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.
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June 17, 2009
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Brittany Heidtke
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week:
New Feature: Question Library added
New Feature: Page Falloff report added, providing two graphs of the same data (funnel type and ‘difference’) - Enterprise level
New Feature: Textbox questions have extreme left and extreme right label options
New Feature: In tables/matrices, you can now repeat the column headers every X number [...]
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June 13, 2009
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Christian Vanek
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SurveyGizmo is happy to announce our newest feature, the Question Library.
This has been long sought after by many users so we decided to rally around the effort and get this one out. Your Survey Question Library is available at all paid plan levels.
Right out of the gate the question library includes [...]
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June 4, 2009
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Brittany Heidtke
After many requests and some slots opening up in our Development Team’s time, we were able to roll out a very cool new feature for our Enterprise account users. We now have the ability to schedule Email Invitations to be sent out on specific dates, as well as the ability to schedule Reminder and [...]
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May 15, 2009
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Brittany Heidtke
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week:
New Feature: Individual Partial Responses can now be set to complete.
New Feature: The login action now has an option to “mask” the input with an asterisk (*).
New Feature: Ranking tables now have the option to “rank the top X” by leaving some column labels blank. Reports also reflect [...]
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December 17, 2008
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cwalsh
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week
Table based ranking question. There are now two styles for ranking questions. This new style has been requested by many customers. It is now accessible to screen readers and keyboard navigation.
Bug fix. Survey editor page navigation bug fixed for IE6.
“None of the above” text mutual exclusivity in [...]
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October 8, 2008
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cwalsh
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Quiz scores can now be reported on, even if on the Thank You page.
New Feature. Can now pipe from a single answer question (e.g.radio button, dropdown) to another question.
Speed of exporting large response sets (50,000+) to csv improved.
Non administrators now have the ability to change their own passwords [...]
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September 24, 2008
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cwalsh
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Bug fix on Report exports. Table of dropdowns improved in the Excel, Word and PDF export.
Validation added to SPSS export wizard for variable names.
Greek characters now export to SPSS correctly.
Improved ranking question export.
Custom scripting API functions added. sgapiGetResponseBySGUID. sgapiTrimStr (improved to trim spaces on right [...]
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September 10, 2008
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cwalsh
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New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
New Feature: Reminders and Thank You’s are now copied when you copy an Email Invitation.
New Feature: You can now search abandoned and deleted responses.
New Feature: You can now search by IP or referrer URL.
Several bug fixes for SPSS
Bug fix. You can now copy an Email Invitation while [...]
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August 21, 2008
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cwalsh
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Feature improvement. SurveyGizmo interface images improved.
Survey Question Editor. Design of survey Question Editor improved.
Survey Question Editor. Ability to change question types on the fly.
Major overhaul of SPSS export wizard: Ability to assign SPSS variable names. Ability to assign SPSS labels. Ability to change SPSS variable types during [...]
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August 14, 2008
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cwalsh
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 [...]
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August 8, 2008
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cwalsh
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 [...]
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July 30, 2008
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Christian Vanek
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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 [...]
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July 23, 2008
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cwalsh
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 [...]
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July 9, 2008
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cwalsh
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 [...]
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July 2, 2008
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cwalsh
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 [...]
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June 3, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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… [...]
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May 30, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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May 30, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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.
See the entire change log of [...]
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April 30, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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” [...]
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April 23, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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.
See the entire change log of survey software improvements.
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April 2, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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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 [...]
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March 5, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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February 27, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Check out all the new survey templates that were added by logging into your account or creating a free account right now!
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 [...]
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February 20, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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February 13, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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. [...]
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February 6, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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.
See the entire change log of survey software [...]
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January 30, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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January 23, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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January 16, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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January 9, 2008
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Brittany Heidtke
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.
See the entire change log [...]
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December 19, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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December 11, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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.
See the entire change log of survey software improvements.
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December 7, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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October 30, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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October 26, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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September 12, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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September 10, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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August 21, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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August 3, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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July 27, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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July 10, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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.
See the entire change log of [...]
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July 6, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
iPoll the lite weight polling application for the iPhone or other mobile browsers released.
Login / Password protected surveys feature released
Javascript embeddable iPolls released (but so far undocumented)
API improvements. You can now access survey response data through the API. Read more on the API tutorial page.
See the entire change [...]
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June 1, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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May 17, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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May 8, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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May 1, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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. [...]
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April 18, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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.
See the entire change log of survey software improvements.
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April 7, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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.
See the entire [...]
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April 5, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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April 1, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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March 16, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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March 1, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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February 15, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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.
See the entire change log of survey software improvements.
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February 9, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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.
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February 8, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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. [...]
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February 7, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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 [...]
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February 6, 2007
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Brittany Heidtke
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.