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.

Previous survey response data will be altered when edit the text of an Answer Choice.

This is because Makerble records the ID of the answer choice that a respondent chose, rather than a snapshot of the text used for the answer choice at that time.

Previous survey response data will be altered when you remove an Answer Choice.

This is because Makerble records the ID of the answer choice that a respondent chose, rather than a snapshot of the text used for the answer choice at that time. So removing the Answer Choice will delete that Answer Choice’s ID.

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

How to Add additional Answer Choices

Watch the walkthrough:

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:
1. List fields you have created from within the Categories (Lists) App
2. Every Master Question that your Multiple Choice survey questions with Shared Answer Choices are based on
3. 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
1. ADD additional Answer Choices
2. EDIT the text of an Answer Choice
3. REORDER the Answer Choices: Note: do this by changing the priority number rather than by cutting & pasting the answers themselves
4. 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

The order that the Answer Choices appear in is based on the Priority number stated below that Item.

When reordering, always change the Priority numbers, rather than changing the text in the Item fields.

This is because each Item is an Answer Choice and each Answer Choice has an Answer Choice ID.
When a respondent chooses an Answer Choice, Makerble stores the Answer Choice ID, rather than a snapshot of the text in the Item field at that time
Therefore if you edit the text in the Item field (i.e. the text for that Answer Choice), this alteration will appear on all existing survey responses

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