Skip Logic: Jump To a question in a Survey

Owned by Matt Kepple
Last updated: Nov 17, 2024
4 min read

You can add Jump To (skip logic) to your surveys on Makerble.

How it works

  • Any multiple choice question can be a routing question, i.e. a question from which skip logic is applied

  • Any question or section that appears further down in the survey can be a destination, i.e. a place that a respondent arrives after having answered a routing question

  • In the absence of respondents being skipped forwards, they will continue to ‘descend’ through the survey under ‘gravity’ by answering one question after the next

 

Key considerations

  • Respondents cannot skip backwards

  • A routing question can only be used to skip a respondent once. You cannot base future routing on a previous skip condition.

Example

Watch the walkthrough video of this example

Key principles

  • In the absence of skip logic, the respondent will continue the natural order of questions under ‘gravity’.

    • In Question 1 if the respondent chooses Red, they naturally progress to Question 2

    • If in Question 2 the respondent chooses None of these, they naturally progress to Question 3

  • You can set different answer choices to skip forward to different destinations (see Question 7 in the example)

  • You can set every answer choice within a single question to cause the respondent to skip forwards (see Question 8 in the example)

Steps

Skip logic can only be added to a survey by the user who is the Survey Owner

  1. Select My Apps in the top menu

  2. Select Surveys

  3. You arrive on the Manage Surveys page

  4. If the survey is owned by your organisation, use the dropdown list to select Manage Surveys for: Organisation

  5. Switch to Tables view

  6. Select the name of the survey

  7. You arrive on the Survey’s profile page

  8. Go to the Multiple choice question that will initiate the jump (It can be a Single Choice, limited choice or multiple choice)

  9. Click on Actions Button. From the drop down select Skip Logic: Jump To option.

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  10. A popup appears in which you can add the Skip Logic to that routing question

  11. Tick the Answer Choices you want to base the skip on

  12. Select the destination question from the dropdown list

  13. Press save

  14. The popup closes and the routing conditions are saved

  15. To add a 2nd condition, click the Add skip logic button

  16. The popup reappears and displays the settings you just added in the Existing skip logics section

  17. In the Add new Skip Logic section you can add the additional routing. Ensure that you do not select the same Answer Choices that you chose previously as otherwise this will cause a conflict in the routing

  18. Press save

  19. The popup will close

  20. Skip conditions are saved every time you press Save

  21. You can see all the Skip Logics associated with a question by clicking the “Skip Logic added: Jump From Here” present below the question. (Only appears for questions that have a Skip logic)

  22. You can also see if a question is affected by a Skip Logic and what question is affecting it by clicking “Affected by Skip Logic: Arrive Here From” option below the question. (Only appears for question that are affected by Skip Logic)



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