Showing the labels as buttons

The As Buttons option is available in the Show toolbar topic.

1. Select the Single Choice, Multi Choice or Grid question.
2. Select Show from the toolbar topic menu.
3. Select As Buttons from the next drop-down.

1. Select the Show checkbox. This enables the Options button.
2. Click on the Options button. This opens the Code labels as buttons dialog where you can customise the appearance of the question.

Choose the colours

You can change the text and background colours displayed for both the unselected and selected labels.

1. Click the colour drop down to select the text or background colour.
2. Select the colour or click More Colours to create custom colours.
3. Click OK to save the changes.

Check that the colours are correct by previewing the questionnaire.

Choose the border

You can choose whether to show a border around the active code label, and set the properties of the border style.

1. Select the Use border check box. This enables the border options.
2. There are 4 border style options
   • Rounded border gives a round shape at the each end of the border.
   • Add margins adds space around the code label text.
   • Text only changes the border width to the width of each code label text.
   • Reduce width decreases the code label size to the largest text width of the code labels.
3. Choose the border colour that is shown when labels are selected or unselected.
4. Click OK to save the changes.

Check that the border appearance is correct by previewing the questionnaire.

Default border

When you select Use border, this will show the default border options.

This displays the code labels with a square border, no margins at the top and bottom. If the question has multiple columns, the labels are equally spaced across the page.

Rounded border

Selecting the Rounded border option, shows the buttons with rounded ends.

Add margins

Selecting the Add Margins option, adds a margin at the top and bottom of the text and/or image.

Text only

Selecting the Text Only option, shows the border around the code label text without spacing.

Reduce width

Selecting the Reduce width option, moves the labels closer together and does not use the full page. The label border reduces to the width of the code label border to the width of the longest text.

If both Reduce width and Text only options are selected then the label border widths are defined by the Text only option.

Append box image

You can display a checkbox using either the Off image or the On image, which shows when the code label is selected.

For example, when the On image is selected, this is shown after the code label text on the selected codes.

Displaying with no columns

You can also display the code labels adjacent to each other, without any columns. This uses the Columns settings.

1. Select Columns in the topic drop-down.
2. Select the None button.

During the interview each code label displays adjacent to the next across the full width of the page.

Examples

Image only

Label only

Image and Label

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Displaying a question in a different formats

1. Select the question in the Questionnaire window.
2. Select Show in the topics drop-down list.

3. Select one of the question formats available in the next drop-down. The question formats available depend on the selected question.

4. Select the Show checkbox to change the question to the new format. Clear the Show checkbox to return to the original question style.

Question formats

You can also use the Show topic to show or hide a question and to insert a separating line between questions.

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1. Select the question in the Questionnaire window.
2. Select Show in the topics drop-down list.
3. Select Line Before in the next drop-down.
4. Select the Show checkbox. This lets you use the Line Style button.

5. Click the Line Style button. This opens the Separating Line dialog where you can set the appearance of the separating line.

Separating Line dialog

You can also use the Show topic to show or hide a question and to display the question in a different format.

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Showing or hiding the question

1. Select Show from the toolbar topic menu.
2. Select (All) from the question element list.

3. Clear the Show box to hide the question. Select the Show box to display the question.

When the question is hidden you can still access it by selecting the Hidden label.

Showing or hiding part of a question

1. Select Show from the toolbar topic menu.
2. Select the question element from the element list.

3. Clear the Show box to hide the question element. Select the Show box to display the question element.

You can also use the Show topic to display a question in a different format and to insert a separating line between questions.

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The question text can be placed above or beside the question. The default setting is for the question text to appear above the list of codes and the footnote to appear below the list of codes.

When you select Beside, the question text is to the left of the question codes.

When you change the position of the code box, it is changed relative to the code label. This is usually set to Left or Right for single or multi-choice codes, and Below for the first row of a grid.

The footnote text can be placed below or beside the question. When you select Beside, the question text is to the right of the question codes.

