The Discourse Surveys Plugin allows you to create surveys directly within your Discourse forum posts using simple Markdown syntax. The plugin currently supports a variety of question types such as radio buttons, checkboxes, dropdowns, number inputs, text areas, star ratings, and thumbs up/down ratings.
Basic Survey Markdown
Here is a basic example of survey Markdown including all available fields:
[survey name="awesome-survey-thumbs" title="Awesome Survey"]
[radio question="Choose any one option:"]
- cat
- dog
[/radio]
[checkbox question="Choose multiple options:"]
- red
- blue
- green
[/checkbox]
[dropdown question="Gender:"]
- Male
- Female
[/dropdown]
[number question="Rate this survey from 1 to 10:"]
[/number]
[textarea question="What is your feedback about xyz?" required="false"]
[/textarea]
[star question="How would you rate overall experience?"]
[/star]
[thumbs question="Were you satisfied with our services?"]
[/thumbs]
[/survey]
Survey Rendering
Below is an example of how the above Markdown renders in Discourse:
Currently, this plugin does not have any backend UX to view the survey results directly. Instead, you can rely on Data Explorer queries to fetch and analyze survey responses. Here is an example query:
-- [params]
-- text :survey_name = survey
SELECT s.id, s.name, s.post_id, sf.question, COALESCE(sr.value, sfo.html) AS value, sr.user_id, sr.created_at as responded_at
FROM surveys s
JOIN survey_fields sf ON sf.survey_id = s.id
JOIN survey_responses sr ON sr.survey_field_id = sf.id
LEFT JOIN survey_field_options sfo ON sfo.id = sr.survey_field_option_id
WHERE s.name = :survey_name
ORDER BY s.id DESC
Future Scope
The plugin has potential for many improvements. Feel free to join the discussion, and submit pull requests on the pluginās repository.
Could this be presented at the topics page, so that the users can rate topics with it? Once installed, I donāt see any settings, other than the āEnableā checkbox.
Thanks, but I need users to rate 1-5 instead of vote up/down. Thereās also the Topics Rating Plugin, but it requires users to click into the topic and rate inside the composer.
