Creating a questionnaire file

If you did not select an existing document or template from the Welcome dialog, Author automatically creates and opens a new, blank questionnaire file, allowing you to start creating the questionnaire immediately. All the questions will be placed in a default routing, which determines the order of the questions (routings are discussed later in Creating a new routing).

By default, Author displays the selected project's .mdd file. Creating a new file effectively overwrites the existing project file.

A message displays, indicating that the new metadata document will overwrite the existing project .mdd file.

2 If you want to overwrite the existing .mdd file click Yes; otherwise click No to continue working with the current file.

The example questionnaire that you are going to create consists of a small number of questions that require different types of responses. The next topic shows how to add these, but for now, just add a title to the file.

The title provides the interviewer or respondent with information about the questionnaire, and does not require a response. The most suitable question type to use for this is Display Text.

1 From the menu, choose Insert > Question > Display Text, or press Ctrl+F10.

A new Display Text item is created. The item has a default name, which is used as a unique identifier for the item. You can leave this as it is, or change it to a more meaningful name (this is useful if you add more than one).

3 Enter the text that will appear in the finished survey. Click in the description field and type:

When creating a new questionnaire, you can specify the interviewing mode to control the supported question types. Some question types are not supported in paper mode. The available interviewing modes are:

The selected routing is designed for use with the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper and UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper/Scan Add-on applications. The questionnaires are generated via the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper application and survey results are recorded by UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper/Scan Add-on.

The selected routing is designed for use with the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server's Phone Participants activity. Interviewers call respondents and gather questionnaire responses over the phone.

The selected routing is designed for use with the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Offline for Windows application. Survey information is collected locally (face-to-face) and the results are entered and verified via the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Offline for Windows application.

The selected routing is designed for Web interviewing. Respondents are provided a survey URL and conduct the interview online.

The selected routing is designed to allow all question types, some of which may not be supported in UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper. It is recommended that when this mode is selected the resulting survey is not used in UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper, but is instead printed or previewed in UNICOM Intelligence Author\UNICOM Intelligence Professional.

The Properties pane, on the right of the screen, now displays available routings.

2 In the Properties pane, select one or more interviewing modes. For this example, select Paper - Manual Entry and Web.

2 In the Save dialog box, browse to a folder where you want to save the questionnaire file.

3 In the File Name field, enter a name for the file, for example, Coffee_Survey, and choose Save.

For UNICOM Intelligence Author Server Edition: The file is saved to the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer server, overwriting the previous file version.