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This day has come! We are happy to announce v4.0 of Surveys for Jira – the most configurable and powerful survey app on the market – and it is stronger than ever. 

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FieldDescription
Email SubjectEnter an email subject that you want your end users to see in the survey email.
Survey Recipient

In most cases survey recipient would be the reporter of the ticket.

In addition to that, our users also found it to be convenient to be able to select a different user or even send surveys to several recipients.

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Group survey feature is available starting with v4.0.0 of the app.

You can send surveys to:

  • Single User – that can be a ticket Assignee, Reporter, or a custom single user that exists in your Jira.
  • User Group - enables you to send a survey to theselected Jira user groups. Be aware that group survey is sent once per ticket. This option is useful if you want to survey a set group of Jira users, survey your project team in the end of the sprint (sprint retro), survey your QA team separately, or HR department in your company for instance.



  • Dynamic group of users – this option is extremely popular with companies that want to survey multiple people but sets of those people are dynamic and can be different for every ticket, so a multi user picker custom field is used for that.
    For example, upon resolving a bug you can survey all ticket participants, not just a ticket reporter, and survey participants might differ for any particular ticket. Like the previous option, note that the group survey will only be sent once per ticket.

  • Custom - with this option you can create any custom surveys for any specified Jira users, you are not limited by a user group. Select multiple Jira users by entering their names or emails. Like the previous option, note that the group survey will only be sent once per ticket.
    For this option you can select both internal Jira users and customers of your Service Desk support portal, that is your clients that created accounts in your support portal.


Use project email for 'Reply To'By default, the surveys are sent from Jira service account, and people cannot reply to the survey emails. You can opt to select the email from the project settings as a reply-to email for the surveys.
Email Body

Here you can design a body of your survey that the end user will receive. You can use the placeholder variables in order to personalize your email template. The placeholder values wrapped by "$$" signs will be populated by the information submitted in the ticket that triggers the survey.

You can make your survey stand out by designing it in line with your company brand. Use Upload Resources and Insert Resources buttons to use your visual assets.

Note

Be sure to insert the "$$weblink$$" placeholder in order to generate the URL of the custom template. The Edit button enables you to customize the name of the weblink shown in the email survey. 
For instance, you can make a link with a simple text message "Click here to access survey" or insert a linked image.


Survey Email IncludeYou can customize your survey emails to include either a survey rating scale or to display a link to your survey form.
Work WithDepending on how you want to shape your surveys you can choose to work with star rating or specify a yes/no question as the main survey question for the users.
Rating Elements

Some companies find it useful to work with a number scale as an alternative to a star scale. This is just a matter of preference but we made sure that you can use both a star system (like Amazon or Google) or a number system (like Booking).

For the number scale we have also implemented an option to include a zero rating as some companies find it useful in their surveying processes.

Rates Count

You can choose to have a default 5 rating scale or decide to simplify it to less rating elements (3 - Good, 2 - Medium, 1 - Bad for instance) or have more granularity and change the rates count up till 10 for more sophisticated surveys.

Warning

We highly recommend that you reset your survey statistics before changing your rating scale. Otherwise you risk to receive confusing data in your survey reports. For example, you used to have a 5 star survey and moved to the 10 star one. All positive feedback with 5 stars that meant happy and satisfied users would no longer look as such on a 10 star scale.

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Questions

If a basic survey is limited to one survey question and one comment, custom survey enables you to add several custom questions to your survey and work with single/multiple choice questions and/or text fields.

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PreviewClick this button to get a sense how your survey email might look like for a survey recipient.
Test survey

You can send an actual survey to test the complete flow. Once you click this button, a dialog form appears where you specify the following information:

  • Send survey for – select a ticket for which you want to send a test survey. We recommend that you create a separate test ticket for that in order not to mix with your actual survey data.

Form

Your users are notified about the surveys via email and then can open a survey form by clicking a rating scale or a link embedded in the email. Use the Form tab to configure your surveys once the users open a survey form from the email. This is the essence of the survey where you put all your survey questions.

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Form

Form body

Enter an introductory text for your survey. Use a WYSIWYG editor to build your own template.

You can use CSS to give a branded look to your surveys - pumpkin rates for the Halloween time surveys, smileys for April 1, company logo or corporate background are just among the few ideas of what's possible. Click the </> button to upload your coded template.

If you want to upload and reference images, use the Upload Resources and Insert Resources buttons. 

Ask user for a commentIf you would like your users to submit a comment along with their star rating, select "Yes" for this option. You can set up your surveys to ask for the comment only if a negative rating is given.
Thank you messageAppreciate feedback your users provide with this message. It's shown to the user when they submit survey answers.
URL for expired surveys

For you to have accurate data there is no possibility to answer the survey again if it was answered already. If a person submits their feedback, goes to the email and tries to enter a survey again, they will be presented with a message and a link where they can submit more feedback or raise another ticket. Usually companies like to enter a URL for their Service Desk portal so that there is still connection with the users.

Questions

Question dialog
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Use the Questions section to add any custom questions to your survey. When inserting your own questions, select the type of question you'd like to create and supply the appropriate options. 

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  • If you select to include questions in your custom survey, be sure to add in the #SdQuestion placeholder on the Advanced Survey tab so that the questions will render in the external survey.
  • Ensure that you click the Save button so that the questions render.

Advanced Survey

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Advanced Survey

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The placeholders section contains two additional items that are not available on the Content tab.
Be sure to add both placeholders into your survey message. 

  • #Form — inputs a dynamic rating diagram
  • #SdQuestion — inserts the questions created in the previous section

As user for a comment - If you would like your users to submit a comment along with their star rating, select "Yes" for the Ask user for comment? option. You can modify whether this comment should be visible in the original ticket or only saved in a survey report and accessible to the Administrator only.Additionally, you can select the </> html button if you want to upload your own coded template. If you want to upload and reference images, use the Upload Resources and Insert Resources buttons. In addition to these, you can use CSS to give a completely new look to your surveys - pumpkin rates for the Halloween time surveys, smileys forApril 1, company logo or corporate background are just among the few.




Trigger Point

On the Trigger Point tab, you can specify a condition that should trigger the email survey. This could be a change in the ticket status or a more complex JQL query.

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