Creating text questions
Use a text question when you want to give the respondent the chance to answer in their own words. Text questions display a text box, which you can resize to limit the length of the response.
Text questions are also known as open-ended questions.
Creating a text question
1 From the menu, choose Insert > Question > Text, or press Ctrl+F8.
The new question is displayed in the Routings pane and in the Design pane. It has an automatically generated name: see
Automatically generated names.
2 Enter the question text to be displayed to respondents in the box under Name. For example, "Please say what it is that you don't like about coffee".
Specifying the length of the response
The Minimum and Maximum fields indicate the range of characters a respondent can enter. For example, you may want to restrict the respondent to entering a value from 10 to 100 characters.
Note Setting the length for the question to a maximum value of 40, or less, results in the text question being rendered with a single line edit box. Setting the maximum value to 41, or higher, results in the text question being rendered with a multiple line edit box.
Specifying presentation options
The
Width and
Height fields control the size of the response text box. These values allow you to tailor the size of the response text box based on the length of the anticipated responses. For more information, see
Changing the presentation of a question.
Specifying other options
See:
See also