This has been fixed with the latest version on the GitHub repo https://github.com/fubralimited/WP-Survey-And-Quiz-Tool/zipball/master.
You can either download it from there or wait until the official version is released later today.
It looks like this change allows non-admins to have access to the surveys and responses via their dashboards; this seems to include not only reviewing the responses but also deleting/changing the surveys, etc., which is not desirable in our situation. Is there a way that, for a given survey, all visitors to the site can go to a page that shows the aggregate results the way they are displayed on the admin ‘totals’ page? We’d like all of our users to be able to see all of the survey results gathered and also comment on them. Something like a shortcode like [wpsqt_survey_totals name=”SurveyName”] or a similar construction that can be placed on its own page would work well. Thanks
This update allowed you to select the role of users that can manage the WPSQT plugin. So this will obviously allow them to delete etc.
From your post it looks like you just want to be able to display the results of a survey on a page. I will add this in shortly.
JohnTMurphy, you can now display results of a survey on a page with the shortcode [wpsqt_survey_results name="survey name"].
This has been added with the latest version on the GitHub repo https://github.com/fubralimited/WP-Survey-And-Quiz-Tool/zipball/master.
You can either download it from there or wait until the official version is released later today.
Ollie- Thanks for this. I just tested it. The concept is correct: the shortcode allows a page to be displayed with survey results, which is what I need. However, the results are not actually displayed: I see the survey questions and the Google chart for the numeric results, but the free text responses are not displayed. For free text responses, all I see is the header “All responses for this question.” The responses do appear in the ‘admin’ version of the totals page, but not in the new one. Can these be added? Thanks!
I will remove the heading “All responses for….” and not show free text questions. If you think about it, say 500 people took your survey, you’re going to have 500 different answers for the free text question. If you display this on a page, it’s going to be huge. It’s not going to be quantitative data so you can’t handle it like you would with a multiple choice question (where each answer is assigned a quantitative value) so we can create pie charts etc.
Ollie- Thanks for getting back to me. Our user situation is much more controlled than you assume; the survey is in a restricted part of our site, so we expect far fewer than 500 responses (perhaps a couple of dozen, but probably fewer). Moreover, our administrative situation is unusual as well: we host the survey, but the people who are wrote and are interested in the survey results are not site admins, and hence must have a way to get at all of the responses, including the free text ones. I think it would work well for us if all of the free text answers were displayed on the ‘totals’ version of the responses page. However, your argument is correct that the ‘totals’ page with all answers displayed is unwieldy. I know that it is possible to create a shortcode that displays any particular user’s responses; I also know that in the admin part of the site it is possible to get a list of the responses and allow inspection of any respondent’s survey. Could something like this be pushed to a normal (non-admin) page? Ideally this would (optionally?) strip identifying information like IP address; the user would visit a page generated by a shortcode, see a list like “Respondent 1”, “Respondent 2”, etc., and could click on each and see the responses. (An alternative is to generate a page with all the questions listed, and allow the user to click on a question and see all of the responses to that question. This page doesn’t need to list the respondents individually, but it should still indicate the count of respondents (or responses to each question?), so that a visitor can know whether there are more responses than there were at their last visit.) The totals page, with numerical data aggregated as it is now, is also useful and should still be available (though in our particular situation, most of our current survey is free text). Thanks!
Okay, I understand your scenario now and what you want does make sense. I understand what you want and seeing as it is as shortcode I don’t mind implementing it (as pretty much every other user can ignore this and never have to use it). I’ll get to work on it shortly and revamp the previous shortcode I provided for you.
Ollie- Thanks again for this- it will be a great help. I see that there is a new update to the WPSQT, which I’ve installed, but I don’t see anything related to these features, so I assume these are still in progress (unless I’ve missed the changes- please let me know if I should be looking for something that I’m not seeing). Thanks! John
Nope, you’re right, I haven’t implemented these fixes yet. Be assured it’s on my list of fixes so it will not be forgotten. Unfortunately it’s quite a big thing compared to the other (possibly more important) bug fixes I have also got to fix. It will be done though; just bare with for a few more days.
Ollie- I see that another update to the WPSQT has been posted, but I assume this is one of the other fixes you mentioned that you’ve been working on, and not the one from this forum thread, right? As before, just let me know if I’ve missed something. Thanks! John
Ollie- Just a quick ping to ask if this fix is still pending? I hope so; it will be very helpful and much appreciated. Thanks!
Hi Ollie
I have installed wp-survey-and-quiz-tool plugin.I have added survey credientails in admin panel. But i dont know how to display survey details in front page.
Thanks
