Survey Settings (Server Settings Tab)

Administrative Module Access

Survey administrators log into the Online Administrative Module using a browser (the login page is studynameadmin.html on the web server) to manage studies in the field and download data. A User Name and Password are required to access the Administrative Module.

This area is used to specify the passwords you use to access the Admin Module. Default user names and random passwords are provided for your convenience (new random passwords are created for each new study), but you can change these if you like.

User Name

Lets you provide a name with up to 12 characters.

Read-Only Password

Lets you provide a password with up to 12 characters (passwords are case-sensitive and can only use numbers or letters). Read-only passwords convey limited administrative rights (e.g. you cannot download the data, delete or accumulate disqualified/incomplete data, edit the passwords file, or reset the survey.)

Read-Modify Password

Lets you provide a password with up to 12 characters (passwords are case-sensitive and can only use numbers or letters). Read-modify passwords convey full administrative rights.

We encourage you to use strong passwords that include a combination of alphabetic and numeric characters, and are at least eight characters long.

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Server Directory Paths

Sometimes you may find that your ISP doesn't let you set up directories the way we've outlined. Or, you may simply have other preferences regarding your study's architecture on your server. You can change the names and locations of the directories on this dialog.

This dialog lets you specify relative paths for the Administrative, CGI Scripts and Data directories.

The five paths are as follows:

Administrative Directory:

Path from Perl scripts to the /admin directory

CGI Scripts Directory:

Path from STUDYNAMElogin.html and STUDYNAMEadmin.html to the directory that contains ciwweb.pl and admin.pl

Data Directory:

Path from Perl scripts to the /data directory

Relative Path from

CGI Scripts to Graphics:

Path from Perl scripts to the /graphics directory

Relative Path from

login.html to Graphics:

Path from STUDYNAMElogin.html to the /graphics directory

When you use the Add Image icon to add graphics to your study, your <img> tags then contain the function [%GraphicsPath( )%] in their paths. [%GraphicsPath( )%] will be replaced on the web server with the path that you provided here in the Server Settings tab of the Survey Settings dialog. For example if you set your graphics path to "../My Graphics/" and you included <img src="[%GraphicsPath( )%]picture.jpg" BORDER="0"> in your questionnaire, then on the web server that path would dynamically change to <img src="../MyGraphics/picture.jpg" BORDER="0">.

If you rename the directories that the files are stored in on your server or use absolute file references, put the new MyGraphics file in your CGI Scripts directory so that the Perl scripts can find your study.

If you can only run Perl scripts from one directory and you want to have multiple studies running at the same time. The paths in the Server Settings tab of the Survey Settings dialog must be set correctly for each study and then each study's STUDYNAMEpath.cgi file must be placed in the cgi-bin directory. For example, if two studies "T1" and "T2" share the same Perl files, then the cgi-bin directory would need to contain the T1path.cgi and T2path.cgi files.

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Customizing the Admin Module

You may customize the look of the Admin Module by creating your own CSS file. In the on the Server Settings tab, enter the name of your custom CSS file. You can place this CSS file in the graphics folder or you can refer to a remote file by listing the full URL (i.e. http:// …). If the CSS file is placed in the graphics folder, you will need to include the graphics path. For example:

[%GraphicsPath()%]your_style.css

By including a custom CSS file we will remove all "Sawtooth Software" branding from the Admin Module.
To remove our title and include your company's logo include the following CSS:

#title_text

{

display: none;

}

#title

{

background:url('your_logo.gif') no-repeat center center;

height: 50px;

}