Adding a Survey | ||
Surveys may be created and modified by any type of user. To create a new survey, simply click on Home->Add Survey in the main navigation bar. Alternatively, users may also click the ' ' button in the upper right hand side of the Survey List screen.
Both of these methods will bring the user to the Edit/Create Survey screen, which is the main interface for defining and tailoring surveys. The screen is broken up into three different sections -- Survey Details, the Question List, and the Question Details. A complete description of each section can be seen below. Survey Details This section contains form fields for all of the survey's non-question related information. This section defines information about the survey as a whole. A complete description of each of these form fields is a as follows:
Question List The Question List summarizes all of the questions that make up a survey. Each entry in the Question List represents a single question. Entries begin with the question number in parenthesis and are proceeded by the actual text of the question. To the right of each question are a group of four actions buttons. The first two buttons (arrow icons) allow users to move a question's position up or down in the list. Moving a question down in the list will swap it's position with the question beneath it. Moving a question up in the list behaves in a similar fashion. The question list is circular such that if one tries to move a question at the bottom of the list down, it will wrap around and appear at the top of the list. Similarly, moving the top question up, will cause it to appear at the bottom of the Question List. The third action button (pencil icon) is for editing a survey question. To edit an existing question, simply click on the question's text or the corresponding edit action button. This will load the question into the Question Details section where users can define and tailor the specific attributes of the question. The last action button (trash can icon) is for deleting a question from the list. To delete a question from the Question List, simply click on the delete action button next to the corresponding survey question. Users will not be prompted to confirm the deletion. Upon being deleted, the question will no longer appear in the Question List and the next question in the list will be loaded into the Question Details section. If there is only one question in the list, then an attempt to delete it will fail because all surveys must be composed of at least one question. In the upper right hand corner of the Question List section is a button labeled ' '. Users may click this button to append a new question to the Question List. New questions are populated with default values in the Question Details section and automatically become highlighted in the Question List. eSurvey will not allow users to create a new question or modify an existing question if the active question in the Question Details section contains errors. The reasoning behind this is that a survey can potentially hold many questions and it is frustrating to make a large number of corrections when trying to save the survey at the end of the process. Errors can be easily recognized because the form fields will become red and an exclamation icon will appear next to the offending field. By clicking the error icon, users are alerted with a detailed description of the error found. Question Details This section contains all of the form fields necessary to configure and define a survey question. A complete description of these form fields is as follows:
Users may abort the creation of a survey at any time by either clicking on the ' ' button or by simply navigating to a different screen without first clicking the ' ' button. Once a survey has been tailored to the user's specifications, it may be saved to the database by clicking the ' ' button. Upon clicking this button, the progress bar (rainbow) in the lower left hand corner of the screen will become animated, letting the user know that eSurvey is busy. During this time it is very important that the user does not click the browser's Stop button, modify any of the screen's form fields, or navigate to a different screen. In doing so, it may not be guaranteed that the survey is saved successfully. Upon success, a popup message will appear alerting users that the survey was saved to the database. If the save operation failed, then errors were detected and should be visible in the Survey Details section and/or the Question Details section. Fields that contain errors will be highlighted red and will have an exclamation icon to their left. Users may obtain detailed feedback about each error by clicking on the exclamation icons. Related Topics:
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