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The elements of the question that you can alter in Margins are: (All), Name, Text, Grid Name, Grid Label, Position, Code Label, Code Value, Data, Check Mark, Code GoTo and Footnote.

You can alter the left, right, top and bottom margins by using the up and down buttons, or typing in new values.

Using (All)

If (All) is selected, the entire question, including the name, text and all of the codes and code labels, moves. Adjusting the left margin moves the entire question to the right. When you increase the top margin, the spacing at the top of each question element increases. The effect is to space out the entire question.

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Change the font type and size

1. In the Questionnaire window, select Font in the topic drop-down list.
2. Select the text, or position the cursor at the start of the change.
3. Select the font type from the drop-down list of fonts available on the device.

4. Select the font size from the drop-down list of font sizes available for the selected font type.

Bold, Italic and Underline

1. In the Questionnaire window, select Font in the topic drop-down list.
2. Select the text, or position the cursor at the start of the change.
3. Click  to make your text bold,  to make it italic or  to underline it.

Highlight the text

1. In the Questionnaire window, select Font in the topic drop-down list.
2. Select the text, or position the cursor at the start of the change.
3. Click  to highlight it in the highlight colour.

4. Change the highlight colour by right-clicking to show the colour palette. Select the highlight colour or click No Highlight at the top of the colour palette.

Change the text colour

1. In the Questionnaire window, select Font in the topic drop-down list.
2. Select the text, or position the cursor at the start of the change.
3. If you wish to change the text colour, select a different colour in the drop-down list.

Clear all formatting

1. In the Questionnaire window, select Font in the topic drop-down list.
2. Select the text that you want to change.
3. Click Reset to clear all formatting from the selected text.

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• Columns where you can display the answer choices or codes over one or more columns.
• Grid sets the number of columns equal to the number of codes in the question.
• Down or Across selects the display order of the codes in the columns.
• Full Page sets the question text and code list to the full-page width.
• Semantic shows the grid rows in a semantic style format.
• Compound places adjacent grids in a column layout horizontally across the page.
• None shows the codes adjacent to each other with no columns.

Setting the column layout

1. Select the question or questions that you want to change.
2. Select Columns in the Questionnaire topics menu.

3. In Columns, set the number of columns to display the answer codes. The default is 1 column. You can choose from 1 column to a maximum of 20 columns. When you have a large number of columns, check that the labels are easy to read. The Columns option is only available for single and multiple-choice questions only.
4. Click Grid to show the answer codes as a single line across the page. The number of columns is always the same as the number of codes. If you have a large number of codes, check that the label text shows fully in the available space. The Grid option is only available for single and multiple-choice questions only.
5. Click Full Page to show the both the question text and answer list using the full-page width. This ignores the columns settings specified in the Page section of the questionnaire properties. This is available for all questions.
6. You can toggle between Down and Across. Down orders the codes with the first code at the top of the first column, the second code underneath it. Across orders the codes with the first code at the top of the first column and the second code at the top of the second column. The Down and Across option is only available for single and multiple-choice questions only.
7. You can only use Compound when there are adjacent Grid questions. This places the grids in a column layout horizontally across the page.

Setting a multi column layout

The default settings are Columns set to 1 and Down set on. The codes are displayed underneath in each other in one column.

In this example, there are 2 columns and the order is set to Down. The codes are positioned below each other before starting the next column

Setting a grid layout

Selecting the Grid option sets the number of columns equal to the number of codes in the question.

When the number of codes is high, you may not be able to see all the code labels or boxes. To resolve this, you can use Full Page, reduce the length of the label text, or organise the question into a number of columns.

Setting the layout down or across

When the codes are displayed in columns, the order can be determined using the Down or Across buttons. The default is Down. The order shows the first code at the top of the first column with the second code underneath it. This continues until the column is broken and the next code is displayed at the top of the next column.

