Zodiac.NET Survey Engine Toolkit

Zodiac.NET 1.3 - Survey Engine Toolkit for ASP.NET

Zodiac.NET is a web based survey engine and form builder toolkit for Microsoft .NET written in pure managed .NET C#. Zodiac.NET combines XML and ASP.NET in one customized, easy to use and integrated component for .NET web solutions. The engine helps .NET developers save the time and effort in creating surveys, questionnaires, exams and custom forms. The engine provides a collection of web controls that can be easily embedded in any ASP.NET page with the minimum configuration steps. Zodiac.NET uses XML to define the survey and collecting the user responses which add a great value in terms of integrating with other applications and analyzing the data. Zodiac.NET Survey Engine Toolkit

Features

  • Create questionnaires, surveys, exams and custom forms in any ASP.NET projects
  • XML definition provided for both surveys and responses.
  • Offers up to 6 different question types.
  • Grouping the survey questions in pages and wizard steps
  • Interactive AJAX Survey builder web control to build and design the surveys
  • Define mandatory/optional questions.
  • Define active start date, end date and survey maximum responses quota
  • Randomize question choices
  • Display question choices in columns and rows
  • Define maximum number of choices for multiple choice questions
  • Ensure users responses integrity/Prevent users to respond more than once
  • Survey statistics and responses tracking
  • Export responses to CSV file format
  • Skip Logic and Branching Rules for the questions
  • Attach Media files like images, audio and video to the questions
  • Show Progress Bar while the user answer the survey
  • Enable responding users to save the surveys and continue it in later time
  • Rich events and programming APIs to store the surveys and responses in databases
  • Create your custom look and feel for your surveys using custom CSS styles
  • CSS Optimized Theme to display the surveys in iPhone and Andriod handsets
  • Localize the web controls to your own language
  • Change web controls text, labels and default wording
  • Browsers: IE 7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari
  • Available for .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5

New Survey Builder Rich Server Control

Survey Form Builder


 

 

  

EASY SURVEY DESIGNER

The new release of Zodiac.NET has a great feature which will make creating surveys and questionnaires in website much easier.

A new rich web control - Zodiac.NET Survey Builder Web Control - has been added to Zodiac.NET in this release to help your website users to design their own surveys and questionnaires. They can easily edit and update the survey settings, add questions, define survey pages and steps.

The control uses AJAX and client scripting which make updating the survey details quick and simple. The new web control gives a great user experience while using it.

The control look and feel is fully controlled by custom CSS file which can be easily modified and used within your web application.

Branching & Skip Logic Rules

Control your questionnaire traffic by designing your own branching and skip logic rules. Zodiac.NET provides you with different branching options to control your questionnaire flow and deliver efficient questionnaires to your end users.

Zodiac.NET provides several branching operators which you can apply to the user answer like: Equal, Not Equal, Greater Than, Greater Than or Equal, Less Than, Less Than or Equal, In List and Custom Regex Expression. You can also define an exit criteria with disqualification comment to your end users.

The variety options provided by Zodiac.NET Branching feature will enable you to implement all the possible scenarios and flows you want to provide in your surveys and questionnaires.

 

Questionnaire Branching and Skip Logic Rules


 

 

 Statistics Reporting

Survey Statistics Reports

Zodiac.NET is shipped with two reporting web controls to display the statistics of the surveys and questionnaires. The web controls help you to display the survey responses, the survey general statistics and the survey questions statistics. In addition, you can easily change the style of the controls to match your website theme and style.

Customize Text, Labels and Wording with Your Own Language

Zodiac.NET will allow the software developers to change the default wording and text in engine web controls. The default language used in the engine web controls is Enlgish, however, you can change it to your own language using the new localization features. The default wording can be easily changed by modifying an external XML localization file containg the text and words used in the web controls. Zodiac.NET Standard License will be also shipped with localization files for several languages including: English, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Danish and Arabic. You can use the localization files as it is in your application or modify it to suite your sepecific requirements.

