Activating questionnaires

To release a questionnaire online, you need to activate it. The Activation process uploads the questionnaire file to an UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin and creates an UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin project for it. It also creates a set of web pages for the questionnaire and provides a URL link to the web site containing the pages. Respondents can then access the web site and take the questionnaire by following the link.

Once you activate an interview, either in test mode or in live mode, any further changes that you make to the questionnaire file are saved in a separate version of the file. UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin updates the file and saves the changes with a new version number. The content of the file before the changes is always retained in an earlier version. This includes adding or deleting questions, and changing question types. It is therefore recommended that you test your interview using the Interview Preview option before activating the questionnaire, so that additions or deletions that you make in the course of designing your questionnaire are not permanently saved in the file.

You can activate the questionnaire either as a test or live interview. A test interview works in the same way as creating a live interview, except that any data collected is flagged as test data.

▪You cannot activate questionnaires (the Activate option is disabled) unless you are assigned to the Can activate in test mode activity role feature.

▪You cannot activate questionnaires in Go live mode (the Go live option is disabled) unless you are assigned to the Can activate in active mode activity role feature.

▪You cannot access advanced activation features (the More option is disabled) unless you are assigned to the Can view advanced activation settings activity role feature.

▪You cannot modify advanced activation settings (the More option is enabled, but each setting is read-only and the Load local file option is disabled) unless you are assigned to the Can edit advanced activation settings activity role feature.

For more information on user roles, see Assigning users or roles to activitiesUNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin.

▪Project does not exist in the Distributed Property Management (DPM) server: If the login user is assigned the canCreateProject activity feature, the user can activate the project (otherwise the user cannot activate the project).

▪Project exists in the Distributed Property Management (DPM) server: If the login user is the owner of the project, the user can activate the project. Otherwise, the following rules apply:

- If the project is assigned to login user, a check is made to determine if the project is currently locked by login user. If yes, the user can activate the project, otherwise a check is made to determine if the user is assigned the canUnlockProject activity feature. If assigned the canUnlockProject activity feature, the user can activate the project (otherwise the user cannot activate the project).