You can change the answers This article explains how to add, edit the text of, reorder and remove the Answer Choices in a multiple choice question that has already been added to a survey.
| Note |
|---|
Note: editing a List that has already been used (e.g. to create a story, complete a survey or create a contact) will cause data to be altered (if you change the text within an Answer Choice) and lost (if you remove an Answer Choice from the List). |
...
Previous survey response data will be altered when edit the text of an Answer Choice.
|
| Note |
|---|
Previous survey response data will be altered when you remove an Answer Choice.
|
You cannot directly edit the Answer Choices of a survey question that uses Shared Answer Choices.
Instead you must edit the Answer Choices of the Master Question and this will then automatically edit the Answer Choices of the questions that use Shared Answer Choices that are anchored to the Master Question
| Table of Contents |
|---|
How to Add additional Answer Choices
Watch the walkthrough:
| Appsplus loom macro | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Step-by-step instructions
From the Categories (Lists) App
Select My Apps in the top menu
Select
...
Categories
You arrive in the Categories (Lists) App
This displays:
List fields you have created from within the Categories (Lists) App
Every Master Question that your Multiple Choice survey questions with Shared Answer Choices are based on
Every Multiple Choice survey question that you have created from scratch (i.e. not using Shared Answer Choices)
Click Edit to edit the Category (List) you want to change the Answer Choices within
You arrive on the Edit Category (List) page
From here you can
...
ADD additional Answer Choices
...
EDIT the text of an Answer Choice
REORDER the Answer Choices: Note: do this by changing the priority number rather than by cutting & pasting the answers themselves
...
Remove Answer Choices
...
Once you are done editing, press Save
...
That’s it.
...
REMOVE Answer Choices
Follow the steps in the next section…
How to ADD more Answer Choices
If you are editing a Master Question with linked Multiple Choice Questions that use Shared Answer Choices, the linked Multiple Choice Questions will automatically have their Answer Choices changed in every survey they appear in.
This means that when analysing the survey results, you will now see an additional Answer Choice that, initially, has zero responses.
Press Add Item
In the Item box, write the new Answer Choice
Press Save
How to EDIT the text of an Answer Choice
If you are editing a Master Question with linked Multiple Choice Questions that use Shared Answer Choices, the linked Multiple Choice Questions will automatically have their Answer Choices changed in every survey they appear in and this will alter the survey responses accordingly.
Click into the text box for that Item
Edit the text as necessary
Press Save
How to REORDER the Answer Choices
| Info |
|---|
The order that the Answer Choices appear in is based on the Priority number stated below that Item. |
| Note |
|---|
When reordering, always change the Priority numbers, rather than changing the text in the Item fields.
|
Click the Priority box under each item
Change the number so that the Items (Answer Choices) are now in the order you want them to be, counting up from 1 where the Answer Choice with the lowest number (above zero) will appear first (i.e. on the left) and higher numbers will appear subsequently.
Check that each Item (Answer Choice) has a unique
Press save
How to REMOVE an Answer Choice
| Note |
|---|
Previous survey response data will be altered when you remove an Answer Choice.
|
If you are editing a Master Question with linked Multiple Choice Questions
...
that use Shared Answer Choices, the linked Multiple Choice Questions will automatically have their Answer Choices changed in every survey they appear in and this will alter the survey responses accordingly.
Press Remove Item
Press Save