Optional Features

If you create questions in a simple mode you can use HTML for custom text appearance. You can also pipe information using the [Fx] tags if you prepopulate your survey using the Autofill feature

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.

Note: You must turn WYSIWYG editor off to use the HTML tags.

In addition to the WYSIWYG editor mode for the question text you can switch to the Rich Text mode while creating question answer choices. This allows you to customize text appearance: make text bold, italic or underlined, insert hypelinks and custom application tags.

Yo can insert the following tags by clicking the tools icon next to the appropriate answer option:

• Subheader - parts out the answer choice and makes it to be the header of answer choices listed below. <more>
• New Column - if your question contains the long list of answer options, you can break the list into multiple columns. Insert this tag into the answer option that you want to place in a new column.
• Quota - you can set the quota for particular answer choice and set the number of responses before the quota is met, overquota responses will be treated as not submitted (In Progress) <more>
• Block - is used along with the Quota option. If both are put together for the same question, the survey will become inactive once the number of respondents who select the answer with the quota reaches indicated number. <more>
• Default - this option is used for the Accessible Surveys to auto-select the answer options on behalf of respondents.
• Language Selection - if you design a Multilingual survey, use this option for the language selection question.

Note: If you want to use the HTML tags, switch to the Standard input mode.

Using this option you can show or hide answer choices of particular questions depending on the respondent's answers to the previous questions.
For details on using this feature, consult the Advanced Show/Hide help chapter.

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: This feature is available for 'Pick One or 'Other'' and 'Dropdown Box' question types.

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: This 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 the Stick option to keep answer choices on their positions. Selected answer choices will not be rotated, randomized or sorted.

Note: 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: 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: This feature is available for 'Pick One or 'Other'', 'Check All That Apply', 'Single Line Text with Pre-Format Option' question types only.

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: This feature is available for the 'Rate Different Items Along the Scale of Your Choice' question type only.

Using the Question Analysis Code utility, you can specify the analysis code on the Edit 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.