Prior to release 1.91 it was not possible to record timestamps for questions within LimeSurvey, so if you have an older installation, this article is for you!

One thing that can be very useful when analysing results from a survey is timing data. How long did users look at this question? Are users pausing for a long time on this page? Knowing this can be very helpful in determining the validity of your data, and in refining surveys to ensure people stay focussed and interested.

LimeSurvey allows you, in general survey setups, to record timings of a survey, and with this you can tell when a person starts a survey, and when they finish. But it doesn't - yet - allow you to record the times spent viewing individual pages.

This is a solution that allows you to record a timestamp when each page loads. The timestamp can then be used to work out how long it took someone to go from one page to the next.


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The Slider layout for a question is one of the nicer features of LimeSurvey, but as a question type it is often ignored or forgotten because it is really an advanced setting of what seems a completely different question type - the multiple numerical question type.

The slider is a variation of the multiple numerical question type because it stores a numeric result. The sliding feature is really just an overlay to give a visual presentation.

This article is to provide a quick overview of setting up a basic slider, and then some more advanced topics - so you can, for example, change the slider background, colour and size.

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There is no inbuilt way to use conditions to randomly hide or show questions, so here's a workaround that will do the trick.

In summary, you create a hidden question that randomly generates a number. You then hide or display later questions based on the randomly generated number.

If you have 4 questions you'd like to randomly cycle through, then the first question would generate a random number between 1 and 4. If you have 3, then 1 and 3, and so on.
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