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Creating a grid question

A grid allows you to group questions together into a table format. Grids are flexible and space saving, but can easily become complex and difficult for respondents to use. Grids…

Date/time questions

…Optionality & Dependency: You can choose to make a question optional or required (compulsory). Show optionality: Ticking this box displays the word “Optional” or “Required” (as appropriate) next to the…

Customising invitation and reminder emails

Online surveys has an inbuilt email tool which you can use to send invitation and reminder emails to your respondents. This is only available to users within Project and Organisation…

Complex routing

This tutorial is about complex routing (or ‘branch-logic’) which you can use to create different routes through your survey that are the most relevant to each respondent. This page explains…

Piping

…questions, notes, page titles and section headings. It can also be used to display the current date and time in your survey and to include a completion receipt number on…

The components of a respondent list

…100 characters. can use any character (including spaces and non-Latin characters). are used to access the survey, in combination with the respective username. Passwords that are auto-generated by online surveys…