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Publishing your statistics report
 
Would you like to show the statistical results of your staff survey to the company? You can by publishing the statistical report of your form results.


This document discusses the following:

How do I publish my statistical report?
Question types
Adding / removing items
Bar graphs
Filters
Dependencies
 

How do I publish my statistical report?
You can publish the statistics report by enabling the setting 'Publish statistics' on the Settings tab. Click the 'Settings' button to adjust the publication.
The settings screen shows a complete list of all form items available for publication. This list includes non-question items which have the appropriate setting enabled see below).
Using the displayed Identifiers you can make a selection of the items shown on the publication:
If you wish you can specify a password to protect your publication from unwanted attention.
Congratulations! Your statistics report is now pubished. To view the publication add '?stats' to the URL of your form. The URL would look like this: www.formdesk.com/your_foldername/your_formname?stats.
View a sample of a publication of a statistics report.
 

Question types
Statistieken worden van de volgende soorten vragen gegenereerd:
  • For multiple choice questions Formdesk reports the number and percentage of each chosen option.
  • For Check box questions the percentage and number is displayed for the times the check box has been selected.
  • For calculations and questions requiring a numeric response the average value is displayed.
 

Adding / removing items
By default, all questions capable of processing statistical data are included in the statistics report. Because this is not always desirable, Formdesk allows you to remove questions from your report. Non question- items, such as images and text items, can also be added to the report. This can be done for each item while adding / editing this item:
 

Bar graphs
The colours of the bar graph change when a certain percentage is reached. Every 20 % the colour will change, as displayed below.
 

Filters
You can use filters to limit your publication. This is very useful if you want to create multiple different publications of the same form. Filters are set on the results overview screen.

To use a filter add '&filter=filtername to the URL of your publication. A complete URL to a publication that uses a filter may look like: www.formdesk.com/your_foldername/formname?stats&filter=filter1. The filter used in the URL may not contain a [space] in its name.
 

Dependencies
Questions that are hidden or disabled using Dependencies do not count towards the answered questions. Because of this, your answer percentage may be lower than 100%.