Sir,
Please, any pointers to technical documentation will be highly appreciated.
Is there a "case" article somewhere? How within the SiteCatalyst do a survey on a portal?
Already tried Google. Comes up with lots of old things of little value.
PS : I'm the technical responsable person on the project - so please, no pointers to manager-summary-level, catchy oneliners overview.
Best regards
Stig
Hello again,
I'll try to answer my own question.
Having a look at fx. :
http://blog.questionpro.com/2009/05/08/how_to_combine_web_analytics_d_1/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/businesscatalyst/articles/creating_a_survey.html
I found a basic approach for making a surveys, which should be something like :
- create a web page with an absolute maximum of 50 questions (slightly less, actually). For most part, the questions could be multiple-choice radio buttons, each having no more than 100 bytes of response length value.
- the so called "Web form builder" would appear to be just an "over-userfriendly" html editor, which hides all the basic html from you. I failed to find any real documentation on it, so it might just as well be better to code the html yourself. Creating your own html submit form should equally do the job.
- on submit, goto another page "Thank you for participating in the survey"
and here you propogate the values for each question into an appropriate number of property variables, prop1, prop2, .... which is subsequently transmitted to the Omniture
website
<script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[
/* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on
the next lines. */
s.pageName="my survey"
s.server="my server"
s.channel="my channel"
s.pageType="my type"
s.prop1=s.getQueryParam('question1');
s.prop2=s.getQueryParam('question2');
s.prop3=s.getQueryParam('question3');
s.prop4=s.getQueryParam('question4');
s.prop5=s.getQueryParam('question5');
...
/************* DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE ! **************/
s.t()//]]></script>
using the scode.js. Then the information should be sent appropriately to Omniture.
Drawbacks are : 1) max 50 questions and 2) max 100 byte limitations. Also there is no generic handling of questions. Even though you may have 30 pieces of similar yes/no questions, you need to handle each question response individually, adding appropriate code for each, proporating their values to the Omniture statistics server.
Comments always welcome, naturally. Just grasping to piece things together.
Thanks from here and all the best to everybody,
Stig
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You're using a sledgehammer to clean a window. Completely the wrong tool for the job. SiteCatalyst isn't designed to handle surveys.
I suggest you sign up for Omniture Survey, which IS specifically designed for the job you're trying to do. Ask your Omniture account manager about it.
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Sir,
Thanks for pointing out the wrong direction!
>You're using a sledgehammer to clean a window.
>Completely the wrong tool for >the job.
>SiteCatalyst isn't designed to handle surveys.
>I suggest you sign up for Omniture Survey,
>which IS specifically designed for
>the job you're trying to do. Ask your
>Omniture account manager about it.
Got it. The manager paid for it. Appearently months ago. I'm in a _big_ company, so the path to the account manager is slightly long. I'm just the guy on the floor responsable for the technical side.
Still having failed to find documentation or locating a 'wizard', it appeared to be handled through SiteCatalyst. But, I will then continue my quest for documentation and eventually report my findings here.
All the best to everybody,
Stig
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