When you select Across, the order of the codes shows the first code at the top of the first column with the second code at the top of the second column, which continues to the maximum number of columns. Then the next code is displayed second in the list of the first column.

Setting a full-page layout

When you select Full Page, the layout of the question uses the entire width of the page and will ignore the columns settings in the questionnaire page setup. This is useful where you require some questions, such as instructions, to be full width and other questions to be a smaller width. If you set the page width as the full width, then the layout will not change.

Semantic layout

Semantic scale questions use contrasting adjectives or objects where each pair of items is at opposite ends of a bipolar scale, such as Good to Poor. When you add a Semantic Scale question, this automatically selects the Semantic option in the Columns topic.

You can also display grids as a semantic scale by selecting the Semantic button.

This takes the first and last grid headers and displays the option boxes in between the two opposite descriptions. Note that the code labels need to be visible for each grid row.

Compound

When you select Compound ,the live interview shows the grids next to each other. The grids do not change position in the Questionnaire design window. There are more options available using the Compound topic.

Setting a no columns layout

This settings removes the column layout. The codes labels display adjacent to each other with no columns. This setting is usually used with questions that show as buttons.

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1. Select Find in the toolbar topics drop-down list.
2. Type in the search text in the empty box to the right of the topics drop-down list.

3. Press Enter to search the questionnaire, from the current cursor position to the end of the questionnaire.This highlights the first example of the search text.
4. Press Enter again and to search for the next example.
5. At the end of the questionnaire, confirm to continue the search from the beginning of the questionnaire.

Use the controls Find Next   to find the next occurrence and Find Previous   to find the previous occurrence.

The box containing the search text will store any previous searches in a drop-down list, so you can repeat searches without retyping the text. This is cleared when the Questionnaire window is closed.

Replacing text

Click Find/Replace to open the Find dialog where you have more options to find and replace text.

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Add the border

1. Select the question or questions in the Questionnaire window.
2. In the topic drop-down, select Border.
3. Choose the style, width and colour of the border. This changes all sides of the border. You can see the border changes in the Questionnaire window.

4. Click the Advanced button to set the appearance of each side of the border.

This change affects all language edition of the same publication, such as all online editions, but the change is not shown in other publication editions, such as paper editions.

Advanced border settings

Set the border properties for each side of the border. You can see the border changes in the Questionnaire window.

Click Close to return to the Questionnaire window.

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Changing the background color

1. Select Background in the topic drop-down.
2. In the next drop-down, select the area to apply the background. To apply the background to the entire question, select (All). To apply the background to the all pages, select (Page).
3. Click the Colour button, and select a color from the palette.

Adding a picture to the background

1. Select Background in the topic drop-down.
2. In the next drop-down, select the area to apply the background. To apply the background to the entire question, select (All). To apply the background to the all pages, select (Page).
3. Click the Picture button. This displays the Picture dialog.
4. Select a picture from the file name drop-down or click Browse to browse for the picture file. The picture path name is shown in the drop-down. Click Remove to clear the picture.

5. You can align the picture horizontally using the Horizontal drop-down, with Left, Centre and Right options. You can align the picture vertically using the Vertical drop-down, with Top, Centre, Bottom options.
6. The area assigned for the selected part of the question determines the size of the picture. For an online edition you can select Tile or Fixed to repeat or fix the image. For a paper edition you can select Stretch or Fit to resize the image or Tile and Zoom to repeat or scale the image. This can be done both horizontally and vertically.
7. If available, you can colourize the GIF file by selecting a color from the drop-down.
8. Click Zoom and enter a percentage value to resize the image in the background.
9. Click OK to save the changes.

If the background uses a color and a picture, the color shows in areas where the picture does not fill the space. The background preview area on the toolbar shows a split view with the color in the top half and the picture in the bottom half.

Changes to the background are the same in all language editions for a single output edition, but will not change other output editions as this affects the style.

