When the Survey portlet is installed in Liferay Portal, the portlet can include a link to take the survey in maximized mode, or the portlet can embed the survey right in the portal. A Configure mode allows administrators to select what survey to show in the portlet, whether to show it embedded or full-page, and other options.
Starting with the Liferay 7 version of the ViewsFlash survey portlet, it is possible to deploy the ViewsFlash application in a separate server cluster, and the lightweight Survey portlet in Liferay. This reduces the CPU and memory requirements on the Liferay servers and isolates failures.
Before Liferay 7, installation was simply dropping a war file into the deploy directory. In LIferay 7, a war file is deployed to the app server as a traditional web applcation, separately from Liferay, and an osgi portlet jar file is dropped into the deploy directory.
Once deployed, define the Permissions for the Survey Portlet, granting Power Users or Adminisrators permissions for Configuration and Add to Page permissions, and Users the View permission.
Add the Survey portlet to a page. When accessing that portlet as an Administrator, the Configure link allows the administrator to select which survey visitors will take.
After installation, the portlet is already configured with sample surveys to get you started.