QuestionPro Blog

Here are a few new and exciting features we’ve added to IdeaScale and QuestionPro in the past week:

• Community Moderation: in keeping with the theme of leveraging your crowd, we’ve further built out the “flag as inappropriate” and “flag as duplicate” functionality. 
• Section 508 Compliance: we’ve been continuously testing and fixing our code so IdeaScale portals are section 508 compliant. Lot of work here – but very important.
• Comments from dynamic text boxes are now included in online open ended text reports

More info:

• Community Moderation: http://www.ideascale.com/help/551-window.html
• Compliance Features: http://questionpro.com/compliance
• Online Open Ended Text Report: http://www.questionpro.com//help/218.html

Here are the latest fixes for both QuestionPro and IdeaScale:

• IdeaScale: tightened up security on new user signup (user can’t do ANYTHING untill email verified)
• QuestionPro: stability improvements related to dynamic text boxes
• IdeaScale: improvements to revision history
• IdeaScale: improvements to community moderation
• IdeaScale: improvements to section 508 compliance
• IdeaScale: Idea number matches on other screens and in Excel output, etc.
• IdeaScale: fixed caching issue with numbers on IS portals
• QuestionPro: stability improvements to survey thank you page

More info:

• Community Moderation: http://www.questionpro.com/help/551-window.html

Here are the latest enhancements and bug fixes as of 3/27:

• IdeaScale: fixed problems with CSS customization window on custom themes
• QuestionPro: Arabic and Hebrew language properly displays in invitation (displays right to left)
• QuestionPro: multiple column CSS issue fixed
• IdeaScale/MicroPoll/QuestionPro: add more servers to application cluster – increasing overall speed and reliability
• IdeaScale: security improvements to idea submission to further prevent hacking

Here are the latest bug fixes and enhancements as of 3/20:

• IdeaScale email gateway stability improvements
• QuestionPro FTP upload stability improvements
• IdeaScale idea export includes a hyperlink back to the idea
• Both custom variable formats now work in email invite: $(1) or $(custom1)

More info:

• IdeaScale hyperlink idea: http://questionpro.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/9782-393
• QuestionPro FTP upload:
  http://www.questionpro.com/help/390-window.html
• IdeaScale email gateway: http://www.questionpro.com/help/547-window.html
• Custom Variables:
  http://www.questionpro.com/help/131-window.html

QuestionPro now includes the ability to allow the respondent to go back in the survey. This can be helpful when you’re not concerned with respondents changing their answers and are looking to ensure accuracy. To enable this feature, click on “Edit Survey”, “Display Options” and click the check box for “Enable Back Button”.

More Info:

• Enable Back Button On Your Survey: http://www.questionpro.com/help/410-window.html
  
• Edit Navigation Buttons: http://www.questionpro.com/help/65-window.html

Here are the latest bug fixes for QuestionPro and IdeaScale:

• QuestionPro – custom variables are updated in dynamic comment boxes properly
• QuestionPro – multiple reports can be scheduled to run at the same time
• QuestionPro – report scheduler stability improvements

Marching along with our cloud connector strategy, today we integrated QuestionPro with Facebook Connect.

What is Facebook Connect?
Facebook Connect is a platform (developed by Facebook) to allow external sites like blogs, forums etc. to use Facebook’s strong userbase for authentication. What is means is that, if you have a Facebook account, you can simply use that account (email/password) to login to other sites.

How does that help with Surveys?
If you are running a survey directed at your Facebook users, you can enable Facebook Connect on your survey for authentication. This will give you a couple of quick hits:

1. You know that all users who are taking the survey are legitimate Facebook users
2. You’ll be able to detect duplicate responses from the same FB user easily

How do I enable Facebook Connect on my Survey?
See screenshot below

Whats Next?
This is our first step in integrating social networks into surveys and data collection. Our roadmap includes the following:

1. Allow facebook users to invite other FB users (friends) to take the survey – Viral Expansion Loop.
2. Put a story on the user’s Newsfeed that they took the survey — allows others to know about the survey.
3. Allow results to be shared/selectively with your social cloud.

We’ll be rolling out these features as add-ons to the Facebook Connector for QuestionPro.

More info:

• Enable Facebook Connect Authentication: http://www.questionpro.com/help/546-window.html
  

Here are the latest bug fixes/features as of 3/6/2009:

• IdeaScale: graduated idea includes hyperlink back to original idea
• IdeaScale: username listing in comments is updated faster
• IdeaScale: portals now support iPhone web browsers
• QuestionPro: SPSS download stability improvements
• QuestionPro: fixed problem with row validation on some matrix questions

More info:

• SPSS Export:
  http://questionpro.com/help/440-window.html
• Matrix Style Question Type:
  http://questionpro.com/help/394-window.html
  
• IdeaScale iPhone Support: http://questionpro.com/help/373-window.html

The latest bug fixes and small feature enhancements for 2/27/2009:

• IdeaScale – Twitter integration links directly to (thanks @iwmw)
• IdeaScale – idea search improvement (idea numbers indexed better)
• IdeaScale – tiny urls in twitter posts