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Forsta Professional Authoring Support

All the topics, resources needed for Forsta Professional Authoring.

  • Surveys Overview

    In Professional Authoring there are two types of Survey designer available: Standard Designer and Professional Designer. Standard Designer is intended...

  • Question ID

    The Question ID is the survey-unique ID of the form (questions). This is an automatically generated, alphanumeric string with no white space, starting with a...

  • Grid View

    The Grid View gathers together on one page the input text fields (texts, answers, titles instructions etc.) and some properties of selected objects from the...

  • Editing a Form

    To edit a question form, either double-click on the question’s icon in the Survey Tree, or right-click on the icon and choose Edit or Properties from ...

  • Including a Logo in a Question Text

    To include a logo in a question text, drag the logo, for example from a website, into the text field or answer cell - . You can also copy and paste the logo...

  • Adding New Objects to the Survey Tree

    There are two methods of adding new objects to the Survey: Drag and drop – drag objects from the New Objects toolbox, and drop them into the survey f...

  • Finding Questions or Nodes in the Survey

    In the event your Survey is extensive and you need to for example edit a question or node, you can use the Quick Find functionality for locate the question o...

  • Directives

    Directives contain instructions to the WI generator - . Six different directives exist, which are used to control page break insertion, navigation and progr...

  • Nodes

    XML ComparisonIf you wish to view the XML code of a node, double-click on the node in the tree window. This displays the XML code for both the selected vers...

  • Secondary Project Toolbox

    The Secondary Project toolbox allows you to copy individual questions or complete folders containing several questions from another survey and into the curre...

  • Organizing Your Survey

    To organize your Survey, create folders in the routing. For example, put all demographic forms into one folder. To place an object inside a folder, po...

  • Randomization

    Randomization in computers is actually "pseudo-random" – it is based on an algorithm that when given a seed will return a seemingly random order. Normally, t...

  • Poll Surveys

    Polls are "limited" surveys that allow only one question, and a chart (on in its own page) (go to Chart Object for more information) to present the re...