How To Build A Survey: Using The Survey Editor GUI

Installing
The Survey Editor
Advanced Features
After Running The Survey

Installing

First, you'll want to install the Survey Manager, which will allow you to create surveys and launch the survey editor. Once you finish that, come back to this page for directions.

The Survey Editor

The Survey Editor can be used to create all of the questions that you will use and the order that they will appear, and which pages they will show up on. Create pages and questions by dragging them from toolbar on the left into the location that you want them dragged to. Be careful to drag them to a valid location -- drag a page tag just above or below a page tag, and drag a question tag just above or below a question tag.

Screenshot 1	Screenshot 2	Toolbar

For each question you ask that the user answers, you must specify a variable name  to save the question's answer. This name is used for the title of a column in the spreadsheet or database that you will get data out of. You must also specify a type, whether it is a "number" (e.g. "1", "537") or a "string" (e.g. "hi there", "left in the car"). Do this by clicking on the text area or radio button that the user will eventually click on. See the screenshot, where (1) the user selected a scale from 1-7, and (2) in the "Likert scale" panel at the bottom of the screen. the user typed the variable name "enjoyUsing" and selected the type "string".

After Running The Survey

To see how to get your data from the database into a spreadsheet or a statistics program, see Getting Data From The Database.

Further Information

If you want to do anything nonbasic, you will want to read further documentation:
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