Surveys for Jira is not only the most configurable survey app on the market. It also provides freedom for you to brand your surveys in any way you want. You only need to throw in some CSS glitter, and sky is the limit as to what you can do.
You So, you can use CSS to customize the surveys. That includes the smileys: you can configure the rating scale to appear as sad / happy smiling faces for your users. We would like to help get you started, so here is the examples for you, and this is how it works.
So there's There are two places where a survey recipient can see the rates (be that stars or smileys, or whatever image):
- The survey form itself_SP - branding your surveys
- _SP - branding your surveys itself
That includes the smileys: you can configure the rating scale to appear as sad / happy smiling faces for your users or whatever image that you want.
We cannot change the way that the rates appear in the email because we don't have control over how email clients are handling things. Not to worry, there's a workaround for that: you can configure the survey settings in a way that the email contains a link to the survey, not the rating scale, see screenshots with examples:1.
- This is how a survey email looks for the recipient if you select Rating Form on the
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- Email tab:
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- If you select Web Link on the
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- Email tab:
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- You can display the link to the survey form as an image as opposed to the link with words. And that image could look like those smiling faces:
Note that each separate face is not a separate link, so when you click on the image, you will just be redirected to a survey form page where you select the actual rating for the survey. But this appearance in the email could potentially be more appealing for your users
Survey form
This is the place where you can use css, and here's how you do it:
- Write what you need a user to see in the survey form, here's an example.
Note1: you can use variable placeholders to personalize your surveys ($$reporter$$ will change to a username in the survey form.
Note2: you have to include #form and #SdQuestion in the end. This shows the form with questions that you set up in the survey.
- Click the </> button to open the source.
- Paste the css style for the rates to the end, after everything you have. I highlighted the css part that I pasted.
- Save everything, send survey, enjoy the results.
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Examples CSS style and Outcome Husky dogs Here's an example of css that
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you can use. When you paste the code below after your content in the Form Body field (in the source, not just in the field!) on the Form tab, you will see Husky dogs instead of the stars, like this image below.
Code Block collapse true <style> .cpime-rating-star input[type="radio"]
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+ label
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{background-image:url(https://cdn0.iconfinder.com/data/icons/siberian-husky-emoticons-1/512/Angry-Emoji-Emotion-Face-Expression-Feeling-512.png);background-size:36px 36px;border-radius:5px;background-repeat: no-repeat;display:inline-block;margin:0px;width:36px;height:36px;}
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.cpime-rating-star input[type="radio"]:checked + label
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{background-image:url(https://cdn0.iconfinder.com/data/icons/siberian-husky-emoticons-1/512/Smile-Emoji-Emotion-Face-Expression-Feeling-shiba-512.png);background-size:36px 36px;border-radius:5px;}
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.selected
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{background-image:url(https://cdn0.iconfinder.com/data/icons/siberian-husky-emoticons-1/512/Smile-Emoji-Emotion-Face-Expression-Feeling-shiba-512.png) !important;background-size:36px 36px;border-radius:5px;}
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</style>
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Note, you can see that as soon as 4th rate was selected so there's 4 happy huskies
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and one angry husky.
Halloween time Here's another example that
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you can use, it has funny rates that can be used for surveys during Halloween time, so you can have some fun if you celebrate this holiday of course
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Here's a css style for this, and I also highlighted the paths to the images that my devs used.
Code Block collapse true <style> .cpime-rating-star input[type="radio"]
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+ label
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{background-image:url(http://www.iconsearch.ru/uploads/icons/iconslandvistahalloween/64x64/sad.png);background-size:36px 36px;border-radius:5px;background-repeat: no-repeat;display:inline-block;margin:0px;width:36px;height:36px;}
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.cpime-rating-star input[type="radio"]:checked + label
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{background-image:url(http://www.iconsearch.ru/uploads/icons/iconslandvistahalloween/64x64/smile.png);background-size:36px 36px;border-radius:5px;}
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.selected
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{background-image:url(http://www.iconsearch.ru/uploads/icons/iconslandvistahalloween/64x64/smile.png) !important;background-size:36px 36px;border-radius:5px;}
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</style>
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4th rate was also selected there so you see 4 happy pumpkins.
Surveys background Another fun example is the background you can use for the surveys and
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this is we wanted to share with you so that you get the idea of how much you can do to brand your surveys.
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- Save everything, send survey, enjoy the results.
Give it a try, I we hope the examples helped you get a sense of what you can do, and do let me us know how it goes, I'd we would be happy to help if you have any additional questions.
Best,
Natalia
Hi John,
Just wanted to share with you the status. I was playing around with survey settings and found a tweak that you could use for the survey email, that is you can display the link to the survey form as an image as opposed to the link with words. And that image could look like those smiling faces:
Note that each separate face is not a separate link, so when you click on the image, you will just be redirected to a survey form page where you select the actual rating for the survey. But this appearance in the email could potentially be more appealing for your users?
Regarding the second item which is displaying each separate rate in the survey form as a different image - that one is still in progress, and I'm yet to hear from the developers whether this is possible with CSS alone or this is something that can only be implemented as a new feature in the plugin.
Thanks and I'll keep you posted once I find more.