How do I use the General tab in Survey?

In this help, we'll discuss how to use the General tab to:

• Name your study
• Set the language of your study
• Choose whether and how the respondents have to identify themselves
• Protect your study with a password
• Set the ending conditions for the study

Name your study 

• Respondents don't see the study name displayed anywhere
• Use a name that helps you identify the study on the dashboard

Set the language of your study 

• Language determines the language of the labels and headings in the study
• Currently, only English is supported. More languages coming soon.

Choose whether and how the respondents have to identify themselves 

Select one of the following respondent identification options:

• Anonymous - The respondents don't have to identify themselves (default option)
• Email address - Demand that they provide their email before they begin
• Other - Ask for another identifier of your choice (e.g. name, screen name, internal company ID)

Unless the study is left anonymous, the respondent won't be allowed to go forward until they identify themselves.

The respondent's identification will be displayed next to their study results.

If you selected Other identifiers, by enabling Allow duplicate identifiers, you can allow multiple respondents to use the same identifier (e.g. to identify members from the same group).

By default, your study won’t store the IP addresses of respondents. You can enable them with the Store respondent IP address option.

Protect your study with a password 

• No password - the study is open to anybody who has a link to it
• Private study - ask would-be respondents to enter a password first.

The password has to be between 1 and 250 characters long, with no additional demands on the type of characters.

Don't forget to share the password with the intended respondents! :)

Set the ending conditions for the study 

By finishing a study, you make sure that it stops collecting data from more respondents. You can finish a study both manually and automatically:

• Manually - End the study anytime you want, without constraints
• Respondent limit - Automatically finish the study once it's been conducted with enough respondents.
• Closing date - Automatically finish a study once a deadline has been reached.

Even when you set a study to finish automatically, you can always finish it manually when you want to by clicking the Finish button.

If a deadline is reached while some respondents are still working on completing the study, these respondents will be allowed to finish up.