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Start by clicking the Create Survey button. Give your new survey a name and click Start Building.
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Using simple piping, a.k.a merge codes, you can display a single answer from a previous question on a later page. This is typically used in the question title or in a text/instruction element.
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For some projects you may not want your respondents to use the back button to change answers on previous pages. You can set up your survey as "forward only" which will remove the survey back button:
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Do you have a survey already built in a Word document? The easiest way to get this content into Alchemer is to copy and paste the questions, answers, and other instructional text into Alchemer.
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To quickly close your survey from your home page click the ellipsis on the right-hand side of your survey and select Close Survey. From here you can customize your close message and click Close Survey . In order to quickly close surveys from th...
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To change your survey title simply click the survey title in the top header. This will put the survey title in edit mode so you can make whatever changes you wish to make to your survey's title.
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Need to make a change to your survey? If you have already collected data it is important to understand how surveys are updated as well as how respondents and your data will be affected.
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A Percent question is a short-answer, open-text field with validation that ensures entries are percentages.
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When building a survey, you might realize that the question type you initially chose isn't quite the right fit or isn't collecting the data you were expecting.
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Looking to save some time when building your survey? There's no need to type out a list of all the US States or even yes/no, use our library of common answer options instead! Using Common Answer Options To take advantage of our library of common a...
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An other textbox is a text field that is associated with an answer option that typically reads "Other" or "Other (Please Specify)." Other textboxes allow respondents to provide an answer that is outs
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Add Text/Instruction elements to your survey to provide a description or instructions. Text /Instruction elements do not collect data.
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Alchemer allows you to use HTML to style text within your questions, text elements, and email messages. This can be easily done with the use of our HTML editor which does most of the work for you.
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To insert a page break, simply hover your mouse in between two elements where you wish to split your page and click the Page Break button.
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A Date question is a short-answer, open-text field with validation that ensures entries are dates. You can choose to validate MM/DD/YYYY format or DD/MM/YYYY format. Use Date questions to collect...
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A Number question is a short-answer, open-text field with validation that ensures entries are numbers. This is a good question type for collecting things like respondent age.
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To add a question to your survey click the target at the center of the blank page or click the Add New Question link at the bottom of the page.
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Using group names you can group long lists of answer options into subgroups. This approach can give your respondents more context.
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Using our Special Settings, you can set up answer options such as "None of the above" or "Not applicable" so that other options cannot be selected in tandem.
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If you need to direct survey respondents to an external website for additional information but don't want them to actually exit your survey you can do this easily with a little HTML.