Adding highlighting in online editions

Highlighting a row makes it clear to the respondent which choice they are selecting. When a respondent moves the mouse over a question, the question label and answer box are highlighted in this color.

Row highlight for selected questions

1. Select the question or questions to highlight.
2. Select Background in the topic drop-down.
3. Select Row Highlight in the second drop-down list.
4. Click the Colour button, and select a color from the palette.

The selected question(s) will now have a highlight when the respondent selects them in an online survey.

Row highlight for all questions

1. Select the question to highlight.
2. Click Style mode on the Questionnaire window toolbar. This changes to style mode and the selected question highlight changes to red.
3. To make highlighting available on all questions, select All Styles from the style menu on the left.
4. Set the toolbar topic to Background.
5. Select Row Highlight in the second drop-down list.
6. Click the Colour button, and select a color from the palette.

All styles will now be highlighted when selected in an online questionnaire.

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The available elements are: Name, Text, Grid Name, Grid Label, Code Label, Code Value, Data, Code Box, Code GoTo, Footnote and Answer Area.

• You can specify the horizontal alignment as Left, Centre or Right.

• You can specify the vertical alignment as Auto, Top, Middle or Bottom. 

The alignment set in the question style determines the default settings of the horizontal and vertical alignment.

The alignment can be set for each edition in the survey, for example, you can change the appearance to fit a paper or online survey.

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• Alignment sets left, centre or right alignment for each question element.
• Background sets the colours and patterns of the background for question elements.  To set backgrounds for the entire questionnaire use page set-up.
• Border allows you to apply borders to questions.
• Boxes sets the shape and size of the boxes for the question codes.
• Break inserts a page break, column break or a section break.
• Columns sets the number of columns used to display the question codes.
• Compound specifies whether the grid is part of a compound grid. This is only available in Design mode.
• Find allows text to be found and/or replaced with questionnaire text.
• Font sets the font type,size andcolor, with settings for bold, italics, underline.
• Margins sets the left, right, top and bottom margins for each element of a question or text item.
• Numbering shows the method of question numbering for each question, together with inclusion and exclusion of Q’s, full stops and brackets.
• Positions sets the position of question text and code boxes relative to each other.
• Response sets the response type of each question to either single, multiple, quantity, literal, date or time.
• Show enables you to select which elements you wish to display on the questionnaire, and which you would like to hide.
• Tabs specifies the relative spaces apportioned to individual elements within a question.

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To combine the grids into a compound grid, they must:

• follow each other in the questionnaire
• not have page breaks between the grids
• contain the same number of questions or rows
• contain grids or open series. These are the question styles Grid First, Grid Next and Open Series First, Open Series Next or styles that are based on them.
• have the same Show settings for Space before and Line before

Create the first grid

The first grid or open series question sets the questions that are used for each row. You can add question text in subsequent grids but when they are combined in the compound grid only the question text from the first grid will be shown.

In this example, a Grid First question starts the compound grid.

1. Click New Question to add a new question.
2. In the style selection drop down list change the style to Grid First. This will allow you to set up the headings for the first of a series of grid questions.

3. In the area marked Click here for text, enter your question text, for example “Please tell us about your experience today.”
4. Press the Tab key on your keyboard and enter the first answer, such as “Good”. Press Tab to create the next code and enter each subsequent answer. After the last code press the Down arrow   instead of Tab.
5. The cursor will move to the text of the first Grid Label. Type the first item, such as “Coffee Shop” and press Tab.
6. This creates the next grid row automatically changing the style to Grid Next for the second and subsequent rows. Enter the next Grid Label.

7. Press Tab to create another grid row or press Enter to complete the grid and move to a new question.

Create subsequent grids

Create the other grids that form part of the compound grid in the same way. Multiple grids can be added to the compound grid, but consideration should be given to the layout of the questionnaire.

When adding the grids make sure there are no page breaks between them.

In this example, an open series question asks the respondents how much they spent.

