Using SurveyToGo for kiosk-based surveys

November 19, 2009 oferiko Leave a comment

SurveyToGo can be used on kiosk computers to run kiosk surveys. In this mode, the survey is running in full screen, has many font, color and logo options. The end result is a survey that can be filled out by the respondents themselves (self administered) without the need for a surveyor to be involved.

Kiosk computers with SurveyToGo can be placed at places such as restaurants, fast food chains, bank branches and other places which host a large number of visitors throughout the day. Satisfaction surveys can be then placed on the kiosk computers running SurveyToGo for easy collection of data.

The rest of this article is dedicated to show you how to technically configure SurveyToGo to work in kiosk mode and how to manipulate the wide range of options available to you for running through kiosk-mode surveys.

The new Kiosk mode

Dooblo’s SurveyToGo (www.dooblo.net)  enables you to edit a wide variety of properties in your survey that affect the PC Surveyor application’s running mode for that survey.
To open the PC Properties screen, choose one of the following options:

1. Open the “PC Preview” option at the right bottom of the screen, and click on “Edit PC Properties”.


2. Click on “Survey” > “Edit PC Props…”.

The “Edit pc properties” contains three different tabs: General, Colors, and Kiosk.

1. Kiosk
SurveyToGo enables you to use the PC window in a Kiosk mode.
The kiosk mode is a new feautre that was added at the latest version of SurveyToGo. you can download SurveyToGo through www.dooblo.net
To activate the kiosk mode, just follow these steps:
1. Open the “Edit PC Properties” option.
2. Click on the “Kiosk” tab.
3. Check the “take Full Screen” box.

At the Kiosk tab you may also find the following options:
1.1 Kiosk Settings
• Hide Clock: check this box to hide the clock which is displayed on the right top corner of the PC Surveyor.
• Hide Buttons: Check this box to hide the survey buttons (Stop, Save, Attach, Note etc.).
• Hide Control Box: Check this box to hide the control box (Close, minimize, full screen).
• Hide Status Panel: Currently not implemented.
• Take Full Screen: Check this box to activate the kiosk mode and view your survey in a full screen mode.
• Exit password: Set a password to exit the full screen kiosk mode. The default password is “Exit now!”.

1.2 Kiosk Logos
• Right/Left Logo: You can add your logo and/or your customer logo. The left logo is set by default to be SurveyToGo. In order to change it into a different logo, please contact us at support@dooblo.net.
• Set Kiosk Defaults: Click on this button to set the default Kiosk settings (auto check for all the Kiosk settings boxes).

2. General

2.1 Question Layout
• Flow Layout: The default question layout.
• Table Layout: Enables you to display your questions in a table mode.
Checking this box enables you to set the following options:
• Number Of Columns: Number of columns to be displayed in each page.
• Suggest Column Size: Check this box in order that SurveyToGo will suggest you the optimal size per each displayed column.
• Column Size (pixels): Enables you to set the size of each column.
• Question layout- You may choose to display your questions vertically or horizontally. (This option works only if you display more than one question in a page).



2.2 Client window
• PC Window Is Fixed Size: Disables the option to resize the pc window.
• PC Window Is Maximized: View your survey in a full screen mode.
Note: Do not check “hide control box” at the “Kiosk” tab, in order to be able to minimize or change your pc window screen size.
• Pc Window Width/Height: Manually decide the width and height of the pc window screen.
• Background color: Choose the background color of the pc window.

2.3 Fonts
SurveyToGo enables you the option to change the font settings of all of your questions, answers or topics at once, by checking the relevant boxes. You can change the font style, font size, effects, sample and script.

• Font Size: Checking this box will change the font size of all of your survey (questions, answers, topics etc.), and will uncheck all the other font options.

3. Colors
The color tab enables you to change a wide variety of colors at the PC Window, such as header color, keyboard color, navigation buttons and question colors.

For more details about SurveyToGo please visit us at http://www.dooblo.net

Categories: Tips & Tricks

Monthly Tip- How to translate your survey

October 13, 2009 alond Leave a comment

Suppose you are running a survey simultaneously in France, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany. The surveys are exactly the same for statistical reason however the language should be customized to the specific country. Instead of creating 3 different surveys, SurveyToGo now supports running the same survey with multiple languages. You can add a new language, translate the question and answer texts to the new language and then have the survey switch between languages in the field!
You can export the entire survey texts to Excel, have it translated and then import the texts back to the designer (see option 1), or either make in line changing of survey texts (see option 2).

Option 1:
Export the entire survey texts to excel, have it translated and then import the texts back to the designer:

Export from the designer

Translte your survey using excel

Option 2: In line changing of survey texts:

Change the language

Translate the question

The original language

And this is how it will look on the device:

Switching between languages

For more details about SurveyToGo please visit us at http://www.dooblo.net

Categories: Tips & Tricks

New & improved laptop/PC survey client

September 13, 2009 oferiko 1 comment

In the latest version of SurveyToGo, you will be able to find a complete user interface revamp of the PC Surveyor.

The new design of the "SurveyToGo Login"

What does it include?

  • Full Control over the color theme:
    Now, you are able to design the colors of your PC Surveyor, including:

    • “Navigation control”
    • Questions/answers text
    • Header color, which also support gradient colors

design the colors of your PC Surveyor

Ability to add logos to the header pane:
You can add your company’s logo to the right and left side of the header pane. Please read below about removing the SurveyToGo logo (unbranding option)

add your logo, add images as answers & change the color of the navigation controls

  • Add answer images:
    You can now configure a multichoice or a multiselect question to have images in addition to or in place of the answer text. You can control the layout of the image and the wrapping modes
  • Unbranding option:
    You can have the SurveyToGo logo exchanged with one of your own to strengthen your brand awareness. Enabling this option requires a onetime “unbranding fee” for your organization and will affect all your PC and PDA clients. For more information,  Contact us at support@dooblo.net
  • Improved Add Attachments screen:
    The “Add Attachments” screen has been improved to make adding and viewing added attachments much easier.

add an attachment to your interview

  • Kiosk mode support
    The brand new “kiosk mode” of the PC Surveyor enables you to run a survey on kiosk computers and have that survey run in full screen mode with special features that were specifically designed for kiosk such as a virtual keyboard for touch-screen kiosk computers etc. The new kiosk mode is an ideal solution for Self-administered surveys at locations such as hotels, banks & restaurants. Contact our team of experienced consultants for details about our new kiosk mode.

the new Kiosk mode

for more details about SurveyToGo please visit us at http://www.dooblo.net

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