 

Screenshots

Mobile Enabled Surveys and Questionnaires

Zodiac.NET provides a new unique features which will help you to target your mobile users. Zodiac.NET can now display your designed surveys and questionnaires in the most popular mobile devices browsers like: iPhone and Android devices. The software package will contain a sample optimized CSS style sheet which you can use to display the surveys in web pages optimized for mobiles. You can also modify it to fit your brand style and theme.

Your users will be delighted with this feature. They will be able to display the survey and answer it on the go. This feature will give them better accessibility to answer the surveys on their mobiles. They don't need to check their PCs to answer the surveys. You just send them a link to an optimized mobile web page and they would be able to answer the survey. Their responses will be aggregated with the other responses of the surveys.

 

Zodiac.NET survey questionnaire mobile view display

Simple, Efficient and Productive

Zodiac.NET provides a collection of web controls to design and view the surveys to the end users. The surveys and responses will be generated as XML that can be saved in files or any other media. For example, you can fetch the XML of the designed survey or generated response and save it in your own database.

This diagram shows how Zodiac.NET handle the surveys data flow and the user interactions.

Zodiac.NET Chart

Supported Question Types

Zodiac.NET provides a diversity of question types to serve the different needs in creating surveys and questionnaires. The following table illustrate the details of the supported question types in Zodiac.NET

single choice question

Single Choice Questions

  • Define question body, remarks and footer text.
  • Unlimited number of text choices.
  • Render the choices as drop down list or radio buttons list.
  • Specify if the question is mandatory or not.
  • Allow the user to enter Other option if his choice is not in the list.
  • Randomize the choices.
multi choice question

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)

  • Define question body, remarks and footer text.
  • Unlimited number of text choices.
  • Specify if the question is mandatory or not.
  • Allow the user to enter Other option if his choice is not in the list.
  • Randomize the choices.
  • Display the choices in more than one column.
  • Define a maximum allowed number for the user choices.
matrix question

Matrix Questions

  • Define question body, remarks and footer text.
  • Unlimited number of vertical and horizontal criteria/ranking.
  • Specify if the question is mandatory or not.
  • Display the ranks/scales as drop down lists.
text question

Slider Questions

  • Define question body, remarks and footer text.
  • Interactive slider cursor to select a specific scale.
  • Define unlimited criteria/scales in the same question.
text question

Text Questions

  • Define question body, remarks and footer text.
  • Specify if the question is mandatory or not.
paragrpah question

Essay Questions

  • Define question body, remarks and footer text.
  • Specify if the question is mandatory or optional.

Zodiac.NET Survey Web Controls

Zodiac.NET is shipped with a collection of web controls which can be easily embedded in your ASP.NET pages. Zodiac.NET Web Controls gives all what you need to create survey/questionnaires based solutions. The web controls will help you design, respond and analyze the surveys.

Sample XML Files

Zodiac.NET Surveys and User Responses are both generated as XML. The following are sample XML used and generated by Zodiac.NET:

 

Fully Customized using CSS

All the web controls are fully customized using CSS style sheets. This means you can change the colors, fonts and size of the web controls elements to fit your site overall style. You can for example modify the CSS files of the survey viewer to fit the mobile screens like PDA, BlackBerry or iPhone.

The package contains 3 sample CSS style sheets so that you can easily modify and use inside your website.

  

CSS Customization

 

What types of surveys you can build using Zodiac.NET?

You can design almost any types of surveys and questionnaires using Zodiac.NET. Zodiac.NET will give you the dynamic and flexible features to make accurate, efficient and robust surveys and questionnaires that can met your business needs. The types of surveys that can be made using Zodiac.NET include:

  • Customer Satisfaction Surveys
  • Employee Satisfaction Surveys
  • Market Research Surveys
  • Social Research Surveys
  
  • Scientific Surveys
  • Educational Exams and Surveys
  • Business Research Surveys
  • Government and National Trends Surveys

Developers Guide

You're a developer who wants to use Zodiac.NET inside the web projects and solutions. The following guides will help you explore the technical specifications of the product and start using it.


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