After the user clicks the Submit button on the web survey, the entered responses are placed in an email and sent to your designated email address that you specified when your web survey page was created.

The e-mails with the survey responses are typically placed in a separate folder rather than mixed with other emails in the Outlook or Outlook Express Inbox. WISCO Survey can then extract the survey responses from the body of the email and import the information directly into the database for analysis and charting.

Click the selection tab to display the email drop table, and instructions for dragging and dropping the selected emails from your email client program to the WISCO Survey software.

1. Open your email client program (Outlook or Outlook Express).
2. Drag and drop the selected emails from the email client program to the email drop table in WISCO Survey. If the WISCO Survey screen remains hidden by your email client program, drag the selected emails to the WISCO Survey button on the task bar. WISCO Survey will come to the top, and you can continue the drag to the email drop table, then release the left mouse button to populate the table.
3. Select (highlight) the survey emails to add to the DBF database. . You can select one email by clicking a single email in the table. You can select a multiple emails by clicking the first email and then either holding down the Control or Shift key while clicking the left mouse button to select multiple emails.
4. Click the Save button.

Create a separate folder in Outlook or Outlook Express that will only contain the responses to this survey. Other folders can be created for future surveys. When the email is received by the recipient, it can be moved to that folder. Message rules (for example, matching the subject) could also be set up to move the email to the survey folder automatically. Drag and Drop the emails from your email program to the WISCO Survey Power Program.

After selecting the emails that you want to drag - drag to the WISCO Survey button on the Task Bar. As you hold the mouse cursor over the top of the WISCO Survey button, WISCO Survey will come to the front, and you can complete the drag-and-drop.

When the screen is displayed, select the folder containing the web surveys. All emails in the selected folder will be displayed. The listing will show the sender's email address, recipient's email address, subject, and the date received. Click on an email. The complete email can be viewed by clicking the View Selected Email tab. To add the selected email responses to the database, click the Save button. Continue by clicking on the next email to verify the matches, and then click the Save button to add the set of responses from each email to the database.

You can also select more than one survey at a time. For example, click on the first survey to highlight that survey, scroll to the bottom of the list of emails, and click on the bottom email while holding down the shift key, highlighting all the emails. Clicking the save button once would add all of the highlighted emails to the database.

When you are done recording this batch of emails, go to your email program, and move these recorded surveys to a different folder so you don't accidentally record these responses twice.

If dates submitted in the email are not valid for date entry questions, the dates will be ignored when adding to responses to the survey database.

Clicking the View Processed E-Mail tab will display the survey responses of the selected e-mail.

A log file can be created indicating problems with the data that was submitted, and how the problem was handled. The survey program tries to make intelligent guesses from the entered data. In some case the data is altered (for example, the user submits a decimal number, and your settings indicate to not use a decimal number, the software will truncating a decimal number), in other cases, the bad response is not added to your database. This log file information can also be saved to a text file and printed.

Clicking the Clean Up Listing button will remove the surveys in the current listing that were just recorded.

Clicking the Save button automatically adds the highlighted survey response emails to the database file.

Clicking the Help button will display this help file information.

Clicking the OK button will leave this screen, returning to the opening program screen.