By default, when a metric is added to a survey, it appears to the respondent as a metric.

• This isn’t always appropriate, for example

  • if a metric is called Confidence

  • you might want it to appear in a survey as What is your level of confidence?

• You can do this by adding custom wording to the metric

Steps

1. Go to the Survey Profile Page of the survey you want to add Custom Wording to. You can get there by

   1. clicking My Apps in the top menu

   2. selecting Surveys

   3. selecting Table view

   4. selecting the survey you want to work on

2. Scroll down until you see the metric you want to add Custom Wording to

3. Open Makerble in a separate tab and go to the Metrics App. You can get there by

   1. clicking My Apps in the top menu

   2. selecting Metrics

   3. You arrive in your Personal Library

      1. If there are no metrics displayed:

         1. select Organisation Library view,

            

         2. then select a metric. It doesn’t matter which one you choose.

      2. If there are metrics displayed in your Personal Library, select one of them. It doesn’t matter which one you choose.

         

4. You arrive on the metric’s profile page

   

5. Search for the metric you want to add Custom Wording to by searching for its name in the Search bar

   

6. You arrive on that metric’s profile

7. Click More Options

   

8. A dropdown menu appears. Select Edit. (If Edit doesn’t appear, it means you are not the owner of that metric and therefore cannot add custom wording to it)

9. You arrive on the Edit Metric page

10. Scroll down to the Rewrite as a survey question box. Here you can add custom wording to the metric and press Save.

    

11. That’s it. The custom wording will automatically appear when the survey is displayed to a respondent

    

Related articles

• Create a metric

• Create a survey

• Understand the difference between Metrics and Survey Questions

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