Hi mfaver, you can have:

example.org/123564 for url (if you deactivate showScript in config).

But yes : a plugin to have "Little url" can be a good idea

remind the config problem : then

• index.php/lilurl : path + showScript
• /lilurl : path - showscript
• /index.php?r=lilurl (get+showscript : need testing)
• /?r=lilurl (get - showscript : need testing).

Denis

Thanks for the hint and your input!

There's another reason for being able to choose your own URL: If you have given the link to some participants (aaa.com/123456) and now you want to change the survey, the link will change.

With a user url (aaa.com/greatsurvey) you can change the underlying survey and your participants still find it.

+1 for a user selectable short url ;)

Hi,

Sometimes i use htaccess directly for this ;)

oh, ok, so you can just use a

redirect /aaa.com/limesurvey/123456 /aaa.com/limesurvey/654321

and limesurvey is ok with it?
Cool! Again thanks for the hint :)

Maybe we can do like that, but more like this:

redirect /mylilurl /index.php/survey/676767

Or that to in www.example.org
redirect /survey http://survey.example.org/index.php/survey/76767

Think your metho is OK too :)

Hmmm...I'll leave this one open because it would be nice to have control over the url via LS interface.
But because of your solution it now has a very, very....very low priority :)
Thanks again,
M

"+1 for a user selectable short url" - I agree.

I would also like to see the capability of assigning an "alias" for the survey.

I also currently use .htaccess redirects but it's just one more level of complexity.

This would be great to have as a feature. Of course, manually redirecting is okay too, but requires a system administrator to set up. Native support in LimeSurvey would be really handy.

Example survey "Opinion Survey 2014-1" with the alias "opinion":

OLD:
https://example.org/lime/index.php/survey/index/sid/12345/token/test1234/lang/en

NEW:
https://example.org/survey/opinion/test1234/en
or without an alias:
https://example.org/survey/12345/test1234/en

Duplicate? http://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=5621

@jonsen : not really duplicate, i think .

The other
/sid/12345/token/test1234/lang/en : /shoturl

This one:
/sid/12345/token/test1234/lang/en : /shoturl/token/test1234/lang/en

+1 for short URLs!

Think short url can be only for surveyid OR surveyid + lang.

Not for token and/or for newtest.

well... the frontend url is analyzed by procedural code ( in controller/survey/index.php and in SurveyRuntimeHelper)
so it should not be that hard to do.

I think it can be done currently with a beforeControllerAction event if beforeControllerAction happened before 404 …

Because by default /mysurvey send a 404 …

@LouisGac : i'm OK with you, not an easy task, but not needed in frontend helper if you use a redirect.

+1
I even once started looking at how to implement this

+1 for an option of short URLs in place of surveyid's, which probably would benefit a lot of users :)

Since I have only english as the language I have removed the language parameter manually in surveySummary_view.php and with having ShowScriptName disabled my survey urls only include the survey ID, which is already a lot better then the default. But short urls look better in emails and of course can be easier remembered when promoting verbally :)

I think though redirects would be better used for the original url (with sid) / previous changed short urls, so the survey remains reachable that way but the current short url remains visible in the browser address bar when visited.

btw. I think this is a duplicate of https://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=7538

For plugin : beforeControllerAction : since controller/action are done like this
r=controller/action : get the controller : test if in little url DB, if yes : redirect.

Can be done in plugin.
Without rewrite mode : you need /index.php?r=litleurl

Plus one from me, providing surveys to schools and medical institutions so shorter in all cases is better. Many reasons, one being firewalls love breaking long urls in emails and not all users are aware of how to fix them.

@c_schmitz/@f_funke, this is a good example of a feature which would benefit from a better feature tracker. Not only allowing users to vote would be helpful but also checking for duplicates (see relationships added to this ticket).

A simple fix for this would be:
If survey title is unique, create url from title instead of survey id.
Else, create url from id.

I guess users don't usually make surveys with same titles as they are ambiguous, so this fix will match many use cases.

2 years since last comment from assigned person LouisGac.
Any update on this? Shouldn't be unassigned if no one is working on this?

I like the idea of using the survey title. It is very similar to how Wordpress creates SEO friendly page URLs.

@cdorin, is there a list of feature for future Limesurvey 4.x features? This would be worth adding.

I suggest having a separate field. Mostly because for administration purposes the name often contains some technical info eg. date references, project numbers, client names etc that you might not want visible or what is simply irrelevant. It should be a unique url-friendly (no spaces etc) value that would use SID by default or some other defined value.

I suggest to do it on an external way ...

Think beforeControlleraction can be used , need mod_rewrite or similar

I would agree with Tonis' suggestion to have a separate field. This would allow shortening the survey name (if that is what you want to use).

Two additional "wishes" that may or may not be possible:

1) Localize the field so you can send "understandable" URLs in different languages.

2) Add a parameter to switch automatically triggering newtest=Y.

2) Add a parameter to switch automatically triggering newtest=Y.

What do you mean @tpartner?
Can you ellaborate more?

2) Add a parameter to switch automatically triggering newtest=Y.

You can not for newtest=Y in rewrite : only in redirect.

Looking at code : seems /mylilurl call directly survey/index controller. If you add newtest=Y : /mylilurl start again and again and again the survey.

PR: https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/pull/2218

Fix committed to master branch: http://bugs.limesurvey.org/plugin.php?page=Source/view&id=34144

Is there documentation?

Nice catch :)

Is this going to be available at the next 5.x version?

Please share documentation link later. I am curious to see how the setup is done.
Can you provide a sample URL for testing?

Hi All!

Setup is pretty simple: From the Survey Settings, you just set the alias (short url) for each survey and language.

Manual Updated: https://manual.limesurvey.org/Text_elements#Survey_Alias_.28New_in_5.5_.29

Issue for publicurl : https://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=18821

Need option in https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/0b5acab20cb24b7e31d185dfd04cbedbcac803ff#diff-0268c3e4648700cef058f99725fd5364a285bd35701d30cfda885a81ce1c86a4R2306