Publishing a Survey | ||
Once a survey has been created, the next logical step is to place that survey into a client web page where visitors to the site may access it and provide you with the data you seek. You may publish a survey to a web page through the Insert Survey screen. This screen is accessible by clicking on the insert action button (thumb tack icon) next to a survey on the Survey Listscreen.
eSurvey allows you to publish surveys to a web page using two different methods. The Insert Survey screen is broken up into two different sections -- one for each of these publishing methods. The bottom most section is labeled Survey JavaScript Code. This section contains a single text field which is read only and contains the line of HTML code necessary to place the survey onto a web page. Using the same method that you would typically edit a web page, you can manually copy and past this line of HTML into your web page. If however, you have FTP access to your website's files, you could use a Publish Point to aid you in making the survey available to the public. For more information on setting up a Publish Point, see the help topic Adding a Publish Point. If a publish point exists, you can use the top most section of the screen labeled Current File. This section is composed of a large text area, with the three buttons above it labeled ' ', ' ', ' '. Users must first open the web page file they wish to insert a survey into by clicking the ' ' button. This will cause The Publish Point Browser window to appear. Using the Publish Point Browser, users can automatically connect via FTP to their web site, navigate to find the desired file, and click on it to display the contents of the file in the large text area of the Insert Survey screen. Once a file has been loaded, the current file (and its path) will be displayed in the header of the section. Once the desired file has been loaded, users can place the text cursor in the area of the file where they wish the survey to reside. By clicking the ' ' button, the single line of HTML that represents the survey will be placed at the cursor. Users may then save the changes by clicking on the ' ' button at the bottom of the screen. If at any time the user feels they may have made changes that they wish to discard, they may click the ' ' button which will automatically reload the last saved version of the file. Both the ' ' and ' ' buttons will not function and will generate warnings if a file has not been loaded from a publish point. Currently, eSurvey can only support one survey per web page. If there are more than one surveys inserted into a web page, user's will be alerted with an error message when trying to save. Related Topics:
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