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New Custom Report

To create a new custom report, at the My Surveys page click the New custom report link. A report editing mode will open:

Enter report name:

The name of your new custom report.

Filter by date:

Click  Change...  to set a date filter for the custom report:

Predefined templates allow to quickly set most commonly used periods:

  • Overall (no filtering)
  • This year
  • Last year
  • This quarter
  • Last quarter
  • This month
  • Last month
  • This week
  • Last week
  • Last 7 days
  • This day
  • Last day

If you want to set a period of your own, check the option 'Custom' and set the "from" and "to" dates.

After you are finished, click  Save and Return  to save the filtering options. Otherwise click  Cancel Changes .

Filter by responses:

Click  Change...  to set a responses rule for the custom report. Only the answers that conform to the rules will be displayed, otherwise they will be excluded from the output.

The possible conditions are:

  • is equal: answer is exactly as shown;
  • is not equal: answer is not as shown;
  • EMPTY: no answer;
  • IS NOT EMPTY: any answer.

On the example above, only responses with answers "XP" and "NT" will be included in the custom report.

You may add new rules by clicking  Add Rule . Click  Delete  to delete the rule.

After you are finished, click  Save and Return  to save the filtering options. Otherwise click  Cancel Changes .

Crosstabulation:

Click  Change...  to set a crosstabulation rule:

Check the answers you wish to include in the contingency table. After you are finished, click the  Save and Return  to save the crosstab options. Otherwise click  Cancel .

See also:
What is crosstabulation?

Include questions:

Choose what questions to display in the custom report:

On the example above, only the respondent's name, e-mail, and Windows version will be included in the report. Fields "Subject" and "Message" will not be displayed in any case.

Buttons  Select All  and  Select None  help to check and uncheck.

After you are finished, click  Save and Return  to save the filtering options. Otherwise click  Cancel Changes .

Additional options:

Check additional layout options you want to activate in your custom report.

Data layout:

The following layouts are possible:

  • Summary: aggregate report similar to the Summary mode;
  • User list: per-response report similar to the List of responses mode;
  • User info: outputs number of user cards containing all the user answers and technical information, similar to individual respondent mode in the List of responses mode;
  • Table, layout [1, 2, 3]: results are presented in a table form, 3 different layouts are available.

Output as:

Check 'HTML' to view the results online, and 'TAB-separated' to download a file on your hard drive.

When you are finished with editing the custom report, click  Save and Show Report  to view the resulted report instantly. The button  Save and Return to My Reports  saves the report, but exits to the My Reports page without viewing it.

See also:
Edit Custom Reports
Custom Services

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