General settings |

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The general settings allows us to setup and customize our form features.
- Title is used mainly as logical information to make the difference between one or the other of our surveys. Its not used or shown on the survey control seen by the survey respondents.
- Deployment page title is the title that will be displayed in the browser window title.
- Page Header Image can be used to display an image on top of the page that displays the survey.
- Permanent redirection URL can be used once a form has been closed or deleted to redirect all users trying to access the form to a specific URL.
- Survey Language forces a survey to run under a specific language culture which is not depended from the current server configured culture.
- Style Template lets us choose between different graphical styles we have created using the WYSIWYG Style Editor . The selected style will be applied to all elements in the survey from the security add ins interfaces, the survey control and completion message or public reports.
- Open Date is the date at which our survey will accept new entries. No entries will be accepted before that date, leave blank if our survey has no time limit to take it.
- Close Date is the date at which our survey will close and not accept entries anymore. No entries will be accepted after that date, leave blank if our survey has no deadline.
- Buttons Row Display let us choose the position of the survey buttons (e.g.: submit, next page etc..). We can either show them on the footer, the header or both on the survey.
- Rich client / Ajax support enables rich web 2.0 survey features like no page refresh, watermarks, entry masks. This feature should be turned off for surveys which require full accessibility level compliance.
- Footer Progress Display allows us to set what will be shown in the survey control footer. We can either choose to show nothing or to show specific information on the current progress by selecting page numbers, text or graphical percentage progress.
- Disable Question Numbers if we don't want to show the current question number on the left of each question in the survey control.
- Score can be enabled in order to let us specify a score for each answers and then see the scores for each respondent. If we want to know more about scoring make sure to read our Score Introduction.
- Allow Respondents To Download Their Answers using this feature we can allow the user to download all answers he has entered during the survey as word document when he finishes and submits the survey.
- Show Summary Of Respondent's Answers allow us to set the survey to show to the respondent a complete summary of his answers before he does the final submit. If navigation is activated he will be able to navigate back to change his answers, if its not activated a button allowing him to come back to page 1 and change his is made available.
- Force https secure connection forces a survey to run under the secure HTTPs protocol. Responsents will be automatically redirected to the equivalent secure deployment survey link.
- Anonymous Respondents let us disable the logging of respondents IP addresses.
The IP Protection Addin will stop working correctly after activating this function as the same "dummy" IP will be assigned to respondents.
- Clear Branched / Skipped Pages Answers will clear all respondent answers on pages that have been already displayed once but skipped by the respondent at a later stage by navigating back and forth.
- Always Display Submit Button forces the display of the submit button.
- Previous / Next Page Navigation we can allow the user to navigate back and forth in the survey's pages while he is taking it. By default the user can only move forward in the survey and cannot come back to change his answers.
- Display Next Page Button forces the display of the next page button.
- Display Previous Page Button forces the display of the previous page button.
- Page Navigation Type displays all the pages and respondent choose which pages he wants to display.
- Resume Of Progress we can allow the user to save and resume his progress while taking our survey.
We can choose to save the unique code provided by Key Provider in the destination storage of the key provider. By default the FeedbackServer key provider's destination storage is a cookie, so when the respondent comes back he will not need to enter any code manually. The drawback of this approach is that he will need to resume the survey on the same computer when he saved the progress on.
We an also set the resume to manually, in this case a the unique code will be provided as a text message on screen and he will be able to resume at any time and from anywhere his progress by clicking the resume progress button on our survey.
- Allow User To Change His Answers Once a user has finished the survey and has reached the completion message, the user cannot change his answers.
However we can set FeedbackServer to allow the user to change his answers, in this case a unique code (UID) generated by the Key Provider will be shown with the completion message when the user has finished the survey. He can then log back at any time, enter his unique code and change his previous answers.
We can also choose not to show the unique code, this will allow us to customize and embed the code in the Completion Message using the ::keycode:: tag.
- Display Save Progress Button forces the display of the save respondent progress button.
- Display Resume Progress Button forces the display of the resume respondent progress button.
- Display Restore Button forces the display of the restore answers button.
- Survey Description let us write some descriptive text of what our survey is about. This text will be show at the survey home page.
- Metatdata let us fill the form metadata attributes that we have setup using the metadata editor