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Only sites specifically configured to support HTTPS will be able to do so. On a site supporting HTTPS, users may connect using HTTPS or HTTP.
It is possible to enforce policies where only HTTPS is accepted. This can be set at site and/or company level, the priority being Site, Company, User. Any level can select to use HTTPS, but if a higher level is set to use it then it will be enforced for all lower levels.
If your company became a user of Forsta Plus after January 31st, 2016, your user account is set up by default with HTTPS enforced for surveys.
When sending emails, the option Include link > Secure is available (disabled until you check "Include link"). When this is checked, the URLs that are included in the emails will use https:// instead of http://. If you want the URL in the middle of the mail text, use the primitive ^secureslink^ (equivalent to ^slink^).
When you refer on your survey pages to images from non-secure sites, the respondent will be presented with a warning on every page: "This page contains both secure and non-secure items. Do you want to display the non-secure items?" To avoid this, the images must also be placed on a secure site.
Forsta has developed the File Library functionality (go to File Libary Overview for more information), where you can store the images that you want to use in your surveys. The File Library allows you to upload, store, view and remove images in a number of web-compatible formats (go to Limitations for more information).
Object Security
A survey, a question, a report – these are all objects inside Confirmit’s powerful object oriented database. For each object, specific permissions can be set up, including read and write permissions.
When you initiate a new survey (object) inside Authoring, the survey is by default only visible to you because no one else has read or write permissions. However, you may specify that other users or groups of users should have these permissions.