We've covered the basic question types, but our survey builder goes even further! We offer a bunch of cool features that let you customize your survey and control how it works. These features will help you make your survey more precise and get the best possible information from your participants. Let's dive into these advanced options!
Question Options
Required
A required question setting ensures that respondents must answer a particular question before they can proceed further in the survey. This is useful for ensuring the completeness of responses.
Instruction
Add explanatory text beneath questions to provide additional context or instructions.
Question Settings
Click on a question to display it's settings
Score
Assigns weighted values to different answer options, allowing you to quantify responses based on importance. This feature enables immediate analysis by automatically calculating participant scores according to your predefined criteria.
Follow Up Question
When activated, this feature automatically displays an additional open-ended question after the respondent makes their selection. Perfect for gathering deeper insights, such as "Why did you choose this option?" or "Please explain your rating" without creating separate questions.
Randomize
Randomizing options helps in eliminating bias that may arise due to the position of a question or answer choice. It ensures each respondent sees questions or options in a different sequence, reducing order effects.
Stacked
Stacking options into a single column format allows for presenting multiple items vertically within a question. This layout is useful for conserving space and maintaining visual clarity, especially when dealing with long lists of options.
Other Specify
Toggle the "Other" option to allow respondents to input their own custom answer when the provided choices don't match their response. This creates a text field where they can type their specific answer.
Note: If you simply want "Other" as a standard choice without allowing respondents to specify what "Other" means, don't enable this feature. Instead, just add a regular answer choice labeled "Other" to your list of options.
Multiple Answers (Min/Max)
Allow respondents to select multiple options from a single question while maintaining control over their responses. You can set minimum requirements (e.g., "Select at least 2") and maximum limits (e.g., "Choose up to 3") to ensure you get precisely the data structure you need.
None of the above
Sometimes, respondents might not find any of the provided options suitable. This option allows them to explicitly indicate that none of the provided choices apply to them.
All of the above
In contrast to "None of the Above," this option allows respondents to select all the provided options if they find that multiple choices apply to them. It's useful for questions where multiple options may be relevant.
Default Answer
Pre-select specific answer options that will appear chosen when respondents first view the question. This can save time for common responses, establish baseline selections, or guide respondents toward expected answer patterns while still allowing them to change selections if needed.
Add Logic
Show or hide questions based on specific conditions
Display Logic controls whether a question appears to respondents based on their previous answers or characteristics.
How to use:
Click "Display Logic" button for your question
Set your condition:
Select "Question" or "Device" as your condition type
Choose which question or device property to check
Select the relationship (selected, not selected, answered, etc.)
Choose the specific answer that triggers this logic
Add more conditions with the "+" button if needed
Save your settings
Example: Show a question about dog food brands only to respondents who selected "Dog" in a previous pet ownership question.
Guide respondents to different parts of your survey
Skip Logic creates custom paths through your survey by jumping to specific questions or sections based on responses.
How to use:
Click "Skip Logic" button for your question
Set your condition:
Select "Question" or "Device" as your condition type
Choose which question or device property to check
Select the relationship (selected, not selected, answered, etc.)
Choose the specific answer that triggers this jump
Add more conditions with the "+" button if needed
Under "Then Jump To," select where to send respondents (specific question or end of survey)
Save your settings
Example: When someone answers "No" to "Do you purchase gummy candy?" skip them ahead to demographic questions instead of asking about candy preferences.
Piping - Create Personalized Survey Experiences
1. Pipe Questions
Personalize question text with respondents' answers
Pipe Questions lets you insert respondents' previous answers directly into the text of later questions, creating a conversational and tailored survey experience.
Pipe Questions
Example:
If a respondent answers "Blue" to "What is your favorite color?"
A later question could read: "Why do you like [Q2]?" which would appear as "Why do you like Blue?"
This creates a natural conversation flow that acknowledges respondents' previous answers, making the survey feel more engaging and personal.
2. Pipe Answers
Use previous responses to create custom answer options
Pipe Answers displays previous responses as answer choices in later questions, allowing follow-up questions specific to earlier selections.
How to use:
Click the "Pipe Answer" button for your question
Select the source question (where to pull answers from)
Choose what to display:
Selected Choices: Only what the respondent picked
All The Choices: All options from the source question
Unselected Choices: Only what the respondent didn't pick
Save your settings
Example:
If a respondent selects "Strawberry" and "Orange" as favorite flavors
A later question could show only these two flavors as options when asking about purchasing preferences
This feature is perfect for creating branching surveys that adapt to each respondent's unique path, resulting in more relevant data and a better survey experience.
Bulk Choices
You also have the option to input all the answer choices in bulk at once, saving you the need to enter them individually. This feature is particularly useful for surveys with numerous answer choices.
