Add Text-Based Questions

Quick reference

• 00:04 Another popular type of question to add to a survey is a text-based question.
• 00:09 And what that means is that whoever's filling out the form,
• 00:12 gets to free type in a text-based answer.
• 00:15 They don't need to select a radio button or an option from a drop-down.
• 00:18 So let's add one into our survey.
• 00:21 So, if you take a look at the previous question, where we asked how did you hear
• 00:26 about Happy Flame, remember that we added an Other option at the end here.
• 00:30 So, what my text-based question might be is,
• 00:34 if you selected Other, how did you hear about Happy Flame?
• 00:38 So all we need to do here is click on Text and we can add in our question.
• 00:44 Once again, we can add an image if we want to, I'm not going to.
• 00:48 And all they would do here, is type out their answer in the box underneath.
• 00:51 Now what we can do is toggle on the long answer slider,
• 00:55 which will allow them to type in more than maybe what one or two lines.
• 00:59 So I'm going to do that.
• 01:00 Is this question required?
• 01:02 No, it isn't.
• 01:03 Let's click on the three dots to see what we have underneath here.
• 01:07 Now, once again, we could add a subtitle to give them a little bit more
• 01:10 clarification about this question, I'm not going to do that.
• 01:14 We can also add in restrictions on this question.
• 01:17 So what's that all about?
• 01:19 Well, I will say that for this question that we've typed in, this isn't
• 01:23 particularly relevant, because we can add different types of number restrictions.
• 01:28 So we've got Greater than, Greater than or equal to, Less than, so on and so forth.
• 01:33 So if the answer they were providing was a number,
• 01:36 we could apply some restrictions to that number.
• 01:39 For example, the number can't be greater than 20.
• 01:42 So this doesn't really apply for this question, so we're going to turn that off.
• 01:47 And then the final thing underneath here is Add branching.
• 01:50 Now this is actually a good example to start to explore what branching is.
• 01:55 We are going to go into it in more detail later on.
• 01:58 But for example, this question is only really relevant to people who selected
• 02:02 Other in the previous question.
• 02:05 So we could add in branching so that if they didn't select Other,
• 02:09 they completely skip over this question entirely.
• 02:12 Let's click away.
• 02:14 There is our text-based question.
• 02:16 Let's give our survey a preview to make sure it's still looking good.
• 02:20 If we scroll down, you can see there it is.
• 02:23 And if we jump across to mobile, that's what it looks like on a mobile device.
• 02:28 Remember, we have our back link to go back to our form and
• 02:32 we're ready to enter in our next question.

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