My Surveys: Where It All Begins

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My Surveys is your main page that appears right away after you log into your account. This is your HQ at CreateSurvey where you do all kinds of things: create, manage, and test your surveys, monitor results and statistics, control your subscription status, and access all other functions that are available to you. The page consists of several sections:

Account:

Your subscription level and expiration period are shown here. Click Extend to extend your subscription, upgrade to Pro, or view more details on subscription and service level.

Survey List:

This box contains a drop-down list giving access to all surveys created under your account. As you select a survey from the list, the page instantly refreshes (you may also force the page refresh by clicking Go! .

Survey status:

Next follows a box showing brief information on the survey status (active or inactive), total number of responses, and the week activity diagram showing responses for the last 7 days and the current day.

Survey Design:

The survey design box is where you control your survey contents, manage elements and options, etc. It contains the following options:

Edit Questionnaire: Edit contents, elements, and layout of your survey.
View/Test: View or test the survey in the real working mode. A new browser window will open containing the survey. This option allows the author/editor to test the survey from a common visitor's viewpoint. Please note that if you submit a response, it is stored in the database. (However, you may delete it if you wish.)
Advanced Options: Access the survey's options and preferences.

Send Survey:

This box contains publishing options and methods, as follows:

Send E-mail Invitation: Send an e-mail invitation to your respondents. Usually this is the most common way to invite people to take part in the survey.
E-mail Invitation: View, edit, and delete existing maillists.
Add Survey to Website: Get the HTML code to embed the survey into a web page of your own.
Link to the Survey: This is the very web address (URL) that leads to the unique page containing the survey. You may put it on your web site, send in e-mail messages, or give out in any other way. Once a respondent receives it, he or she may visit and take the survey.

View Results:

Means for monitoring survey results are gathered here in this box:

Summary: Overall summary results of the survey are shown here.
List of Responses: There are per-participant results with information on each individual response.
New Custom Report: Click to create a new custom report. For more details on custom reports see Custom Reports.
Edit Custom Reports: Click to edit existing custom reports.
Download Results: Click on one of the Layout links to download results for offline viewing.
Quick view: Choose a custom report from the drop-down list (if available) and click on the View button to view the survey's results through this custom report.

Advanced:

The following options are grouped in this box:

Copy Survey: After clicking on this link a copy of the survey will be created. Note that results are not copied, only the survey itself.
Delete Results: Delete all the survey results (responses).
Delete Survey: This allows to delete both the survey and its responses. Use with caution!

See also:
Custom Services

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