Thursday, July 22, 2004

NSurvey 1.0 (Free .net web based survey software solution)

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"NSurvey is a free web based survey and form engine toolkit for Microsoft's .net. Written in pure managed C#, NSurvey aims anyone who needs to collect quickly valuable information from customers, visitors or employees.

Why continue to spend thousands of $$ on expensive and closed survey packages ?!
Thanks to the flexibility of the ASP.net platform and to the NSurvey form engine, starting a survey has never been that cheap and easy!

NSurvey is a constantly evolving software, it's easy to add new types of questions or answers through its plugin based architecture. At this time NSurvey supports following key features :

User friendly web based administration interface.
Unlimited paging support
Client (javascript) & server side field validity checks (Numeric, dates etc...)
Single or matrix question layouts
Flexible form engine allowing you to create almost any form
XML answer "feeder" (eg: countries, us states ...)
Specify a maximum / minimum answers required for each question
Email invitations
Full multi-language support
Restrict survey entry on email code
Private or public reports
Conditional question branching logic
Reports filtering through custom rules
Detailed individual vote reports
Opening / closing date
Survey component localization in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Cookie, IP security to prevent double submissions
Protect and hide your results with a password or a "thank you" message
Custom redirection URL for your results page to hide survey's results
Customizable design
Open API
Last but not least ... It's free! "

Very cool... I think I'm going to recommend this for an internal customer support survey I just saw in my email (which is currently being handled via an emailed Word doc... ick)

Update: Well it's installed and an abbreviated version of the internal survey is now online.

Note to Self #1: Don't cut and paste from Word tables into the Question RTF box. Or done, go to the HTML tab and nuke all the extra crap (span's, font instructions, etc). Having those there seemed to gack the excel/CSV feature.

Note to Self #2: When installing, give the SQL account used SA rights (for just during the install) or do a manual database install

Note to Self #3: When installing to remote SQL Server, remember to edit the database connection string in the web.config

(via TheServerSide.Net)


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've been looking for the NSurvey source code (It was released under the GNU GPL before it was 'commercialized' to its current form).

Would you give me a line if you have any source code versions of NSurvey? Contact me at smacpher@gmail.com, and feel free to just send it on over. Thanks!

Shaun