# Surveys Plugin documentation?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** surveys
**Created:** [November 16, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310 "2021-11-16T16:08:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Nick\_Chomey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nick_Chomey)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/1 "2021-11-16T16:08:05Z")
I installed the Surveys plugin from the Discourse repo ( [discourse/discourse-surveys (github.com)](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-surveys/)) but can’t figure out how to actually use it. There also doesn’t appear to be any documentation for it here on Meta.
Any tips?
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### Author:  [@IAmGav](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IAmGav)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/2 "2021-11-16T17:39:36Z")
@techAPJ can you shed some light on this plugin please 🙂
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/3 "2021-11-17T14:42:32Z")
The Surveys plugin was written for a customer with their specific use case in mind. I do not have a documentation handy. Will try to write one next week.
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### Author:  [@Nick\_Chomey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nick_Chomey)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/4 "2021-11-17T14:43:25Z")
@techAPJ Thanks! Could you at least point out how I can even use it? Is there a particular button, menu, markdown code, etc… that allows you to use it? I can’t find anything to even tinker with.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/5 "2021-11-17T14:45:12Z")
Here’s a basic survey markdown with all available fields:
```plaintext
[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]
```
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### Author:  [@Nick\_Chomey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nick_Chomey)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/6 "2021-11-17T14:49:34Z")
Thanks! Very cool!
Where can I see the results? The survey creator (an admin user) only sees the following after submission by a couple users.
It would also be useful if survey responders could see the results as well.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/7 "2021-11-17T14:51:58Z")
Currently there is no interface to view survey results. I did write some [data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) queries to view survey results. I’ll dig those up and post them along with documentation sometime next week.
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### Author:  [@Nick\_Chomey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nick_Chomey)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/8 "2021-11-17T14:55:39Z")
ah ok. Thanks. I look forward to seeing the docs! Moreover, if you’re ever able to create some sort of front-end display/interface, that would be fantastic! Until then, I suspect I and most people will have to stick to Polls
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/9 "2021-11-17T18:23:09Z")
You can also use the [Custom Wizard plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-wizard-plugin/73345) for surveys plus more.
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### Author:  [@Nick\_Chomey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nick_Chomey)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 7:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/10 "2021-11-17T19:04:42Z")
Woah, i had no idea that existed. That looks very cool. Its not clear to me how this would provide survey capabilities, but I could definitely make use of it for other things.
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/11 "2021-11-17T20:00:00Z")
You simply use it to ask questions, with most HTML survey stuff supported. The data is collected nicely as a .csv that you can then mess with as much as you like. You can force it upon users (if you wish) or target it nicely.
There is quite a learning curve though.
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### Author:  [@Nick\_Chomey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nick_Chomey)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/12 "2021-11-17T21:13:52Z")
Thanks very much. I’ll put it on the backburner for now, but good to know it exists!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2021, 10:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surveys-plugin-documentation/209310/14 "2021-12-18T10:47:42Z")
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