Overview - Questions & Sub-questions

Note: A survey consists of question groups which contain one or more questions. Therefore, you must create a question group first before you add questions to your survey. For more details on question groups, view the Add and edit question groups article.

Add a question

Once your question groups are set up, add questions to each group — either via the purple + button (top left) or the purple + divider between groups on the canvas.

Changes save automatically — there is no manual save button. Look for Saved at HH:MM in the top right.

Note: On an active survey, adding questions is disabled — the survey structure is locked while the survey is running.

Editing and previewing on the canvas

The editor has no separate editing screen. The canvas shows your survey as participants will see it, and you edit it in place:

• Click a question to edit it. Its controls appear — the x to remove an answer option or sub-question, drag handles to reorder them, and + buttons to add more — and the Question settings panel opens beside it.
• Click anywhere outside the question to leave edit mode. The editing controls disappear and you see the question exactly as your participants will.

That is why there is no Save button: you are editing the real thing, and every change is saved as you make it.

Question types

1. To change the type of an existing question, open the question and use the Type dropdown on the Advanced tab of the Question settings panel. The same tab holds the question code and the Mandatory setting (On, Soft or Off).
2. When adding a new question, pick its type in the question type picker — browse the groups, or type in the search box at the top.

The picker groups question types as follows:

• Single choice
• Multiple choice
• Ranking & rating
• Dates & data
• Text
• Number
• Array

Sub-questions

Usually a question only has answers. But there are certain question types (like the Array question types) that have a main question, sub-questions, and answer options for the sub-questions. Sub-questions can be answered by the survey participant, often by using a predefined scale of answer options.

A more complex example is Array (Texts), where the respondent enters values for combinations. Here the value the respondent types is the answer, and both scales on the array are scales of sub-questions.

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