beta integration module is now available for Enterprise customers.
- Menu Show/Hide drop down menus now properly re-hide hidden questions when the value is changed.
- Team Foldering has been added to the main survey list and dashboard
- New API functions SubmitSurvey and GetSurvey have been added to the API
- Side-by-Side Export An exporter that works better with piped values has been released
- Piped Values you can now pipe pages, which have piped questions, which have piped options … yesh. ;)
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Posted - October 30th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- .info is now valid email extension for our lead filtering (sorry .info people!).
- Menu Questions (drop downs and select lists) have been greatly improved.
- Foldering has been added to the main survey lists in SurveyGizmo (just click on the folder icons)
- Tally Quizzes have been added to SurveyGizmo!
- Progress bars display their background colors correctly in embedded surveys now.
- Piped Value Exporting you can now export piped values (page and question) in the CSV export.
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Posted - October 26th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Major Release in Progress: we are currently working on a large release, so the new feature roster will seem a little lighter for the next few weeks.
- Quiz Scoring: There is now a new merge code for QuizScoring that will let you show which questions a respondent got wrong.
- Short Names: you can now assign reference names to questions — which become field names in file exports!
- Script Function: there is now a new script function called sgapiGetResponseData(surveyid,responseid). It returns all the data for that response (provided you own the survey you are requesting) you can then use it to trigger logic ands populate one survey from another.
- Don’t Know multiple choice options will automatically sink to the bottom of randomized lists.
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Posted - September 12th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- New Popup Calendar: a new calendar is available that does not have ‘bleed through’ effects that the old version had. Your respondents can now enter dates with a click of the mouse.
- Improved Page Jumping: surveys now track the page path that a respondant takes, allowing you to jump forwards *and* backwards. Also, the back button works in conjunction with page logic now.
- Bulk Multiple Choice Editing: we have now added a bulk editing tool for those of you with large numbers of multiple choice options!
- Survey Page Paths: you can now see where a respondant got ‘hung up’ in your survey with page paths on the
Browse Response screen.
- Browser Stats now tracks browser usage in your surveys.
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Posted - September 10th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Survey Editing: you can now go back and edit surveys by clicking on the edit link (or sending the edit link to respondants)
- SpellCheck: we have added SpellCheck to the Question Editor.
- Team Management you can now manage teams of users, in effect creating ‘virtual accounts’ inside an Enterprise account.
- Multiple Survey Permissions: You can now limit a user to more than one specific survey at a time
- Response Browser: the ‘browse response’ page has been cleaned up and made more readable.
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Posted - August 21st, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- New question types! You can now choose a rating scale, star rating question, custom question group, custom matrix question in addition to the old favorites.
- New actions! Send mobile text messages, display a quiz score, and take advantage of comprehensive integration with ExactTarget subscriber databases.
- Reporting has more options than ever, including additional filters and your ability to choose which type of chart is used to display data.
- Export your data to text (.csv) or SPSS (.sps)
- Enhanced logic options: it’s now easier to use page logic and branching; just use the gear icon next to each question in the Edit Survey tab to get started.
- Satisfaction Meter: rating questions get pooled into a “see-at-a-glance” chart that shows how satisfied your respondents are.
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Posted - August 3rd, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- SurveyGizmo is now Survey Accessible! We passed the check up and now comply with Section 508 in the Cynthia browser in CSS and HTML
- We are now fully UTF-8 compliant and can support our non-english speaking customers.
- Our new and improved Search Bar is now capable of searching Blog posts as well as the Forum.
- Nine new Templates have been added. Check them out here!
- There is now Automatic unlocking of your Overflow survey results when you upgrade your account online.
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Posted - July 27th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Page Randomization - you can now randomize page order in addition to questions and question options!
- New Action Type: Password Protection - you can now create a login page for your survey with our new self-expiring & single use password action.
- New Option: You can now deactivate IP address storage for truly anonymous surveys.
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Posted - July 10th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- New social networking features for iPoll. Now Polls can be shared with the world and voted up or down in popularity.
- The image chooser question type now allows for multiple or single selections.
- The edit in place for survey titles now correctly accepts apostrophes.
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Posted - July 6th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
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Posted - June 1st, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Cool world map of survey data: Want to know where in the world your survey data is coming from? Check out the new graphic on a survey’s Overview page.
- Embeded Surveys now report in real-time:A minor oversight of ours, several weeks ago we made all surveys real-time. We did not activate this feature for embedded surveys. It has been activated now!
- Text field validation: Yes, you can now assign validation to text field responses. For example, ask a respondent for an email address, and a message will appear immediately if the address is formatted incorrectly.
- Vote protection for embedded surveys: Prevent survey takers from submitting more than one response in an embedded survey. (This feature was already enabled in other types of SurveyGizmo surveys.)
- Updated autoformatting for percentages: Your respondents can more easily delete previous answers. Thanks for the recommendation, Shane!
- Build-your-own-matrix: This new question type lets you ask several questions at once using multiple question types. More info found in our blog posting.
- Upload files and images: Easily upload images, such as your company logo, and add them to your surveys. Learn all about it in our blog.
- Minor bug fix: Star images now load correctly in embedded surveys.
- WordPress plugin upgrade: Yay! The WordPress plugin has been upgraded. It now has the correct embedding link for surveys.
- Upgraded email autoresponder interface: Check it out — we think you’ll find the interface much easier to use.
