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Digish Gabhawala
Digish Gabhawala

Reputation: 44

Limesurvey offline UI support

I want to create a survey using limesurvey and export it as UI (HTML/JS/CSS) for offline usage.

I want these pages to be exported and then used as offline html application(file://) for mobile using webview without need of internet.

As far as response is there, I can capture this response at javascript level and cache it (localstorage) and when network is available, I may submit it.

I tried searching if there is any possibility of offline support from limesurvey but I did not get anything.

Can someone please provide any pointers? I am not a PHP developer so if you think that after doing some changes in PHP code, thats possible, then please suggest where should I look for?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 857

Answers (2)

Marcel
Marcel

Reputation: 1

The problem with the mentioned approach is that even if you succeed in storing all HTML + JS + CSS of the whole survey, it will not look very nice when running such a "fake survey" on your local device. You'll have to scroll a lot and most probably the download HTML + CSS doesn't contain any optimization for mobile devices.

Furthermore, if you store data locally by adding some additional JS, you need to make sure to store it in a proper format to be able to upload responses back to Limesurvey.

I have recently tested a Limesurvey Android app called "OfflineSurveys" (see offlinesurveys.com) and they seem to have solved those issues. I was even able to run a survey in Limesurvey's group by group and question by question mode.

According to http://www.offlinesurveys.com/sync-responses-automatically the app can even sync responses automatically at the background once Internet connection is available.

Upvotes: 0

Franz
Franz

Reputation: 1

As long as you can keep the survey on a single page, you can save the generated survey in an html file which contains all the javascript Limesurvey creates for that survey.

HTH

Upvotes: 0

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