CHECKBOX 4.1 Software Update Available

[bhenderson]

Release Notes

New Features
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1. Active Directory Integration:
Prior to this release, network authentication for the CHECKBOX application was done through an IIS configuration. With 4.1, CHECKBOX will now directly authenticate Active Directory users. When network login is enabled, a user will be able to browse to the login page and enter his/her active directory user credentials and login in to the application without having to specify a new set of credentials specific to CHECKBOX.

2. URL Rewriting:
URL Rewriting will allow survey administrators to provide access to surveys via a more”friendly” url. Currently, survey URLs have a form that is extremely long:

(http://xyz123surveys.com/checkbox/Su...3232323example)

Long URLs have three major drawbacks:

1. They are not easy to remember.

2. They are potentially intimidating and could reduce response rates.

3. When put into some email clients, the strong can wrap and break the link.

Our new URL rewriting feature will solve these three problems.

3. CAPTCHA item type:

CHECKBOX 4.1 will include a CAPTCHA item type. CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. When used, this item type will prevent computer “bots” from finding and populating CHECKBOX surveys with false or spammy responses. This automated means of determining if a respondent is human is required to increase the security of our web-based application.

Resolved Issues
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• Report images are now cached in the database to prevent issues with web farms.
• Auto-login for network users should now work properly for default.aspx.
• The USERNAMENOTUNIQUE error that occurred when updating network users has been resolved.
• Fixed issue where “Automatically Log User In” option for invitations did not work.
• Fixed install issue that caused Windows or FreeForm connection string options to not update configuration files correctly.
• Changed default log file location to c:\temp\CheckboxExceptionLog.txt from
c:\temp\ExceptionLog.txt.
• Average Score Item Editor Score Option is now correct
• Email response item now allows delimited email address list
• Cross tabs report items calculate percentages correctly
• Added report filter documentation to the help system
• Can now delete incomplete responses
• Welcome text properly aligned for users with only report viewer permissions

[Troy M]

Pretty cool. Thanks guys!

[mcburn13]

Will there be a way to have Checkbox send the username in Completion Events? I am interested in using this for forms, and it would be a good way to prove who filled out the form.

Example. a timesheet form that gets sent to our HR.

Also, does checkbox have the functionality to where you can choose where to send the results? for the forms as well it would be useful to have a choice of where to send it, either in a drop down or as a result of another menu choice. For instance the user drops down the "Department" menu, and chooses "Finance". The time sheet results would automatically send to a generic Finance email address.. Just a thought...

[bhenderson]

YES, we can definitely handle of this this quite well. Our app is pretty flexible in how we can do this. Users of our "public" online demo probably won't be able to see this because we have turned off some of the email capabilities - we don't want random people spamming others from a prezzatech.com domain. What you can do to try this, is signup for a hosted trial (your own online hosted demo account) or download CHECKBOX server and install on a Windows server.

Here are the specific answers to your questions:

Q1.
Will there be a way to have Checkbox send the username in Completion Events? I am interested in using this for forms, and it would be a good way to prove who filled out the form.

A. Yes you can “pipe in” or redirect the usernames that are contained within the system to a field within an email. You can do this as long as the survey is actually using usernames. If the survey was set up to be a public survey and didn’t require username/password, then there wouldn’t be a username to pull from.

Q2.
Also, does checkbox have the functionality to where you can choose where to send the results? for the forms as well it would be useful to have a choice of where to send it, either in a drop down or as a result of another menu choice. For instance the user drops down the "Department" menu, and chooses "Finance". The time sheet results would automatically send to a generic Finance email address.. Just a thought...

A. Yes you can do this by first setting up all the potential email items that you would want to be sent. Set up a condition for each one, if answer to the Department question is finance, then send Finance Email item... If HR=selected, then send the Sales Email Item, etc.

- Brian