Releases: EUSurvey/EUSURVEY
Release 1.5.2.9
- EU CAPTCHA: The new EU CAPTCHA has been integrated to EUSurvey. It includes not only a visual CAPCTHA but also an audio CAPTCHA for visually impaired or blind users. This new CAPTCHA improve the Web Accessibility and inclusivity of the EUSurvey application.
- Custom feedback page: The latest page that is displayed at the end of a form when questions have been answered can now be customized. You can add text and metadata from this list: {InvitationNumber}, {ContributionID}, {UserName}, {CreationDate}, {LastUpdate} and {Languages}.
- Custom title for the motivation popup: You can now change the title of he new motivation popup that has been recently implemented in addition to the text body. ‘Motivation pop-up’ remains the default value.
- Line elements are now excluded from the numbering option when it is selected. This avoid confusion among the survey participants.
- Remove 'Reset filter' option for survey results without filter.
- Complex Table: Results page now displays 'Pie Charts' by default for Standard surveys.
- Contact Form - Improve feedback after sending a survey-related request.
- Numbering no longer added to Line element.
Version 1.5.1
Release of the 12 November 2020
1. New features & Improvements
Please see below the new features and improvements which have been added:
- New Slider question element (combined with Number into Number-Slider).
- New Time question element to collect time values.
- New feature for sending automatically confirmation emails to the survey respondents.
- New feature to blank answers of a specific question (useful for data protection).
- New option on the Results screen to delete all results for a specific question.
- Add Asc-Desc sorting arrows for the Survey Search.
- The behaviour of ‘Add new translation’ dialog box has been improved.
- Addition of a disclaimer for the use of the eTranslation service.
- Addition of a global filter ‘My surveys’ on the Dashboard.
- Addition of Date Pickers for filtering on results page.
- For Quiz survey, the score obtained for each question appears in the contribution.
- Improvement of the language selector.
- Improvement of the Guest List.
- Error pages have been reviewed and updated.
- Deactivation of invitation link when contact has been removed from guest-list.
- Help messages are now only shown when the user has clicked on the icon.
2. Predefined list
- Update and rename the 'Commission DGs' predefined list into 'Departments & Executive agencies'.
3. Bug fixes
As usual, many bug have been fixed. Below a short selection:
- ‘Gaelic’ language has been changed into ‘Irish’ as requested by DGT.
- Fixed a bug regarding questions unexpectedly reordered.
- Fixed a visual bug that occurred on small screens.
- Fixed a bug about multiple languages displayed in Draft emails.
4. API / XML generated
- Update of the API specifications document
- Addition of the specifications for the new Question Element TIME
Version 1.5.0
Release of the 16 June 2020
1. Page redesign & look and feel
- A full redesign of the Survey Properties pages.
- A redesign of the Survey Results pages.
- ‘Contributions’ page has been fully redesigned ; and
- Survey ‘Stats’ page is no longer limited in height.
- A redesign of the Survey Participants pages.
- A new design of the existing authentication screen for secured survey (including the addition of the Contact form option).
- An improved look and feel for the Support page (colour, icons etc.).
- An improved “Create new survey” and “Copy survey” dialogue window.
- An harmonization of all tables across the application.
- EUSurvey Homepage is now the Dashboard page (against the Login page before).
- A new Footer in compliance with the EC standards.
2. New features & improvements
- As requested, a new feature to limit the total number of contributions (on the Properties page), especially useful if you manage online event registrations.
- A Contact Form which is a page allowing survey respondents to contact the survey owner in addition to the classic email channel.
- A new notifications system for messages to the user.
- New search option: “My surveys” & “Shared with me" on the right-panel in the Survey page allowing survey managers to find their surveys quickly. And, a new keywords based search option: "Title / Alias" on the right-panel in the Survey page.
- In the Editor, several selected elements can now be moved up and down by group.
- A new option for the ‘Contributions’ component, on the Dashboard page, to see the entire survey lifetime.
- A character counter to inform the user regarding the remaining number of characters of some text fields.
- Language ISO code is now displayed in the language list (Translations page).
- Selected Dashboard filters are now locally stored.
- When visibility of a Section is applied, the user can also apply the same visibility changes to all element within that Section.
- Deleted questions can now be exported into XML from the Results page.
- Email invitation can now include metadata (name, email etc.) in the email subject.
- An improvement of the email body sent for invitation, so that, the receiver understand the token is unique and cannot be shared.
- Top-left cell of Matrix and Table elements is now editable.
3. New privacy statement in 24 languages
- A new privacy statement to accept in the 24 official EU languages.
4. Predefined lists
- A new predefined list "EU agencies" in the Editor.
