Difference between revisions of "SurveyCTO Server Management"
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SurveyCTO offers multiple types of plans that suit different project's needs. This section described what features have made different DIME project to use different plans. For full details on the plans, see http://www.surveycto.com/plans.html. | |||
There is one free plan that is an option for new users that wants to explore SurveyCTO. In return for using the free account the user needs to be an active user in the forums on SurveyCTO's website. DIME projects can instead use DIME's [[DIME_Development_server|development server]] that is free of charge to the project team. | |||
= How to organize users = | = How to organize users = | ||
Revision as of 14:46, 13 January 2017
change name to SCTO Server management
In SurveyCTO, all questionnaires and data associated with a project is uploaded to a server. Server sound technical but from the perspective of the user experience, it is nothing more complicated than opening a internet browser and logging in to your project's account on SurveyCTO's website. We will keep using the term "server" but for most purposes it can just as well be thought of as an "account".
The project team uploads questionnaire to the server
If you are working on a DIME project and you are still just developing your questionnaire, please read about DIME's development server first.
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- If you update your server, you must update the SurveyCTO Collect app on all tablets using that server
Plans
SurveyCTO offers multiple types of plans that suit different project's needs. This section described what features have made different DIME project to use different plans. For full details on the plans, see http://www.surveycto.com/plans.html.
There is one free plan that is an option for new users that wants to explore SurveyCTO. In return for using the free account the user needs to be an active user in the forums on SurveyCTO's website. DIME projects can instead use DIME's development server that is free of charge to the project team.
How to organize users
Keeping your server up to date
SurveyCTO regularly releases updates for the servers. These updates are not automatically pushed to all servers as one should be careful if updating a server during an ongoing survey. Each version of the survey comes with a corresponding version of the Android app SurveyCTO collect. There is a risk of the communication between the Collect app and the server will have errors if the version of the Android app does not correspond to the version of the server. Ultimately, this can lead to corrupted or lost data.
When you start a new server, you get the latest version by default. It is recommended that the server is updated between each survey round when no data collection is going on. After the server is updated, all tablets need to be updated as well. The only way to guarantee that the