Configure questions

Click on a question to change its settings. You can change the title and description of a question and if relevant the label and variable name as well. Click on ‘save’ to confirm the changes.

There are several other configuration options for questions:

Show conditions

For each question, you can determine a condition. This means that the question will be asked only if a specific answer to a previous question was chosen. If the previous question was answered otherwise, the question with the condition will not be asked. To set up a conditions, click on ‘Add condition’ and follow the steps below:

  1. Question – Select the question of which the answer is the condition for asking the current question. You will see the question that can be selected on each page. You can choose all question types, except ‘standard questions’. Click on ‘next step’.
  2. Required answer – Select the required answer to the question you selected in step 1. Then click on ‘save’.
  3. Also apply to – If you want to apply this condition to other questions as well, you can indicate this here. Select the question or select all questions by clicking ‘select all’. Click on ‘save’ to create the condition.

All conditions you created for the question are displayed in a table. The table contains the question that was added as condition and the chosen answer option. To delete a condition, click on .

Options

For all question types, except standard questions, you can choose for ‘Options’. There are several possibilities in ‘options’:

  • Edit order – You can use this option to change the order of answer options. Drag the answer options into the correct order and click on ‘save’ to confirm.
  • Code options numerically – When you click on this option, the answer options will be coded numerically. This makes processing the answers in a statistic program such as SPSS easier. After you have clicked this option, it will change into ‘Turn off numeric coding’. Click this option if you want to turn off numeric coding.
  • Add new option – Add a new answer option by entering a new value and click on ‘save’.
  • Actions – Click on  to edit an answer option. Click on  to delete an answer option.
  • For score questions, you can click on  and add a score to each answer option. Then click on ‘save’.

Sub questions

For matrix questions, you will see a third option: ‘Sub questions’. Here you can perform the following actions:

  • Add sub question – When you click on this, you can enter a new sub question in ‘Label’. Then click on ‘save’ to confirm.
  • Edit order – Click this option if you want to change the order of the sub questions. Drag the questions into the correct order and click ‘save’.
  • Actions – Click on – behind a sub question to edit it. Click on  behind a sub question to delete it.