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Limesurvey is “good enough” for most applications and is open source- any reason why that wouldn’t work for your use case?

• jraph 2y ago
  As far as I know, LimeSurvey can't auto update a spreadsheet with the answers. But LimeSurvey has its advantages: - it's in PHP, and our whole infra is already using it (WordPress and Nextcloud). So it's easier to setup and if we want bridges between these tools, it'll be easier. - AFAIR, it doesn't require JS when filling a form and in particular, it's not a React app. We have used LimeSurvey in the past, we got rid of it but I don't remember why, I should look into it another time. Two other big requirements we have is solid conditional field support and easy to use form builder.
  • flavaz 2y ago
    Reason why I ask is that there are many form/survey builders out there, as people often underestimate the complexity it takes to set one up that supports things like max diff, routing etc. Looking at the forums I can see that some have managed to achieve what you need via plugins (albeit the one I see that is confirmed working seems to be paid…) Just thinking contributing an open source plugin to a great open source scripting tool would save you headaches down the road :)
    • jraph 2y ago
      You are right, this is a time consuming and a genuinely hard problem to tackle. I have not been satisfied with existing software, but I would be happy to find out otherwise.