This page contains optional features that are used for designing questions of various types.
You can use HTML while composing your questions
If you create questions in a simple mode you can use HTML for custom text appearance.
If you need to apply advanced text editing or add links and graphics to your text click the Toggle WYSIWYG Editor button.
You can also easily insert custom link so respondents can review their results before submit the survey. Highlight the text you want to appear as such link and click the Review Link option from the editor. For more details consult the Review Answers Before Submit help chapter.
Advanced showing or hiding answers options
Using this option you can show or hide answer choices of particular questions depending on the respondent's answers to the previous questions.
- Choose "Show if/Hide if" next to the answer choice you want to show or hide.
- Input the condition based on which answers will be shown or hidden in Qx, Qx.Ay or Qx.Ay.Cz format.
Autocomplete feature allows you faster and easier enter logic expressions. After entering Q, Qx.A or Qx.Ay.C system will show you the list of available questions, answer options or answer columns (for 'Rate' and '3D Matrix' questions) accordingly. Picked element will be substituted by its sequence number within the survey.
- You can refer to the preceding questions only.
- It is not recommended to make questions where 'Show if/Hide if' option is activated mandatory or set up number of rows respondents must choose.
- If setting up number of answer choices respondent must answer is neccessary, make sure this number does not exceed number of answer choices that will be shown to respondents.
Selecting a set of predefined answer choices
In this case the answers will be automatically ranked and displayed in the corresponding lines. For example, the 'Agree - Disagree' will look as follows:
Strongly Agree
Agree
I don't know
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
Note that this feature is available for 'Pick One or 'Other'' and 'Dropdown Box' question types.
Setting a certain number of answers to select
You can set a certain number of answers for the respondent to check in the corresponding check box selecting the following options from the drop-down box:
- More than or equal to [#] answer choices
- Less than or equal to [#] answer choices
- Between [#] and [#] answer choices
- Equal to [#] answer choices
Note that this feature is available for 'Check All That Apply' and 'List Box' question types.
Use the 'Select answer order' drop-down box to select the answer order:
- Choose 'Do not change order' if you want the answers to always be displayed in the same order.
- Choose 'Rotate answers' to make the answers rotate random row each time a different respondent takes your survey.
- Choose 'Randomize answers' if you want the answers
to be displayed in random order.
Note that this advanced feature works properly if there a lot of answer choices in the question. - If you need to display your items in alphabetic order, choose 'Sort ascending' or 'Sort descending'.
Stick If changing default answers' order you can use 'Stick' option to hold answer choices on their positions. Selected answer choices will not be rotated, randomized or sorted.
Note that this feature is available for 'Pick One or 'Other'', 'Check All That Apply', 'Dropdown Box', 'List Box', 'Single Line Text with Pre-Format Option', 'Rate Different Items Along the Scale of Your Choice', '3D Matrix' and 'Numeric Allocation' question types.
To change answers layout use one of the following options:
- Select the 'Down' option to show your answers up and down.
- Select the 'Across' option to show your answers left to right.
Note that if you select the 'Across' layout you can set an interval (from very small to huge) between answer choices using the 'Spacing' drop-down box.
Note that this feature is available for 'Pick One or 'Other'', 'Check All That Apply', 'Single Line Text with Pre-Format Option' question types only.
Specifying how the respondent must answer
Use the corresponding options to do it:
- Select 'Answer any rows' if you wish to allow your respondents to decide whether to rate a certain item or not.
- Select 'Must answer all rows' if you wish your respondents to rate all the listed items.
- Select 'Must answer N rows' if you wish to allow your respondents to rate not less than N items among the listed ones.
Note that this feature is available for the 'Rate Different Items Along the Scale of Your Choice' question type only.
Question Analysis Code for the export functionality
Using the Question Analysis Code utility, you can specify the analysis code on Surveys > Questions > Single Question page, and then export it into XML, Excel, CSV for the statistic analysis purposes. For example, to track the responses for questions with the same code across different surveys.
Note, this is an advanced feature and is availble for all question types.