1. Click New Question to add a new question.
2. In the style selection drop down list change the style to Open Series First. This will allow you to set up the heading for the first of a series of questions, each of which can contain numbers or text.

3. In the area marked Click here for text, enter your question text.
4. Press Tab and enter the text for the first row.
5. Press Tab. and enter the text for the next row. This automatically changes the style to Open Series Next for the second and subsequent rows.
6. Press Tab. and enter the text for the next row. This automatically changes the style to Open Next for the second and subsequent rows.
7. If you need more questions press Tab again and repeat the process.

8. If you wish to change the response type, select Response in the toolbar and select the response type. In this example, the response type is Quantity. Any following questions will keep the new response type.

Combine the grids

The next step is to combine the grids and open series questions to create the compound grid.

1. If you do not want the question number showing across the compound grid, remove the question numbers on the grids by selecting Show and clearing the Show option for the Name.

2. Select the first row of the second or subsequent grid.
3. In the menu, select Columns from the second drop-down.
4. Click the Compound button to set this grid as part of the compound grid. The display of the grids in the Questionnaire design window will not change.

5. Repeat this for any further consecutive grids that are part of the compound grid.

When this compound grid appears in a live interview, the open series question (Q2) displays adjacent to the grid question (Q1).

Adjusting the proportional width used by each grid

By default, the grids within the compound grid are automatically spaced across the web page. You can adjust the width of each grid set up in the compound grid.

After you have set up the compound grid, you can set the widths in the Questionnaire design window.

1. Select the grid in the questionnaire.
2. Select ‘Compound’ in the toolbar and you then have the option to specify whether the grid is the starting point for a compound grid or whether it continues to be a part.

3. To turn the setting off, you can select the option Not a compound grid. This is the setting shown if the grid question is not part of a compound grid.
4. The sizing defaults to Auto. With this setting, the grid width is automatically calculated during the live interview.
5. To set the proportional width, clear the Auto checkbox. This displays a percentage width the grid will use. Enter the percentage required.
6. Repeat this for each grid set up in the compound grid.
7. Test that the compound grid display in the required way by previewing the questionnaire.

If one of the grids is set to auto, and the other grids have a percentage specified, then the automatically sized grid is displayed with the minimum size required. The other grids will be displayed in the specified ratio across the rest of the available page width.

If you set the combined percentages to more than 100%, Snap XMP Desktop will set them in the ratio they are specified in. For example, if you have 3 grids and you set them all to 50%, Snap XMP Desktop will set them to around 33% each.

Different Editions

In a survey that has multiple editions you will need to consider how the layout of the questionnaire will look for each edition during the live interview.

You must set up the compound grid for each edition. Editions used for smaller screens such as for a phone or tablet may not be suitable for larger compound grids.

Customising the compound grid

The appearance of each grid or open series can be customised individually. When the grids are combined in a compound grid, each grid is displayed with its own styling, including fonts, colours and background.

If you want to create a uniform grid with the same styling, customise each grid in the same way. Creating a question style for the compound grid helps make sure that all the grids have the same appearance.

If you want each section of the grid to be distinct then style each grid as required.

Please note: The line spacing settings given by Space before and Line before (found in the Show option) must be the same for all grids regardless of styling.

Testing the compound grid

The compound grid does not show in the Questionnaire design window, only the individual grids are available.

When you test the compound grid appearance, publish the questionnaire as a preview. In Snap XMP Desktop, more information is available at Testing the questionnaire online and in Snap XMP Online more information is available in the Previewing the published survey section in Publishing your survey.

Please note: The compound grids are only available with the new interviewer. If the grids are not showing as a compound grid, make sure you are using the new interviewer. You can check this in the Questionnaire properties. Select the Interview section and click the Advanced button then clear both interview settings.

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Multi-choice, Single choice and Grid questions

Open Ended, Open First and Open Next questions

Changing the response type

1. Select the question required, or a part of the question required. The toolbar will display the response types appropriate to that type of question.
2. Select Response in the toolbar topic list.

