Using surveys effectively
In any campaign you might want to get quick answers to simple questions. For example, in an election campaign you might want to ask:
Who do you intend to vote for?
What issues are important to you?
CiviSurvey is used in these sorts of situations where you have a very limited set of questions to ask, and where the contacts you intend to survey are already in your database.
In CiviCampaign, we can use surveys and petitions to collect data to support our campaign objectives. Surveys are used to collect data from contacts that are already in CiviCRM. In this recipe we shall create a survey to ask contacts about their voting intentions. We will distribute the survey to our volunteers so that they can conduct the survey from door-to-door (a walklist survey).
How to do it…
We need to set up some custom fields to hold our survey questions and then link them to a survey. In this example, we will create a single question and distribute it as a door-to-door survey managed by our...
