Lotus Quickr Template Demo - QSurvey
Category NoneIn my third demo, you'll be introduced to QSurvey, a component that allows you to create surveys, lets users take them, and provides two methods of generating survey reports. I'm loving this one myself, because having been in the Lotus world for nearly 15 years now, surveys have been in demand and really hard to do. There have been and may still be some third party products for this. I've even built it myself, many years ago. There was much pain in the days when it was nearly impossible to assemble fields onto forms without being a trained developer, and have it look good on the web.
The implementation here in Lotus Quickr is fairly elegant, as we store all the survey questions as JSON, all the answers as JSON, and simply reassemble it all for the live reports. What I like about QSurvey is how easy it is to use...I can create a survey quickly with a question "wizard", enable it, and let people take it for either a defined period of time or disable it myself. And of course, there are options for securing the survey, deciding who can see result reports, and choosing whether to allow anonymous access.
So without delay, let's go check out the QSurvey demo. Don't forget, please ask questions here...or meet us at Collaboration University where each template will be reviewed, analyzed, and broken down for you.
Comments
I can immediately see three or four customer situations where this is going to be so useful, in particular the ability to integrate this in with other Quickr apps - so perhaps the user completes their business process in another Quickr application (reviewing and approving a presentation for example) and then is prompted to complete a survey regarding that process.
I really like the lights out feature where the front layer so obviously has the focus - very neat... Stuart
Posted by Stuart McIntyre At 11:07:52 PM On 06/14/2007 | - Website - |
Very quick
Very easy.
I may have missed it, but can you have anonymous answers to surveys?
Posted by Paul Mooney At 08:59:03 AM On 06/15/2007 | - Website - |
1) When you created a new survey question the number did not seem to increment in the preview area. i.e. preview of question 2 while it was being created said question 1.
2) The subsequently created questions seemed to "inherit" values from the previous question when maybe they should get cleared out?
Anyways fantastic work and I can't wait to start using these perception changing templates. Really I mean it.
Elijah Lapson
Posted by Elijah Lapson At 11:43:04 AM On 06/15/2007 | - Website - |
@Elijah - thanks for the comments. QProject (which is enhanced tasks...) is done so the movie is coming... So on the other two items, we actually considered them during development, let me explain why we made the decisions we did. On the incrementing, we decided not to because it is only a "placeholder" for the number, you could go back and edit a given number, drag and drop to arrange them, etc. Harder to keep track of the real number at all times, with little value. On the "Inherit", we left it there because it's possible that several questions in a row will require the same set of answers. Like a satisfactions survey with the same five answers for instance - leaving them there makes it easier to build something like that rapidly. Of course when you are not doing that, you have to change things around, but we found it to be less work to erase than to retype. For a future rev of this template perhaps we will have an option to repeat or create new blank question.
Again thanks.
Posted by Rob Novak At 01:15:27 PM On 06/15/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Rob Novak At 01:22:03 PM On 06/15/2007 | - Website - |
That makes sense to me. Thanks for the rationale and again great work.
P.S. Can I vote to make QProject the next demo movie?
Elijah
Posted by Elijah Lapson At 01:32:35 PM On 06/15/2007 | - Website - |
Is there, or could there be, an opportunity to use this interface as a feed, maybe vai XML, to other survey or profiling systems.
What is happening behind the interface - is there a "standard" for question formats- or for question responses?
Posted by Rowan Mitchell At 12:40:34 AM On 06/25/2007 | - Website - |
Can it be integrated with Crystal Reports or some other tool to show graphical reports about the surveys?
Thanks in advance!
Posted by Pablo Andriolo At 06:59:32 AM On 06/29/2007 | - Website - |
Is it possible to create dynamic link from a specific action in a WebApp to a specific survey. For instance, anytime a user performs a certain action we want to initate a survey to better understand the user experience. Obviously we are talking about a J2EE app running as a WebSphere Portal. Thanks in advance...
Posted by Drew Lamosse At 10:37:21 AM On 08/20/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Karen Richard At 08:16:39 AM On 09/26/2007 | - Website - |
Thanks
Posted by Jim At 10:35:16 AM On 03/07/2008 | - Website - |