1. Release Notes
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  3. Feasibility surveys

Feasibility surveys

Multiple feasibility survey enhancements include improved question scoring, submission response download, and more

Submission response download

Using a new Download PDF link in the survey response modal, Oracle Site Select users can now download survey submission questions and responses to PDF for any selected survey version. We also made a minor labeling update in the survey response modal to change the "Done" button to "Close."

Feasibility survey response modal with new Download PDF link and relabeled

EPIC: SEL-15561

Question scoring

With this release, Oracle Site Select users can now mark specific scorable feasibility survey questions as scored. On the Score survey questions page, a new Scored check-box defaults to enabled and checked for all scorable questions. Users can uncheck the box as preferred. If unchecked, Oracle Site Select displays the following helper text: "This scoreable question is marked as not scored. To make it scoreable enable to "scored" option."

We also removed the requirement that users specify a Category before saving changes to the Score survey questions page.

Users can now optionally export only those questions marked as scored. Users will see a new "Only export questions marked scored" check box at the upper right on the Score survey questions page. This new option is checked by default; users can uncheck it as preferred. If unchecked and a user runs an export, then questions that are Not scoreable and questions that have the “scored” check box unchecked will be exported to the Microsoft Excel file and the output will be “Not scored” for those questions. The "scored" questions will output as expected.

Feasibility survey scored question check boxes and scored question export option

EPIC: SEL-14956

Configuration export output

With release 23.2, we made the following usability improvements to the feasibility survey configuration export:

  • The "Is critical" column is relabeled to "Critical response."
  • When a feasibility survey question is critical, the export now populates the corresponding question response cell with the response instead of "critical."

The Export to XLSX feature is also enhanced to include a new "Export questions as rows" check box option. When checked, Oracle Site Select generates the report in a transposed format, with questions as rows and "Survey scoring," "Critical response," and "Category" as columns in the exported file.

Export questions as rows check box

EPIC: SEL-14956

Feasibility survey results export

We enhanced the feasibility survey results extract, accessed from the Step 3 or 4 site grid, Survey analysis subtab, to make it easier for users to see critical survey responses. Extracts now include a fixed column called "Critical responses" that outputs the responses answered critically for both CSV and Microsoft Excel exports. Critically answered questions not marked as "scored" in the survey scoring configuration will not be included in Critical responses. In Excel exports, the cell corresponding to the critical response(s) now has a red background.

EPIC: SEL-14956

HTML character removal

With release 23.2, we removed special characters (HTML) from the feasibility survey scoring configuration and feasibility survey response exports to make the exports easier to read. For both exports, column headers no longer include HTML characters for font decoration, formatting, or paragraph alignment. We also removed HTML characters from question response rows for the feasibility survey response export.

Column headers and response rows will support basic styling as follows:

  • paragraph and line breaks
  • numbered lists display but are not indented/formatted exactly the same as in the survey
  • bulleted lists display but are not indented/formatted exactly the same as in the survey. Bullets display as an asterisk

Note:

Microsoft Excel renders some special characters incorrectly in UTF-8 compliant CSV files that contain non-English characters. This issue is specific to Microsoft Excel issue; the file content displays correctly in LibreOffice Calc (Ubuntu). The workaround for this issue is as follows:

  1. Open the CSV file using Notepad.
  2. Click File -->Save As.
  3. In the dialog window that appears, select ANSI from the Encoding field. Click Save.
  4. Open this new CSV file using Microsoft Excel. Non-English characters display correctly.

EPIC: SEL-14956

Feasibility survey submission message

In this release, we added a new "Survey submission message" text input section to the feasibility survey configuration page. The new section includes the following default submission message text:

"Feasibility survey successfully completed.

Your response is being processed. The CRO/sponsor will evaluate your survey and contact you if they have any questions.

Logging into this study management tool provides additional functionality:

  • Faster communication with your CRO / Sponsor
  • Create a site profile and gain access to additional studies
  • Access your library of signed documents"

Survey managers can optionally customize the submission message as preferred so the message displayed to site users is unique to the survey. The new text input section supports standard text formatting options (e.g., emphasis, alignment, bullets, and numbering).

Survey submission message text input field

EPIC: SEL-15402

Percentage type survey questions

In release 23.1.1 we enhanced reporting views to include feasibility survey questions and responses for Alchemer percentage type questions. Please note that Percentage type question response data has not been backfilled on survey responses prior to the 23.1.1 release. Additionally, the percentage response provided by the site will now populate the “survey_question_question_choice_answer” data field in the reporting view.

EPIC: Not applicable - Clarification note

Parent topic: What's new