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This should be built into Joomla, it's simply awesome, and if your not using it, your losing valuable time working in your content. Even for the simplest of articles, this saves you countless hours. It has for me.

Awesome, Awesome job, thank you so much for this extension.

I am somewhat disappointed in this addon.

It looks straight forward, but really is not.

Before you can even create your first survey, there are many routines to go thru before having to make one. I like the ability to create the sections of the survey, so this wasn't the problem I ran into with this addon.

My gripes really go to the ease of use factor, and the results and how they are output.

I think that if I use a radio button I shouldn't see output results of 0, 1, 2 etc.. I should see the actual answer of what 0, 1, or 2 are. How do I know what answer the component has assigned to 0 or 1 or 2, there is nothing that shows me this. I tried this every which way, but the end result was that each part of the answer produces a different number even, so the end result is I really don't know what actual answers I am getting from the survey.

Boolean should not be a pull down window for yes/no... It should really be a checkbox or radio display and I should have a choice, not a required select option.

Radio & checkboxes should not be an integer, if you want to produce a result with an answer such as what you'd get with a text box.

Results layout looks sloppy when viewed after filling out survey.

Email should produce answers instead of 0, 1, 2 type results

I should have more control over text options.. I didn't like for instance seeing (Available to 'Guest' user types only.) I would prefer they just didn't see that, and it should be an option for me to turn off.

If I add an s to the end of my survey title, 2 s's appear at the end of the title.. in other words John's Surveys becomes John's Surveyss (on menu page) only.

When html source code is used in title descriptions, the email produces those as if the email is sent in text only format. I'd prefer html email for instance so I don't see source code.

The manual is good and really takes the time to run you thru how to get started, but it needs to cover more about field options and there limits. The fact that your limited to integrer with radio and checkbox fields is not cool and I never found that to be mentioned in the pdf file.

As well, the checkbox needs to have ability to show more than 1 checkbox. When I tried this option, I was only given 1 checkbox for the 4 options in the field. It's as if the checkbox is meant only for a terms of use or acceptance question, and I wasn't thrilled with that either.

Ability to sort questions in question view would be nice as well, since the sample component offers many samples, I'd love for my new questions to automatically appear at the top so I don't have to scroll to bottom of page to edit them.

This survey addon is good if all your looking for is answers to text questions, it produces results just fine. It installs with no errors in a fully loaded joomla (many extensions in other words) and I had no problems with it other than the ones mentioned above.

This addon has huge potential, I hope to see it come out better in future upgrades.

The free version seems to have problems with various templates. I use a shape5.com template on my site and ran into a problem with it not seeing the tabbed php file in my index.php, So I installed this on a fresh Joomla site, default template, no other addons or modules installed.

The first error occurred with adding it to the menu, and just clicking the survey to view it. While I first placed this on my live site, I ran into a common error mentioned in there forum for not finding a certain .php file. In my case I had an error for the tab.php file in my templates folder, but the file is clearly there and working on all other parts of my site since it's referred to in the index.php of my template. So this seemed odd to me that I'd run into this error.

I uploaded a test site, put the free version on a default Joomla template and everything was fine. I filled out survey, and when it went to the results, I ended up with a database mysql error mentioning that it wasn't seeing the table with the name, company and email in the tables for the results.

This is because the table simply wasn't in the database for it to see the results. I checked my database for the table it mentions and it wasn't there.

Granted, I tried this right out of the box, I had the menu setup to see the Example survey, and had never run thru the questions themselves. My whole reason for even trying the free version was to see how it handled results. I wanted to see the email, and because you don't get to see these things with the demo version on there site you have no idea how it outputs the results.

I don't know if the encoded part of the file is the reason for my initial error or not, but in terms of results, if someone tries the free version first, it should at the very least install that example table in the database so they can run thru a survey first to see how it all works. Newbies (I don't consider myself new, but I'm not familiar with creating tables in databases either), don't know how to create tables in database, so this is something that should come with the standard free version.

While I didn't register in there forum, I made a valid and honest effort to search out my problems. The first error was mention in there forum many times, but depending on the template used, the php error is different for the file it is looking at.

Where as I couldn't find the database error whatsoever in the forum and while I could have registered, I didn't really have the time. I needed to get the survey up and working, and because I couldn't find any real errors on commercial version I took a chance and purchased it.

What a totally different experience the commercial version offers.

(Note: if you try free version first, be sure you delete any database tables that the component leaves behind or you will still experience problems, once I tried the component out of the box, all errors were gone)

This is an exceptional component. I purchased the other survey addon, but ran into problems with the results page and email. Both survey addons are completely customizable for front end, but the results and email for other addon are not customizable.

This works right out of the box the way it should. I had no problems with setting up a survey, creating the category, then the questions, I love it has a no nonsense approach to it, in that you create your question, choose the data type, add the options, even creating the field name for the question and whether it appears horizontally or vertically. Simply put I had my survey put together within the hour. I customized the layout, and tested it. Everything went as I thought it should have gone.

I would like to see the statistics page have a customizable layout...

Perhaps a break line between the questions so in templates it doesn't look all clumped together.

The ability to say which stats I want viewed on the live site over which ones should be there.

Stats page should not need all the same parameters when it's created in the menu, it should allow for us to say which questions we don't want to see shown and which we do.

Ability for mandatory fields to show on the survey page itself. There is no mention that a question is a required field so user doesn't know which questions they still need to fill in if they get the error when they click next about the "Some values are not acceptable. Please retry window" Having this be more specific would be nice.

For newbies, you might try in the css file to use a line above each css function with something like /*what part of site I need to be changed for*/ such as /* colors for question cell/table here */ so that users can easily change the colors without trying to figure out what they are changing on there own.

Results email to have date/time option for survey being filled out.

Stats page doesn't produce results for textarea, instead you see a line that says: Question type=Textarea

Overall, I am pleased with this component and find it well worth it's price tag.

Thank you!!

the reason it only gets a 4 is because of the idea of hidden advertising. It saddens me that the only extension I could get to work and sets up with no problems has some sort of hidden advertising in it. I'll keep it for now, but will hope the other Geocity extension will soon work properly so I won't have to worry about hidden advertising on my site. I'd rather give a donation than to have this sort of stuff in my site.