If like us, you’ve been busy spending your time working (building surveys, helping clients, upgrading software, reading logs, …), you may not have had a chance to keep up with the latest tips & tricks from our Help Centre. Feel free to have a flick through our latest picks:

Design & Analyse FAQs

Your first steps with Askia’s range of software are now even smoother! The askiadesign & askiaanalyse FAQs will help cover your needs when start building your first questionnaire or analysing your first survey results.

Askia analyse FAQ screenshot

Access the Design FAQ and/or the Analyse FAQ to take a look!

How to import / export Askiavista projects

Upgrading your Askiavista server environment? Using a staging server before deploying your Askiavista projects to your live environment? Look no further, this article walks us through the simple steps of using AskiaVista Tool to import and/or export Askiavista projects from one server to another.

AskiaVista Tool screenshot

This nifty application allows AskiaVista administrators to manage the import / export of Vista project related components: Portfolios, Filters, Weightings, Profiles, Calculated variables, Chart templates, Table styles, …

Check out the full article for more details.

Web survey link encryption

As from version 5.3.5, we’ve had the ability to send survey links with URL encryption / prettyfying. Up until now, encryption could only be achieved manually and was only reserved for StartSurvey link type. We have therefore created a script which allows you to encrypt survey links by batch, based on a CSV file. With this script, you can encrypt many URLs at once.

Therefore, a standard DoExternalPanel link with some extra parameters looks like:

http://mydomain.com/WebProd/cgi-bin/askiaext.dll?Action=DoExternalPanel&SurveyName=fullurl&Broker=askia&BrokerPanelId=4&tT=ad

And the encrypted version would return a URL like:

http://mydomain.com/WebProd/~jgAqch8-_cm6F4j1VIJMvSW8l_cYjUaX

Vista API tutorial

This article is a followup to the first API tutorial, it showcases a series of bite-sized examples to highlight important features of the Vista API.

askiavista API tutorial illustration

This extensive tutorial covers all the basics for Vista API development through 11 examples that feature such concepts as: displaying a cross-tab via the getPages method, securing your dashboard with a login page, grouping multiple requests to improve load management and client-side performance, retrieving a list of questions and/or responses via the askiavista.getQuestions and the askiavista.getResponses methods, adding a dropdown menu to your dashboards, … and many more!

Using Amazon S3 for resource uploads for Askiaface on iOS/Android

Using an external service to automatically upload your survey’s media captured on your iOS and/or Android devices is a very convenient way to centralise all such assets and a great method of securing all such resources.

This article covers all the steps from setting up your Amazon S3 account, checking all S3 settings and prepping your survey’s media capture questions in order to automate the upload of all media content.

Read the article for the full picture!