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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
20214Bug reportsUsability/user experiencepublic2025-08-12 14:41
Reportertassoman Assigned To 
PrioritynoneSeverityminor 
Status newResolutionopen 
Product Version6.6.x 
Summary20214: Create new survey skips initial settings
Description

When I try to create a new survey in my development vanilla LS 6.15.5 survey creation is missing usual customisation form and directly creates an "Untitled survey". Then you got redirected back to survey list (dashboard/view)

I was expecting to insert classic new survey startup parameters.

(also my staging server, refuse to create a new survey and displays a toast error: "Survey cannot be created")

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce

  1. install 6.15.5
  2. login superadmin
  3. click create new survey button

Expected result

as superadministrator I want to fillup surveys parameter (for example title) before survey is actually created.

Actual result

Create New Survey button redirects into dashboard/view controller, survey got created with title "Untitled survey". Also happens by activating "+" plus button.

Tagsadmin, survey
Bug heat6
Complete LimeSurvey version number (& build)6.15.5+250724
I will donate to the project if issue is resolvedNo
Browserfirefox 141.0 64b
Database type & versionmariadb
Server OS (if known)
Webserver software & version (if known)Apache 2.4
PHP VersionPHP 8.3

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tassoman

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tassoman

tassoman

2025-08-12 13:54

reporter   ~83214

By visiting /index.php/surveyAdministration/newSurvey creation is smooth flawless. Although button "create survey" routes to /index.php/surveyAdministration/createSurvey

tibor.pacalat

tibor.pacalat

2025-08-12 13:56

administrator   ~83216

We are changing this workflow currently, you are able to change the settings once the survey has been created.

tassoman

tassoman

2025-08-12 13:57

reporter   ~83217

6.14.3 gives 404 at route /index.php/surveyAdministration/createSurvey
Please delete my previous comment, was a mistake. I can't edit or delete my own comments.

tassoman

tassoman

2025-08-12 13:59

reporter   ~83218

Yes @tibor.pacalat thanks for your comment, but I feel it's a mayor issue, should be shipped completely when it's done. Sorry, this is half work, undocumented and a waste of time. Maybe for an imminent 6.16.0 but cannot be released as a patch. Excuse me, I feel a little disappointed. I released in staging.

tibor.pacalat

tibor.pacalat

2025-08-12 14:16

administrator   ~83219

I am sorry you feel this way @tassoman. On the other hand, I am not sure how I feel about your comment. Last that I checked, we are an open source software and you are using Limesurvey for free. We are constantly building new features and working on improving our software, which sometimes leads to rash decisions. This feature works as intended, and we listen to our users complaining about changing the existing work flows and lack of communication about upcoming changes. But we are improving constantly and learning along the way, as we all should.

tassoman

tassoman

2025-08-12 14:41

reporter   ~83221

Thanks for caring. As you probably know, our government organisation embraced LS and contribute as much is possible. For example, nowadays I'm filing WCAG accessibility assessment we paid for giving out an effective service. We paid our assessment and we're giving back info for free, to the community. We even contributed in the past fixing some small issues.

My previous disappointment was not a personal threat, not to the company, not to the community. It's because the value of a good long running project risks to get misunderstand by oversights.

This 7y old thread [1] lets we understand the project is using Semantic Versioning procedure [2]. Because the topic was reviewed by a community moderator, I guess it's real. Project is releasing small fixing patches. The matter is the latest minor looks like unstable for production, should be claimed in the downloads page and second last minor version should be claimed useful in production environments.

A full refactoring of administration routing and survey creation procedure, surely is not a small fix. I feel it's a complete work on a minor feature.

[1] https://forums.limesurvey.org/index.php/forum/development/115375-versioning-policy
[2] https://semver.org/

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-08-11 18:29 tassoman New Issue
2025-08-11 18:29 tassoman Issue Monitored: tassoman
2025-08-11 18:29 tassoman Bug heat 0 => 2
2025-08-11 18:29 tassoman Tag Attached: admin
2025-08-11 18:29 tassoman Tag Attached: survey
2025-08-12 13:54 tassoman Note Added: 83214
2025-08-12 13:54 tassoman Bug heat 2 => 4
2025-08-12 13:56 tibor.pacalat Note Added: 83216
2025-08-12 13:56 tibor.pacalat Bug heat 4 => 6
2025-08-12 13:57 tassoman Note Added: 83217
2025-08-12 13:59 tassoman Note Added: 83218
2025-08-12 14:16 tibor.pacalat Note Added: 83219
2025-08-12 14:41 tassoman Note Added: 83221