I agree with all, CUSTOM FIELDS are the answer.
Before you create them, I do recommend the following:
- Get input from all the onsite coordinators about what questions they'd like to be asked
- Get input from your higher-level stakeholders about what questions they'd like asked
- Collate the info and send it to all of them confirming that "these are the custom fields we'll create"
- For some custom fields, you may be able to limit input with discrete options, like checking the box to say "Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree"
When I think "survey," I try to keep things to quantifiable, reportable data. If you have just a bunch of text fields, it will be IMPOSSIBLE to get through. What you want is for most items, a "select from the following choices" kind of list.
Also have a couple of text fields for comments, i.e. "Comments about sleeping rooms," "Comments about conference rooms," etc. Minimal comment boxes to gather data you aren't collecting in a systematic, easy-to-report-on way in your other custom questions.
Survey Monkey, Survey Gizmo, and a few other platforms have some survey best practices and examples of multiple-choice, stack-ranking, stack-ranked matrix questions, etc., to help you create a series of custom fields that will give solid, easy-to-quantify data.
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Brenda Ainsburg
Channel Program Manager
brenda.ainsburg@siemens.comSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-13-2020 08:50
From: Maribeth Bluyus
Subject: Post Event Reports
Hoping to leverage Cvent so our onsite coordinators don't have to fill out a "Post Event Report" in excel after each event. Has anyone done anything like this? The report (template attached) currently has event data (# registered, # attended) which is easy to pull onto a report. But it also captures notes about the event venue (F&B & AV, attendee comments) and other qualitative information that helps us when we are booking in the same area. I'd love to have it all in cvent so we can just pull a report when needed vs saving reports in multiples folders across our shared drive. Thoughts or examples?
Thank you!
#ReportingandInsights
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Maribeth Bluyus
Edelman Financial Engines
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