So I ran 3 simple surveys at my office to determine product perceptions based upon functional unit. This gives me the ability to see if Marketing, Management, and Development all think the same things are important. Problem is the report structure is missing!!!

Basic Issue -
Problem is I can’t combine several identical surveys into one report that allows me to look at each grouping individually, against all the other groups and finally as a single monolithic blob of results.

New Feature -
This ability to have a survey that gets published to multiple “demographics” and has separate but combinable pools of results would be really useful.

Meaning that the same survey could be published multiple times. Each publish would be given its own URL and response storage. Each publish could also be associated with a contact or email list. All results are kept separated by published URL but the resulting reports from the survey can be combined across publish boundaries or in any combination.

Anyhow. Hope that makes sense.
Bryan

Cheri

Sorry for the LONG delay in getting back to this..

While your suggestion would work (though I have not tried it) there is a fundamental problem. It puts the group selection process in the hands of the survey respondent. Their interpretation of the question being asked determines the pool they are placed in.

Simply put – there will always be a situation where the groups are defined by some arbitrary constraint that isn’t apparent to the respondent.

Besides, As the survey creator it should be my decision in all cases as to who is part of what survey group.

Example – I have 3 different customer bases – New, Stale, Active, the classification of each is very subjective. – could be determined by how long they have been customers, or how much they have ordered in the past year, or the number of orders per month. So why confuse the respondent with having to try to classify themselves. It makes no sense to me.

Bryan