- Captions and titles for charts: Have pie and bar charts in your polls? You can give them titles or captions above or below the charts.
- Multiple text box minimum number row specification: Wow, that’s a mouthful! In text box questions, you can now require a survey taker to fill out a minimum number of rows.
- Upgraded poll charts: Poll charts now respect deleted responses.
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Posted - May 17th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Show/Hide now works with drop-down menus
- Force Percent Formatting Major upgrade to percentage formatting. It now behaves much better and makes it more difficult to mis-enter data. It has also been added to tables of text boxes!
- sgUID Get Variable: A new special ‘get string’ or ‘url’ variable has been added. Passing a survey a sgUID will automatically de-dupe against that ID. This is perfect for membership websites and profile surveys!
- Helper Messages: Several new ‘helper’ messages have been added to the system to help you build surveys faster!
- Large Survey Editing: Large surveys automatically switch to page-by-page editing (which makes editing them MUCH easier and faster).
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Posted - May 8th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Quizzes: You can now run quizzes (with automated scoring) in SurveyGizmo. Just click “Create Quiz” to get going!
- New Action Type: Script Control: You can now write mini-scripts in SurveyGizmo that can change the way your survey, poll or quiz behaves — you can perform calculations, update question text, anything you can think of.
- Updated Word Press Plug-in: We have updated our word press plugin so it is compatible with PHP 5 machines
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Posted - May 1st, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Email Invites Upgraded: We have made dozens of small upgrades to the email invite code. It now allows larger blasts and editing of your invites.
- Also in email invites — if you forget to add a trackable survey link to your email the system will now warn you. This should help reduce embarrassing mistakes!
- New UI Feature!: We have updated the add-a-question screen to be, well… less primitive.
- Print Survey: This feature lets you print your survey. While not intended to become a “print survey,” it does make it easier to bring surveys to meetings and edit them offline.
- Result Graphs!: That’s right! You can now provide real-time pie and bar charts in your surveys. This is great for real-time polls.
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Posted - April 18th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Editable Error Message: You can now change the “error on your page” error message — a feature that was requested especially by those writing surveys in languages other than English.
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Posted - April 7th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Report Options: Choose from additional options when running reports, including the ability to de-dupe responses and round off percentages.
- Fancy Web 2.0 Features: We added a little AJAX goodness; you can edit survey titles on any page inline as well as inline delete on survey listing pages.
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Posted - April 5th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Export Feature: It’s now possible to export “partially” completed surveys into a CSV document.
- Easy Page Hiding: You can now set a page to hide-itself based on a question on a previous page. This is different from page jumping and works great with checkbox questions where each checkbox toggles a page of questions on or off.
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Posted - April 1st, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Email Invites additions to Results Page: The email body and subject are now printed on the results page for future reference.
- Account Page: some bugs fixed on account page
- Knocked out a bug causing occasional blank pages to be delivered in the survey editor (very annoying bug — we’re happy it’s history!)
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Posted - March 16th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Embedable Survey Feeds: Now you can use JavaScript to embed a survey feed into a page. Then you schedule surveys to flow into the feed, allow you to change content without have to update your webpage
- “None of the above” options sticks to the bottom: If you add a radio button choice “None of the above” and turn on randomize option order, it will stay rooted to the bottom.
- Improved Javscript Embed: The javascript embed code is now shorter again and solves problems with line breaks destroying the code common in many Content Management Systems like WordPress.
- API Key On/OFF fixed: The API turn on system available on account page now works again! A bug was fixed that prevented the on state form staying on.
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Posted - March 1st, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- JavaScript Embed - big improvements: New JS embed code
improves the stability of embedded surveys as well as adding several
new features. JS embedded surveys now can have variables passed in from
the query string. Embedded survey sessions are now tracked with a
cookie which allows a lot more flexibility.
- New question type - Rating Scale: The rating scale allows
you to insert a radio button question with a ranking scale from 1 to X.
You specify the number of gradations and the question will add in the
labels and scale
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Posted - February 15th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Exporting Upgrade: The export wizard format has been improved to allow easier analysis and external database importing.
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Posted - February 9th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Reorder Questions Fix: You can now drag questions to empty pages that don’t already have survey questions - yeah!
- Report Upgrade: Continuous Sum questions now have an improved Summary Report.
See the entire change log of survey software improvements.
Posted - February 8th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Report Fix: Creating filters that result in zero responses no longer time-out your report.
- Report Upgrade: Reports on ranking questions now give you average ranks for each item.
- New Question Type: “Custom Question Group” is now a new question type. It lets you create “repeat on demand” blocks of questions. (The survey respondant presses a “add more” button and an addition copy of the questions appear.
- New Feature: Pipe Question Options from a URL Token. This allows you to add options to a radio, menu, table or checkbox question dynamically from values passed in the Survey’s URL.
See the entire change log of survey software improvements.
Posted - February 7th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- New Report: Combined Survey Report (lets you merge two surveys with overlapping questions into one report)
- Feature: Forward-Only-Survey: You can now make a survey forward-only. The browser’s back button will not let respondents change answers.
- Fix: “Other” options for checkboxes now require a text entry.
See the entire change log of survey software improvements.
Posted - February 6th, 2007
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
- Press Release: SurveyGizmo is now an integrated partner with ExactTarget!
- New Feature: Reports are now available in Excel Format
See the entire change log of survey software improvements.