- The possibility to display the ISO code and/or country name for the following predefined lists: EU member states & UN member states
5. API / XML generated
- “data-mce-href” attribute (and similar ones) have been removed from the XML.
- Spelling error for MatrixCell: "dependenElement" Vs "dependentElement" has been fixed.
Version 1.4.5.3 > 1.4.5.2
Release of the 03 March 2020
Some URL related vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed. An attacker could have unauthorized access to user sensitive data (name, email address etc.). As a result, moderation measures have been implemented to mitigate the risk of such malicious attacks.
Version 1.4.5.2 > 1.4.5.1
Release of the 18 Feb 2020
This releases fixes for the following issues:
- BREXIT update: UK has been removed form the EU Member States predefined list.
- Unpublished translations viewable: Unpublished translations were displayable in the Form Runner by adding a parameter into the URL. This defect has been fixed. From now, if a language parameter is added for a non-published language then the application will only display the main language.
- Some XML issues regarding the Contribution files and Date s format have been fixed.
- An information message was incorrectly displayed for the loading of the Draft Contribution. This was misleading users. This issue has been fixed.
- Another Incorrect error message was displayed when successfully submitting a Contribution. This issue has been fixed.
Version 1.4.5.1 > 1.4.5.6773
Release of the 11 Dec 2019
- Bug fixes
This release fixes the issues below:
- Results were incorrectly displayed as Swedish instead of English ;
- Results export failed for a specific survey ;
- Another results export failed because the data displayed in the Results tab did not
match the content exported to Excel/ODS.
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Functional changes
This release includes the following functional changes:
The link to report an ‘abuse’, in other words an infringement to EUSurvey Terms of
Service, has been renamed for reducing the number of misuse. This should make clearer
for the survey respondents that they can report here an ‘abusive’ survey and have to use
the “Contact us“ form for reporting other technical or functional issues. -
Cookie Consent Kit
The European Commission Cookie Consent Kit has been implemented. For your
information, EUSurvey is using cookies only when necessary and currently is only using
temporary session ID cookies: one for the session and one for testing that creating cookie
is enabled. Everything else that is saved in the browser uses local storage. -
API update
EUSurvey Web Services have been updated for the benefit of all existing and future
consumers including the Doris application, for which integration is underway.
The following Web Services have been enriched and now returns more data:
getSurveyMetadata and prepareResultsXML. In addition, a new Web Service has been
created: getMySurveys. It returns a list of surveys depending on the user and parameters
entered. Please refers to the latest API specifications document. Please note that all these
changes do not affect your existing calls, so they do not need to be updated. -
Performances and technical improvements
Some performances and technical improvements have been implemented
v1.4.5.6773: EUSURVEY 1.4.5
- NEW FEATURES
1.1. New login screen & two-factor authentication
A new login screen has been implemented in order to direct EU staff and
non EU staff to the right authentication methods. Users not woking for
an EU institution are guided to authenticate using two-factor
authentication. Users working for an EU institution can login using
their credentials (username/password). Links related to the account
management are available from the login page:
How to create an EULogin account ;
Learn more about EULogin ;
Register your mobile phone ; and
Register your mobile phone number
1.2. Report an issue with this survey link
A new link to report an issue with a survey has been added to the main
page of published survey. It directs the visitor or contributor to a
page where he can report the survey specifying why he think the survey
is in infringement with the EUSurvey policy and terms of service.
Survey owners will be informed of the number of times their surveys have
been reported. This will be displayed through a red warning banner at
the top of the survey summary.
1.3. GDPR-related enquiry
On this matter, a new item has been added on the Support page in the
“Contact reason” menu.
1.4. Freeze a survey
This new feature offers the possibility to administrators to block a
survey, in other words to make it inaccessible from the web. This is now
in place within the administration section.
1.5. Ban a user
This new feature offers the possibility to administrators to ban a user
account. The ban user will no longer be able to connect to the EUSurvey
application.
- DIFFERENT ENHANCEMENTS TARGETING SYSTEM'S USABILITY
2.1. General performance improvements
A number of measures have been taken to improve the overall performance
of the application for participants as well as for the survey managers.
2.2. Improvement of User Experience
Several small changes have been completed to improve the usability and
user experience of EUSurvey. The FAQ section has been updated to specify
the steps to perform in order to configure the confirmation message that
participants see when they have submitted their contribution.
- DIFFERENT BUG-FIXES AFFECTING THE SYSTEM'S USABILITY
3.1. Exporting Results bugs
Some bugs detected when exporting results have been corrected. Some
exports used to fail due to file attachment names containing special
characters or due to too many results. Export of large survey is now
more reliable.