Question Types

Sliders

For Single, Numeric, Numeric List and Grid questions, a setting in the Advanced WI Features tab allows you to change the layout of the form to Sliders as shown below - (go to Advanced WI Features for more information).

Figure 1 - Example of sliders

To answer a question, the user either drags the slider pointer to the desired value, or they click in the slider row below the desired value and the pointer will move to that value.

When Slider is selected, additional properties become available depending on the question type:

• Slider Color - [all] allows you to specify the background color for the slider rows. Type a color code into the field or double-click on the color marker and select a color from the dialog box.
• Size - [Numeric, Numeric List] sets the size (width or height as appropriate) of the slider bar.
• Vertical - [Numeric, Numeric List] check to display the slider bar vertically.

Note: For a Single question which is set to Slider, the slider will be displayed vertically by default. To change the slider to horizontal, go to the Single question’s General tab (go to General for more information) and set the List rows property to 1.

Card Sort

A setting in the Advanced WI Features tab allows you to change the layout of the form to Card Sort as shown below - (go to Advanced WI Features for more information).

The answers to the question are then presented as a deck of playing cards, with the scale being represented by a series of areas. The respondent answers the question by dragging the cards into the appropriate areas.

Dragging the question cards into the answer areas

The various styles for the cards and drop areas are set up in the Question Skins > Grid Question > Question Form Input properties pane (go to About Question Skins for more information). Selecting this option prevents the other options in Advanced WI Features being used. Additional card-sort-related selections then become available:

• Card Offset - sets the offset for the stack of "unused" cards, such that the edges of unused cards lower in the pack are visible.
• Card Dropped Offset - sets the offset for the cards once they have been dropped onto the "answer" areas.
• Card Layout - specifies where the card deck is located relative to the answer areas. For example, Top-Bottom places the deck at the top of the page and the answer areas at the bottom.

Star Rating

Select the Star rating box to display stars instead of the boxes as seen below.

Figure 2 - Example of using Star Rating

Any number of stars can be used; one will be displayed for each answer option in the grid.

Note: Due to space limitations, for mobile rendering a maximum of 11 stars will be displayed. If more than 11 options are used in the grid, then when the question is displayed on a mobile unit it will default to normal mobile grid rendering.

Grid Bars

A setting in the Advanced WI Features tab allows you to change the layout of the form to Grid Bars as shown below - (go to Advanced WI Features for more information).

Figure 3 - An example of a Grid question with the grid bars layout

As a special case:

If you wish to include "hint" texts at the ends of the grid bar rows, add your desired text separated from the scale values by <space><hyphen><space>. If for example you have the Answers and Scale set up as shown here below (note the "- very bad" and "- very good" texts for the 1 and 5 grades in the scale):

Answers and Scale setup

Then the layout will automatically be arranged as shown below, with the "very good" and "very bad" texts placed at the ends of the rows of selection boxes. Note that this also works with the Star rating box layout.

Resulting layout

Any number of grid boxes can be used; one will be displayed for each answer option in the grid.

Note: Due to space limitations, for mobile rendering a maximum of 11 boxes will be displayed. If more than 11 options are used in the grid, then when the question is displayed on a mobile unit it will default to normal mobile grid rendering.

When Grid bars is selected, an additional property becomes available in the Advanced WI Features tab:

• Exclude non-weighted elements from bars - this enables you to "exclude" specific scale elements from the grid bars for easier identification. If this box is unchecked, when the respondent hovers over or selects a scale element in the grid bar, all elements in the grid bar up to and including the selected item will be given the appropriate color. When this box is checked, if a scale element has no score, then when the respondent hovers over or selects that element in the grid bar, only that element will be colored. When the respondent hovers over or selects any other element in the grid bar, all the elements up to and including the selected item will be colored except the element with no score. This enables you to for example highlight a "Don't know" element in the scale.

Carousel

A setting in the Advanced WI Features tab allows you to change the layout of the grid form to Carousel as shown below - (go to Advanced WI Features for more information). Note that if Carousel is selected, several of the other options that are normally available to grids will be hidden.

Figure 4 - An example of a Grid question with the Carousel layout

The Carousel setting results in each grid statement being split into a separate view. The question text appears towards the top of the page, the first answer is presented, and the scale is presented below. The respondent selects their desired answer from the scale, and the next answer is then presented. A progress bar indicating the respondent's progress through this grid question is displayed below the question text. The survey's Next navigation button is displayed when the Carousel is completed.

The Star rating or Grid bar options can be used in combination with the Carousel to vary the layout.

Horizontal Rating Scale

This property is available in the Advanced WI Features tab for Single and Grid questions, as long as no other answer display options (such as Slider, card sort, images etc.) are selected.

When this property is selected, the answers for the question are displayed as a rating scale - .

Figure 5 - Example of a Single question using the Horizontal Rating Scale option

Figure 6 - Example of a Grid question using the Horizontal Rating Scale option

If you wish to include "header" texts over the first and last answer options, add your desired text separated from the scale values by <space><hyphen><space>. If for example you have the answers set up as shown here below (note the "- Poor" and "- Good" texts for the 1 and 10 grades in the scale), then the layout will automatically be arranged as shown in the Single question example above. Note that header texts can only be added to the first and last scored answer options.

Figure 7 - The question’s Answers list

When the Horizontal Rating Scale property is selected, the “Exclude non-scored elements from scale” sub-option becomes available. This removes any answer options that do not have a score (go to Answer List Columns for more information) from the list of answers available, and places them separately. This allows you to include for example a “Not applicable” option in the answer list, and as it does not have a score (see NA in the figure above) it will not affect your results.

In desktop rendering, any answer options with undefined score values are displayed to the right of the answer list, whilst in mobile rendering any answer options with undefined score values are displayed below the answer bar as radio buttons - .

Figure 8 - The same Single and Grid questions rendered on mobile

In mobile rendering, the space allocated to the answers is divided evenly between the options, so if there are fewer answer options then the answer buttons will be wider.

Note: If the question is to be presented in mobile rendering, then there can be a maximum of 11 answer options (for example, options 1 to 10, and N/A). In the event the question has more than 11 options, it will be rendered as a standard single question.

Note: Internet Explorer cannot render the iPhone/Android preview correctly. When previewing the questions in these modes you must therefore use either Chrome or Firefox.