You now add questions to the questionnaire. Don’t worry about the order, that can be changed later. For each item you will enter a question and choose the way in which the user will input the answer.
- Click in the field where is says “new component name”, you are essentially adding a label, which will act as the text of the question or as a label (depending on what you choose in the next column) .
- Click on the next column (defaulting to text field at the start usually) to see a pull down list of other options for user input or label display. Choose an option. Most items are self explanatory, but some of the options in that list are to allow you to add extra information or format the questions. See the following section for more details on question types.
- If the user must answer the question, then check the “mandatory” option.
- Click the “Add” button
- You will then be shown a form with a number of options to customise the question. Normally it is possible to accept the default values and continue, but check through the options to see if any are worth setting.
- Click submit.
- You will then be back to the list of questions, where you can add a new question
- If you want to edit or delete an existing question, click on the option in the “operations” column.
- If you want to change the order of your questions then move the mouse over the small cross to the left of any row and drag it to move the location of the row.
- To see how your questionnaire looks at any time, click the “view” tab at the top. (Click “webform” to return to the question creation page)
- To try out the form, click submit.
- Use the “emails” tab to set up the people to whom you wish the results of each submission to be sent. (Full results are also available on-line)
- Use the “Form settings” tab to set up a confirmation message for those submitting answers and to define access to the questionnaire.
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