Adding Questions to Your Survey
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When you click Add... from the Write Questionnaire dialog, the Add to Questionnaire dialog is displayed:

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The dialog lets you specify the question name and type to add to your survey.


Question Names and Types

Question names can include up to 24 letters or numbers. They cannot begin with a number, and cannot include spaces. They also cannot include a reserved name (the software will report whether you have used a reserved name and ask you to make a new selection).

Available question types are:

Constant Sum  
Adds a question in which respondents provide a series of numeric values that sum to a certain value, or sum to the value provided in a previous question.  
 
Free Format  
Lets you compose the HTML to define most every aspect of a question or series of questions. This is a powerful area for users who know HTML. One can compose special question layouts not supported by the standard templates for CiW question types.  
 
Grid  
Lets you compose Select, Numeric, Constant Sum, Ranking, and Open-end questions in a grid format (usually multiple rows and/or columns).  
 
Numeric  
Adds a numeric question. Numeric questions are text boxes in which respondents type numeric values.  
 
Open-end  
Adds a text box question, in which respondents provide a written answer to an open-ended question. Responses can be short (a few words), or long (many sentences).  

Quota Questions  
Lets you evaluate whether respondents have qualified for a quota bucket based on previous question(s). This quota "question" is not really a question in the traditional sense (it doesn't require any response), but is a qualification point at which you write logic to decide whether a respondent has qualified to take the survey or not.  
 
Ranking  
Adds a question in which respondents can rank multiple items, from "1" meaning best to "n" meaning worst.  
 
Select  
Lets you add a select-type question. Examples include radio button (select one from a list), drop-down combo boxes, and select all that apply (check-box).  

Terminate/Link  
Adds a section of text or HTML instructions that requires no user input, that either ends the survey or links respondents to another web site or survey.  

Text/HTML Filler  
Adds a section of text or HTML instructions that does not require any response.  


Available exercise types are:

ACA, ACBC, CBC, CVA, and MaxDiff  
If you are licensed to use these analytical tools, you can add these exercise(s) to your study. The control parameters and attribute list associated with each analytical exercise determines the number of questions and question types that are added for that exercise.  
 
Copy from Question of Similar Type

If you want to add a new question to the questionnaire that is very similar or identical to another question within this same survey or within another SSI Web project, you can save a lot of time by copying that question and giving it a new name.
You can create copies of questions by highlighting a question or questions from the Write Questionnaire dialog, clicking the Copy Question copyquestion icon (or pressing Ctrl + C), placing your cursor in the list of questions of the target survey (either the current or a different SSI Web survey), and clicking the Paste pastequestion icon (or pressing Ctrl + V). If copying files to a different SSI Web survey, make sure to keep SSI Web running (and do not open a second instance of SSI Web). After copying the question(s) to the clipboard, close the first survey. Open the second survey and paste the questions within the question list.

If you copy a question named ABC within the same questionnaire, SSI Web automatically names the copy ABC1, and a second copy (produced by clicking the Paste icon a second time) is called ABC2, etc. You can rename the copies of questions by editing the question and clicking the Rename button.