The new version 21.01 brings the following new features:

1. Isolation of work into workspaces;
2. Server-wide users management page;
3. Map dashboard for online users;
4. Other changes.

Isolation of work into workspaces

This feature is the response of the Survey Solutions developers team to frequent requests of the users to separate different data collection operations to limit access to data for the users that manage the surveys. This is common for organizations that conduct multiple operations, often in several locations or countries, cooperate with different partners and/or have to outsource work to different subcontractors.

Recall that the HQ-users have access to all the data that is collected as part of any survey that is being conducted on the server. This gives any HQ-user to intervene in any survey by making new assignments, or making approval/rejection decisions, and importantly, exporting/downloading the data. Until now the only way of making the isolation was to instantiate multiple Survey Solutions data servers, which was costly and required multiple administrator accounts to coordinate the work of multiple servers.

Over the last year we have had extensive discussions with users setting up their servers and facing the above problem. As a result, we are introducing a new concept of a workspace into the Survey Solutions, which, we hope, will help in this regard.

Workspaces allow partitioning of a single server into multiple compartments that have limited impact on each other.

The following are the rules guiding the use and functioning of the workspaces:

1. An administrator has access to all workspaces.
2. A user with an HQ and observer accounts may belong to one, some, or all workspaces, as designated by the administrator.
3. Each interviewer and supervisor account may log in to a single workspace.
4. User names are unique across all workspaces.
5. Questionnaires are imported into workspaces. Same questionnaire may be imported into different workspaces if necessary and their version numbering is independent.
6. Workspaces may be created, disabled, and deleted.
7. Disabling a workspace locks all activity in the workspace (stops web interviews, does not allow any user to log in). Users attempting to access a disabled workspace will receive a “Workspace Disabled” error page and must contact their survey coordinator for further instructions.
8. A workspace may be deleted only if it doesn’t have any surveys/questionnaires.
9. Deleting a workspace actually deletes (not archives) all the user accounts (interviewer/ supervisor) and all the maps that were part of that workspace.
10. Deletion of a workspace is irreversible.
11. Administrator configures each workspace settings separately (logo, global message, export password, email providers, etc).
12. The troubleshooting tools available for administrator (audit log, device logs, tablet information packages, etc) are separated by workspaces.
13. Users having access to multiple workspaces may switch between them using a workspace selector without the need to log in to each workspace separately.
14. Reports are built based on the content of a single workspace.
15. A special workspace named ‘primary’ is always defined and can not be disabled or deleted. Any server updated from earlier Survey Solutions versions will place all the earlier entered data (including survey data, user accounts, maps, etc) into the primary workspace.
16. An observer may observe only in the workspaces in which he is permitted by the administrator, even if impersonating users that have access to other workspaces.

Each workspace is assigned an identifier and a text label. The text label is shown to the users when they switch between the workspaces, while the identifier is used for forming the URLs in API calls.

To manage workspaces, the menu item server administration (available for administrators only) now leads to the list of the workspaces defined on the server. The settings and troubleshooting tools collected in the context menu were previously relevant for the whole server, but now are attributable to a particular workspace. For each enabled workspace the following actions are provided in the workspace context menu:

• Edit,
• Settings,
• Email providers,
• Device logs,
• Audit log,
• Tablet information packages,
• Disable*
• Delete*

*) The actions to disable and delete a workspace do not apply to the primary workspace.

Disabled workspaces may only be turned back on or deleted, so their context menu is smaller:

• Enable
• Delete

The workspaces is a major change to the earlier established hierarchies and rules, and we continue to build functionality around this new concept. We have attempted to make as smooth as possible transition for our existing users, and hope you will make good use of this new capability.

Server-wide users management page for administrator

Since the account names are unique on the server, the admin needs a consolidated view of all user accounts, regardless in which workspace they are defined. This is implemented in the Users Management menu of the server administration view. For each user account defined in the server the following information is listed:

• account name (login)
• role
• workspace(s)
• full name
• email
• phone number

A padlock icon located next to the user account indicates that this account has been locked (e.g. an interviewer account locked by his supervisor).

The filters in the left side of the page allow to concentrate only on users with particular attributes: locked, archived, ones without assigned workspaces, or being placed in disabled workspaces.

In this list the administrator may access the profile of every individual user (except archived ones) to correct the contact information, reset the password or grant access to workspaces for HQ-users, observers, and API accounts.

Map dashboard for online users.

The new map dashboard feature introduced in Survey Solutions v21.01 is a tool for a graphical presentation of the worklist on a map and provides functionality similar to the tablet map dashboard added in v20.07 to the Interviewer App.

It is accessible to interviewers through the menu item Map Dashboard and for managers (supervisors/HQ-users/Admins) via a map icon at the pages showing assignments or interviews.

The map dashboard is not to be confused with the earlier available map report. Here are some important differences:

Similar to the map report, the map dashboard will reflect multiple points located closely together as a cluster, reflecting the number of such points on the cluster. To see individual points, zoom in to the cluster to see individual points.

Other changes

• a Czech translation has been included for the Interviewer App; users whose tablets are set up with preference for the Czech interface will find the Survey Solutions Interviewer App in the Czech language immediately after the update. Other users may switch the language in the language settings of the OS Android.
• Users of graphql API interface are notified of the changes to the graphql schema and the location of the graphql schema. Please, refresh your graphql schema from https://demo.mysurvey.solutions/graphql?sdl (or the equivalent page at your server).