3. Select the appropriate response from those available for that question type.
4. The respondent can only enter responses of the specified type.

If you wish to change the response type for all questions using the current style, then click the Set All button. The Set All option is only available in Style mode. This will also set the underlying response type for that particular style so any new questions created with that style would have the same response type.

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The boxes available for multi-choice questions are displayed in the drop down list next to the Boxes toolbar topic. If you are able to design your own boxes for a question, you can select Image in this list.

You can change the border style and colour and the size and position of the answer box for a literal question.

Using the default boxes

The standard box used in a questionnaire designed in Snap XMP Desktop is a for both multi choice questions and open-ended questions. These can be easily changed at the level of the entire questionnaire, at the level of question styles, or at the level of individual questions.

• To change a box for a single question, work in Design Mode
• To change the boxes for all questions in a style or all styles, work in Style Mode

1. Select the question that you wish to alter and change the toolbar topic to Boxes.
2. Ensure the Style Selection Box is set to the appropriate choice so all questions set to the same style will have the boxes altered.
3. Select a new box shape from the images drop down list.

Snap XMP Desktop only displays the box styles appropriate for the document edition you are using.

Displaying multi-choice questions as drop down lists

In the web based editions of a questionnaire, you can display a multi-choice question as:

• labelled boxes
• a drop down list

The Drop-down option is most suitable for Single Response questions, as the Multiple Response version requires use of the Ctrl key on the keyboard to make multiple selections.

By default

• Single Response questions are converted to radio buttons to force the respondent to choose only one answer.
• Multiple Response questions use standard square check boxes so the respondent can make any number of choices.

To switch between the drop down list or boxes:

1. Select the style topic Show
2. Select the value As Drop-down
3. Check the Show box to use the drop down and clear the Show box to use boxes
4. The question appears differently in the Questionnaire window and the Web browser.

In the Questionnaire window

In the Web Browser

Changing the answer box for Open Ended questions

Open ended or literal response boxes provide a space where the respondent can enter free format data.

You can change the size, border and position of the answer box for an open ended question.

Changing the size

The size of a literal response box can be fixed or proportional. If it is fixed, it is defined by the number of characters it can contain. Fixed box sizes are useful for paper questionnaires and for questions where the answer is of a known length, for example, a date. Proportional boxes are useful for questionnaires displayed on screen, where you do not know the size of the screen used, which could be a smart phone, kiosk or monitor.

You can switch between the Fixed and Scaled box sizes. It may be simplest to set a fixed box size and then convert it.

Setting a fixed box size

1. Select Boxes in the toolbar topics list at the top of the questionnaire window.
2. Set Size to Fixed.

3. Change the Size value. Note that this essentially gives the box area, so if the box is in a narrow space; it expands downwards so all the characters will fit in.

Setting a proportional box size

1. Set Size to Scaled.

2. Set the % value to the percentage of available space to use.
3. Set rows to the number of lines in the box. This determines the box height.

Changing the position relative to the question

The response box can be below the question text or to the right of the question text.

1. Select Positions in the toolbar topics list

2. Select Beside to put the response box to the right of the question. The question text and response box spaces will get narrower to fit them both into the space.

Changing the border style and colour

1. Select Boxes in the toolbar topics list.

2. Click Style. The Box Style dialog opens.

3. Select the box colours and border style that you would like.

Specifying a graphic to use as a box

Snap XMP Desktop comes with some pre-defined image files for check boxes and radio buttons. These are in pairs, providing both an empty and a selected version of each graphic.

You can:

• use the pre-defined pairs of Snap XMP Desktop box graphics
• combine the Snap XMP Desktop box graphics into different pairs
• use your own graphics

1. Select the question that you wish to alter and change the toolbar topic to Boxes.
2. Ensure the Style Selection Box is shows the quesiton style you want to change. In the example below it is set to Multi Choice, so all questions set to the same style (Multi Choice) will have the boxes altered.
3. Select Image from the drop-down list of available options.

