3D Grid Object

A 3D Grid is a type of folder. It allows you to combine several questions, which can be of different types, into one object, and presents these questions to the respondent in a grid layout. This enables a more compact presentation than can be achieved when presenting the questions separately. In a 3D Grid, all the questions share the same answer list. In the example below - this is the list of possible problem areas in the first column. The questions added to the 3D Grid are then presented as the remaining columns.

Figure 1 - Example of a 3D grid object in a survey

The 3D Grid object can contain the following question types:

• Single.
• Multi.
• Grid.
• Ranking.
• Open text list.
• Numeric list.

Note: The standard 3D Grid object has multi questions as the columns. It is therefore normally not advisable to use the standard 3D Grid in surveys that are intended for mobile responses as the rendition may cause problems for the respondent. The Multi Grid (go to Multi Grid Object for more information) can however be used in this situation.

Adding a 3D Grid Object to a Survey

To add a 3D Grid object to your survey, drag the object from the New Objects toolbox or right-click in the Survey Tree where you want to place the object and select 3D Grid from the Insert menu. The 3D Grid object is added to the Survey Tree - .

Figure 2 - A 3D grid in the Survey

You now need to add the questions that are to be included in the grid.

Note: Other settings are available. For example you can highlight unanswered cells if the respondent attempts to move on to the next question before completing all the answers in the grid (go to Highlighting Error Cells for more information).

Editing a 3D Grid

Once you have added a 3D Grid object to your survey, edit it in the normal manner by double-clicking on it or right-clicking it and choosing Edit or Properties from the menu.

• In the Answers tab, enter the answer list that will be shared by all the questions that will be added to the 3D Grid. In the question as seen by the respondent, these will be the row headers.
• In the Text tab, enter the question text that will also be common for all the questions. This will be positioned above the column headers. The menu and properties are the same as for the other types of question (go to Objects Overview for more information).
• You can now add your questions (the columns' headers) to the 3D Grid. Do this in the normal manner; drag the questions from the New Objects toolbox and drop them into the 3D Grid, or right-click on the 3D Grid and choose from the Insert (Inside) menu - . Note that you can only add Single, Multi, Grid, Ranking, Open Text List and Numeric List questions to a 3D Grid object.

Figure 3 - Questions added to the 3D Grid

Edit the questions in the 3D Grid by double-clicking on them or right clicking and choosing Edit from the menu.

You will notice that there is no Answers tab for questions added to the 3D Grid. The answers for all the included questions are common for the 3D Grid, and provided by the 3D Grid itself (see the Answers tab description above). In the Text field for each of the questions you add to the 3D Grid, enter the text you wish to appear as the header text above that question column, for example Current account, Savings account, Credit card etc. - (see the figure below).

The figure here below shows how a 3D Grid consisting of a series of Multi questions and a Rating question could look in a survey.

Figure 4 - Example of a 3D Grid object in a survey