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

addquestion  

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 or underscores. 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:

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).  

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).  

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

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.  

Grid  
Lets you compose Select, Numeric, Constant Sum, Ranking, and Open-end questions in a grid format (usually multiple rows and/or columns).  

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.  
 
Ranking  
Adds a question in which respondents can rank multiple items, from "1" meaning best to "n" meaning worst.  

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 grid-type questions, or special layouts not supported by the standard templates for CiW question types.  

ACA Questions  
If you are licensed to use ACA/Web and have specified the study type as ACA, you can add ACA question types. These are added as a single section. The control parameters and existing attribute list you provided determine the number of questions and ACA question types that are added.  
 
CVA Questions  
If you are licensed to use CVA/Web and have specified the study type as CVA, you can add CVA question types. These are added as a single section. The control parameters and existing attribute list you provided determine the number of CVA questions that are added.  

CBC Questions  
If you are licensed to use CBC/Web and have specified the study type as CBC, you can add CBC question types. These are added as a single section. The control parameters and existing attribute list you provided determine the number of CBC questions that are added.  
 
MaxDiff Questions  
If you are licensed to use MaxDiff/Web (Maximum Difference Scaling), you can add a MaxDiff exercise (or multiple MaxDiff exercises) within your study. The control parameters and item list you provide determines the number of questions that are asked.  
 
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.  
 
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.