4. The check boxes changes to the default picture box for that style.
5. Click the Image button on the Questionnaire toolbar ribbon. The Image Checkboxes dialog appears.

6. If you wish to apply a set of four images, defined using the Snap XMP Desktop graphic box naming convention, check the Synchronise box.
7. Click the Edit button of the image you wish to change. (Any image if the Synchronise box is checked.)

The Image Properties dialog appears.

8. Click Browse to select a new image file. The Files of type is the type of box that you are editing. If you wish to view graphics files where the file name does not match the convention for the box type, change this setting.
9. If you have selected a .gif image, you may tint it by selecting a color in the Colourize Gif box.
10. Click OK to use the selected image.

Snap XMP Desktop Graphic Box Naming Convention

Images used for check-boxes can be in .bmp, .gif or .jpg format. They can be of any size or shape. If you are combining images into sets (so you can use the Synchronise feature to have matched boxes), you must use the Snap file naming convention to identify box graphics. If your set of images is identified by Name, Snap XMP Desktop expects the images to have these file names.

So, if you have a set of mouth images in gif format, you might call them Check-mouth-On.gif, Check-mouth-Off.gif, Radio-mouth-On.gif and Radio-mouth-Off.gif.

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The elements of a question are separated by spacing elements.

The size of these elements is defined by the Tabs entry on the Toolbar topics menu.

These elements may be shown or hidden, depending on the type of question.

Multi-choice questions

For a multi-part question, such as a grid, there are more elements.

Literal question spacing

By default, a literal question only displays the Name, text and code box for responses. No other items are visible. The code box is in a space called the box area. The width of these elements is specified in the Tabs item in the toolbar topics list.

The percentage defined for the Name is a percentage of the total column width.

By default, the space for responses is below the question text. The spaces for the name and the text elements combine to make up the whole width of the column. The space for the Name and the box area also combine to make up the whole width of the column. In this case, the width of the Text space specified in the Tabs toolbar topic is ignored.

If the space for responses beside the question text, the spaces for Name, Text and the box area take up the whole width of the column. The Text and Box areas share the space available for the question.

The size of the response box is set according to the number of characters that can be entered in it. If it needs to be larger than the width that is available, it will extend downwards to ensure there is enough space. You can set the response box size in the Boxes toolbar topic or in the Variable properties dialog.

The size of the Text box is set as a percentage in the Tabs box. It is a percentage of the space available for the question, not a percentage of the whole column width.

Hidden space

The box area is between two spaces, the code offset and the code verge. These specify how much space there is before and after the box area. By default, this is set to zero. The code offset and code verges are taken out of the space available for the response.

You increase the code offset and code verge size using the Tabs item in the Toolbar topics list. Tabs values are in percentages. If you set the Code offset value to 10%, and the Code verge value to 15%, you then have 75% of the response space available for the box.

This means that the same tab values for code offset and code verge on a question with a response to the side or beneath, will produce different sizes of space, as the total space available for responses is different. The two diagrams below show a question with 10% code offset and 15% code verge tabs with the question above or beside the response.

Multi-choice and grid question spacing

The elements visible in a multi-choice question are very similar to those in a literal question.

There is an additional area for the Code Label. This is prefixed by a code offset, which specifies the space between the code label and the previous element. There is also a code verge area, which defines the space between the box and the edge of the questionnaire (or the column in multi-column questionnaires)

Grid questions are essentially a stack of multi-choice questions. By default, they have extra areas for the Grid Name and the Grid Label.

The space between the columns of the grid (not shown on the diagram) is the Code Gutter.

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Inserting a page break starts a new page and separates the questions onto different pages. To introduce a page break you have three alternatives.

