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Questions and Answers about Perseus Survey Solutions XP

• What is perseus?

  Perseus Survey Solutions is a tool that can be used to easily develop sophisticated on-line surveys without the need to learn complex HTML or Perl programming. You use software on you computer to create the survey, similar to using a word processor. You then publish your survey to a web page, and use tools UVM provides to collect and analyze the data.

• Will it run on my computer?

  Perseus will run on any computer running Windows 98, NT4 (SP6+), ME, 2000, or XP. If you have a Macintosh, you will need to purchase VMWare Fusion or Parallels first (contact ETS Client Services to see if this is a reasonable option).

• Why did UVM purchase a program that doesn't run on Macintoshes?

  None of the competitors had products for the Macintosh platform either. There was no choice, unfortunately.

• Is it free?

  ETS purchased a multi-user license for Perseus Survey Solutions XP The purchase included a Web-based data portal to make the data able to be shared and analyzed by others. So yes, it is free for you.

• How do I learn to use it? Where do I go for help?

  Please submit a support request by calling the Help Line at 656-2604, or online.

• What do the surveys look like?

  Here is an example survey.

• How exactly do I get started?
  • Contact the Perseus team by calling the Help Line at 656-2604, or online to discuss your data gathering needs.
  • Request that a Perseus account be set up for you
  • Download and configure ODBC mySQL connection to your database http://www.perseus.com/customersupp/mysql%20odbc.htm
  • Download and install Perseus Survey Solutions desktop software.
    
    • Windows ME, 2000, XP
      http://download.perseus.com/setup_ssxp_nomdac.exe
    • Windows 95, 98, NT4(SP6+)
      http://download.perseus.com/setup_ssxp.exe
    • license numbers will be given to you by the Perseus team
  • Access to your data can be managed from https://scripts.uvm.edu/perseus-bin/pdcportal5.pl
  • Before considering this solution, please contact the Perseus support team to discuss your needs.
  • Create your survey using Perseus desktop software.
  • Test the survey once you are ready, by entering sample data (the first time you submit, a table will be created to receive the data).
  • Connect to the Enterprise database using Perseus (you will see your test data).
  • Place the survey html file where people will be able to get to it (chmod).
  • Connect to Enterprise data using Perseus and build your report (presentation).

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Last modified August 15 2008 03:34 PM