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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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Adding a link

You can insert links into notes, question text and the ‘More info’ section of a question. You can add the full URL for the relevant website, or you can make…

Setting answer options as non-applicable

…non-applicable: Create your multiple choice or selection list question and add all of the answer options. Click Add question. Click the Edit question icon to open the question editor. Click…

What is More info?

The More info text box, found in the Advanced options of a question editor, allows you to add further information to your questions. This could be used to, for example,…

How do I validate my pre-population parameters?

…match the text of the related question’s answer options exactly. If Online Surveys cannot match the value you’ve uploaded to an answer option in the question, the participant will see…

Known Issues

…the instructions to Pilot your Survey once you have finished editing your survey. E57 error encountered when pre-populated questions are set as ‘required’ When questions are set to receive pre-population…

Formatting text in questions, notes and messages

…options. Question text and ‘More info’ text have limited formatting options and consequently the toolbars for these items contain fewer formatting tools. Example text editor toolbar showing all available formatting…

Benchmarking

…for more advanced analysis. Free text questions and date and time questions do not contain data which can be compared across multiple surveys and are therefore excluded from the report….