New Features

Export: Filters

You can now choose filters and channels when exporting your survey results. Filtering makes it easier to analyze large surveys in more detail.

Export: Internationalization

We fixed a bug with the Export feature that made it hard to read international characters. We love our customers from all over the world, and we’ll keep supporting great features for internationalization.

Matrix Likert/Rating Questions: Custom Values

You can now change the scale of Matrix Likert/Rating questions. You can invert the scale from 1-2-3 to 3-2-1, or enter custom values.

Multiple Choice Questions: Answer Limit

Previously, there was no way to limit the number of answered options in multiple-choice questions. Based on your feedback, we’ve updated Survs so you can set a minimum and maximum number of answers. This is helpful when limiting answers will make your data more meaningful.

Open Text Questions: Format Validation

Want to get better answers from open text questions? Now you can specify if the answer should be formatted as a number, email address, or date. By collecting information in a specific format, you’ll get better data and better results.

Links

You can now include links in your surveys with Markdown. We had a lot of requests for this, so we worked it in! Here’s a brief guide we added to the Edit Survey page.

Use a set of parentheses immediately after the link description’s closing square bracket. Inside the parentheses, paste the URL where you want the link to go.

Example 1: This is [an example](http://example.com/) inline link.

Example 2: [This link](http://example.net/) goes to a different link.

A Look Ahead

Along with these new features, we’re really excited about the year ahead. We’ll tell you all about a big update we’re working on soon, so stay tuned!

From now on you can:

• Automatically include your respondents’ first and last name, as well as the content of the notes field in your emails.
• Preview the messages before sending them, in order to be able to correct eventual mistakes before sending the emails out to your recipients.

What do you think about these changes? We’re counting on your feedback to continually improve your favorite survey tool :-).

• Event Planning Survey
• Fundraising Survey
• Course Evaluation Survey
• Service Pricing Survey
• Product Pricing Survey

Stay tuned, as we’ll add these surveys in other languages in the next weeks. And don’t forget that you can also share your survey templates with the rest of Survs users!

Some time ago we were surprised by an invitation from the Google Apps™ team to be one of 50 Google Apps Marketplace™ launch companies. We have spent the last months working hard and in close cooperation with Google, in order guarantee the integration and it is with great joy, so it is with great joy that we today announce the official launch.

Google Apps Marketplace makes it easy to discover, purchase and deploy integrated business applications and related professional services.

Survs is now integrated with Google Apps, allowing not only the access to the application using Google Apps Single Sign-On, but also to export survey results into a Google Spreadsheet. After installing Survs on your Google Apps account, you can access it using the same links you use to navigate the Google Apps suite.

If you’re a Google Apps user and want to integrate Survs on your domain, just follow these instructions.

Google, Google Apps Marketplace, Google Apps, Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Video are trademarks of Google Inc.

We’re sponsoring the User Experience Lisbon, taking place in Lisbon between the 12th and 14th of May, and would love to meet some of our users there. Just use the code SURVS2010 when signing up for the conference and you’re done!

See you all in Lisbon :-).

For starters, they have translated Survs’s templates to five new languages: Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Italian. myGengo also provided us with two new language templates: Russian and Japanese.

Just log in to your account, click the New Survey tab and pick the language of your choice :-).

What does this mean? From now on, you can start building your surveys from one template without having to import it first.

The templates are available in English, German, French and Portuguese, but we’ll soon publish translations to other languages (so all our users can start from a template in their own language).

Please let us know what you think about the templates and which ones you would like to see added to the set.

• Customer Satisfaction Survey (Service)
• Customer Satisfaction Survey (Product)
• Event Evaluation Survey
• Employee Satisfaction Survey
• Web application survey

These templates will soon be included into the Create survey page. Meanwhile, you can import them to your accounts. Just click the above links and choose the account you want to import the templates to. It’s as easy as that.

If you want, feel free to translate the templates to your language and share them with other users. Survs is all about building things together and sharing knowledge :-).

Here is an example:

http://www.survs.com/template/96OVM5WF

But it gets even better, you can drop the www and use only:

http://survs.com/template/96OVM5WF

Now it’s much easier to copy and paste them to wherever you want :-).

Even if you are downgraded to the Free plan, you’ll still have access to all your survey responses and you can upgrade your account at any time. There are no strings attached!

A special thanks to our beta users for helping us build Survs. It wouldn’t be possible without you :-).