Define Questions for Employee Survey

Explanation

This activity is used to define questions for the survey. You can also change the order of the survey questions after they are defined. Questions will be published in the survey in the order that the questions are defined. 

Prerequisites

• Alternative lists are required to be defined in the Answer Options window.

System Effects

• You can modify the details of the questions in the Survey/Question Detail tab.

Window

Survey

Related Window Descriptions

Survey

Procedure

To define employee survey questions:

1. Open the Survey/Questions tab and click New.
2. Enter the question.
3. Select the type of question from the List of Values in the Question Type field.
4. If you selected Multi-Choice as the question type, enter a value in the Alternative List ID field by selecting an option from the List of Values. The number of answers that can be selected as defined for the alternative list will automatically appear in the No. of Alternatives to Select field.
5. If you want, enter the number of a previous question defined for the survey as the qualifying question for the current question. You can enter questions of Yes/No type or Multi-Choice type if the alternative type of the alternative list connected to the Multi-Choice type question is Categorized or Scaling.
6. If you have entered a qualifying question, specify the answer option of the qualifying question that will allow the current question to be available. The answer options available for the entered qualifying question will be listed in the Qualifying Answer field.
7. If you want to specify as qualifying answers more than one answer option available to the qualifying question, select the Multiple Answers option in the Qualifying Answer field. The Qualifying Multiple Answers dialog will open and all the answer options in the alternative answer list linked to the qualifying question will be displayed. Select the Qualifying Answers check box to specify the relevant answer options and click OK to close the dialog.
8. If you want to get a remark upon answering a question of type Yes/No, set a value in Remark Required.
9. If you want to terminate the survey upon answering to a question of type Yes/No, set a value in Terminating Question with a Terminating Text.
10. If you selected Optional, the answering to the question will be optional.
11. If you want to propose certain answers to the survey participants, enter a value in Suggested Answer and if the question is of type Multi-Choice, enter multiple suggestions in Suggested Multi-Choice Answers.
12. If you selected Survey as the question type, enter a value in Connected Survey.
13. Save the information. 

To change the order of the questions defined:

1. Open the Survey/Questions tab.
2. Right-click and then click Reorder Questions to open the Reorder Questions dialog.
3. Select a question and use the arrow keys to change the position of the question in the list.
4. Click OK to apply the changes. 
   
   Note: If questions have qualifying questions entered, the qualifying question must always be positioned in the question list before the question it qualifies. You will not be allowed to save the changes if this condition is not fulfilled.