Add on Modules Overview

Add-on modules are additional parts of the Forsta Plus software. These modules must be activated by the Forsta Plus server administrator before they will be available for the Software Administrator to assign to individual users/companies. Forsta Plus includes a system for administrating access to Add-ons.

Note: Some of the Add-on modules are chargeable items, and some are only available to SaaS customers. Contact Forsta for details.

Note: Some of the Add-on modules are visible to Forsta Plus users even if they are not activated. However if a user tries to enter one of those modules, a message will appear saying that the user does not have access. Some Add-on modules are not displayed if the users do not have access to them.

The Add-on modules that are currently available are:

• Basic Panel – functionality to run and maintain panels and panelists in Forsta Plus.
• CAPI – gives access to the CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) functionality. See the CAPI/Kiosk User Guide for a detailed description of the functionality.
• CATI - gives access to the CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interview) functionality. See the CATI User Guide for a detailed description of the functionality.
• Code Completion - enables the code-completion functionality for scripting in Authoring and Reportal. Refer to the Authoring and Reportal User Guides for further details.
• Community Panel – gives access to the Community Panel functionality.
• Community Snapshot Panel - for Community Panels, enables the user to take regular snapshots of the panel data. The add-on allows a new Community Snapshot panel, and a rule that transfers the data from the panel to the snapshot panel, to be created,
• Concurrent Sampling - for Community Panels, enables the user to multiple sampling jobs and execute them simultaneously. Scarce resources will then be allocated fairly across all the selected jobs. Refer to the Community Panels User Guide for further details.
• Database design – allows you to set up of tables and table structures that can be used as answer lists in single questions in Forsta surveys. Advantages are the possibility to maintain answer lists outside Forsta Plus (for use in several projects) and the possibility to define parent-child structures with any number of sub levels.
• Database Encryption - delivers support for project-level encryption for the production survey database (data-at-rest encryption) (go to Database Encryption Add-on for more information).
• Data Processing - allows the user access to the Data Processing functionality. This includes the Data Processing menu (refer to the Authoring User Guide for further details).
• Dedicated IP – gives access to the Dedicated IP functionality (go to Company Details Overview for more information).
• Domain keys – allows e-mail providers to verify both the domain of each e-mail sender and the integrity of the messages sent (i.e. that they were not altered during transit). If the function is used, it will reduce the chance that your emails are interpreted as spam.
• Email delivery report – is implemented on company-wide level, and forces all users in that company to use the predefined domain in the “From” field when sending out e-mails from Forsta Plus. For example, on the Forsta ASPs this domain is set to "us.confirmit.com" (US ASP) or "euro.confirmit.com" (UK ASP). In addition to improving deliverability, this also allows access to the Email Delivery Report giving full visibility into the status of the e-mail send-outs from Forsta Plus.
• File Library – gives access to functionality where Forsta Plus users are allocated their own domain to store files. See the Authoring User Guide for a detailed description of the functionality.

• Fixed sender domain – gives access to the corresponding functionality (go to Company Details Overview for more information).
• FTP for file transfer – data transfer through File Transfer Protocol.
• Kiosk – gives access to the Kiosk functionality. See the CAPI/Kiosk documentation for a detailed description of this functionality.
• Legacy Reporting - to reduce support, training, documentation, QA, and maintenance, the "legacy" Reporting functionality is now supplied as an add-on. For new customers, the functionality is included in other areas of the application.
• Multi code data export – allows the export of code data for multi questions.
• NonPredictive Telephony - CATI add-on. See the CATI User Guide for a detailed description of the functionality.
• Online coding – functionality for coding answers to open text questions and “Other, specify” answers into the answer list of a multi question. This gives more possibilities within reporting of these data.
• PGP Encryption – encrypted data delivery. To make use of this the server must be set up with PGP Encryption. Note that an encryption key must be entered for all users that should be able to use and receive encrypted data (go to Accounts Overview for more information).
• Predictive Telephoney - CATI add-on. See the CATI User Guide for a detailed description of the functionality.
• Questionnaire Reviewer – gives access to the Questionnaire Reviewer functionality. This enables Forsta Plus authors to allow third-parties access to a limited part of Forsta Plus so the third-parties can review and make minor changes to questionnaires.
• Random Data Generator – allows users to create more than 50 responses in the Random Data Generator functionality. See the Authoring User Guide for a detailed description of the functionality.
• Reportal – provides access to the Reportal functionality. See also the two add-ons below.
• Reportal Public Access – allows Reportal reports to be defined as public, and an open link can be sent to Viewers/End users.
• Reportal Report Export – allows the export of entire Excel and PPT reports from Reportal. The users will also be able to give report Viewers and Designers rights to export a certain number of reports.
• Sample Only - allows the user to upload links to an external survey. On each job, a new option is available; "External survey links" which allows you to upload a repository of unique links to an external survey. The links will be added to the Sample file and can be uploaded to a Forsta Plus project that handles the status and redirecting for the Sample Only job.
• Single Sign On – provides access to the Single-sign-on functionality which allows user’s to re-use their local logon credentials when logging on to Forsta Plus.
• Spell checker – functionality for spell-checking text in questions, answer lists, information nodes etc.
• Survey Router - enables you to gather surveys in a group, and if the situation arises where a respondent cannot complete the survey he/she is initially allocated to (due to screening or quotas), then the respondent can be moved seamlessly onto another survey in the group.

• Translator – functionality for administrating the translation of multilingual projects with several translators working outside authoring.