Lua Scripting Resources

Important Update to Custom Scripting

SurveyGizmo's CustomScript Action now supports the LUA programming language.


Legacy Custom Scripting Language Deprecation Plans 

  1. New accounts (created after October 29, 2018) will only have the option to use Lua in scripts.
  2. As of October 29, 2018 Custom Scripting Actions will default to Lua as the scripting type in the Custom Scripting Action for accounts created before this date. You will be able to switch to the Legacy Custom Scripting; though we highly encourage using Lua.
  3. In the long term, Legacy Custom Scripting Actions will be switched to read-only. Read-only scripts will continue to function; you will just be prevented from editing. The exact date on this is to be determined; we will send notifications well ahead of time.


 Go to our Legacy Scripting Documentation.

While SurveyGizmo is one of the most flexible survey tools around, we get requests for customizations that are not available out of the box. This is where JavaScript and Custom Scripting can save the day. If you have scripting chops you can use the JavaScript action or the Custom Scripting action to achieve the survey of your dreams.


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The following functions will not have an analogous function in Lua.

sgapiArraySet
sgapiArrayGet
sgapiShuffle
sgapiArray_Pop
sgapiSort
sgapiASort
sgapiARSort
sgapiKSort
sgapiKRSort
sgapiRSort
sgapiArray_Multisort
sgapiMin
sgapiMax
sgapiPreg_Match
sgapiArrayPush
sgapiArrayShift
sgapiArraySplice

The following functions are new functions available for Lua

print
pairs
next
pcall
tonumber
tostring
type
unpack
string.byte
string.char
string.find
string.format
string.gmatch
string.gsub
string.len
string.lower
string.match
string.rep
string.reverse
string.sub
string.upper
table.insert
table.maxn
table.remove
table.sort
math.abs
math.acos
math.asin
math.atan
math.atan2
math.ceil
math.cos
math.cosh
math.deg
math.exp
math.floor
math.fmod
math.frexp
math.huge
math.ldexp
math.log
math.log10
math.max
math.min
math.modf
math.pi
math.pow
math.rad
math.random
math.sin
math.sinh
math.sqrt
math.tan
math.tanh
os.difftime
os.time
os.clock