• Click the right hand mouse button and select Break|Page Break
• Press Ctrl + Shift + B to insert a page break above the selected question
• Select the Break option in the Toolbar Topics list and check or clear the Page Break box.

You may remove a break by repeating these actions to toggle the break on and off.

It is recommended to insert your own page breaks to ensure:

• the login page contains all the text you require
• each survey page fits onto a screen without scrolling
• when designing for mobile surveys there is a limited amount of screen space available and you may want to insert more page breaks so each page only has a few questions

Column Breaks

Inserting a column break starts a new column and separates the questions onto different pages. To introduce a column break you have three alternatives.

• Click the right hand mouse button and select Break|Column Break
• Press Ctrl + Shift + A to insert or remove a column break above the selected question
• Select the Break option in the Toolbar Topics list and check or clear the Column Break box.

You may remove a break by repeating these actions to toggle the break on and off.

Adjust the columns for a single question

1. Select the question and set the toolbar topic to Columns. The toolbar shows the number of columns used for the current style, together with Grid, Full Page, Down and Across buttons.
2. Change the setting as required. Increasing the columns will display the codes across the screen and decreasing the columns will display the codes vertically.
3. Select Full Page to stretch the question across the width of the page or screen.

Section Breaks

A section break starts a new section on the same page. They are used to divide your questionnaire into relevant sections so a different numbering system can be displayed in each section.

To introduce a section break you have two alternatives.

• Click the right hand mouse button and select Break|Section Break
• Select the Break option in the Toolbar Topics list and check or clear the Section Break box.

1. When you create a section break the New Section Break dialog will be displayed.

2. Select Start using numbered sections from the dialog box. This will divide the questionnaire into two sections placing a section break above the selected question and the questions will have a new numbering system. For example, the first question in the first section will be Q1.1, the second question will be Q1.2; the first question in the second section will be Q2.1 etc.
3. The other option Start using lettered sections will start a new numbering system beginning with letters, for example, the question you have selected will be renamed B1 and the section above will rename Q1 to A1, A2 etc.
4. Select the OK button and the questionnaire is updated with the new sections and numbering system.
5. A section break mark is placed in the questionnaire. It can be removed again by clearing the Section Break check box.

Using the Section button

1. Select Break in the toolbar topics menu.
2. Click Section… on the toolbar to open the Section break properties dialog.

3. If “Use Custom Name” is selected, type in the number or letter format to be used in the section. Also ensure either a number or letter format is selected in the “Type of Sections” box.
4. Click OK.
5. A dialog will appear asking if you wish to renumber the questionnaire. Click OK. The questionnaire will be renumbered and the new numbering system displayed on the questionnaire.

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1. Open the Questionnaire window in Design mode .
2. Select the question that you wish to change.
3. Change the toolbar topic to Numbering. There are three controls for numbering.
   • A drop-down list of types of numbering
   • A Name field showing the appearance of the question number
   • A Grid Name field showing the number appearance for grid questions

4. Click on an element in the Name or Grid Name boxes to switch its display on or off. Any part that is shown in grey will not be displayed; any part in bold will display. In the example only the letter Q and the number 1 is in bold, everything else is grey.

Control over the presentation of the numbering of question names does not change the question number stored in the survey. If the numbering system does not use the letter Q, the question Q1 in the questionnaire still has the variable name Q1 in the list of variables.

Hiding question numbers

You can hide the question numbers in your survey. This helps in online questionnaires with routing, where you do not want the respondent to see that they are not answering questions in number sequence.

Hiding all question numbers in your survey

1. Click to go into Style mode.
2. Select All Styles from the style dropdown list.
3. Select Show from the toolbar topic menu.
4. Select Name (for question numbers) or Grid Name (for grid question numbers) from the element list.

5. Clear the Show box to hide the question numbers.

Hiding the question number for an individual question

1. Click to go into Design mode.
2. Select the question.
3. Select Show from the toolbar topic menu.
4. Select Name (for question numbers) or Grid Name (for grid question numbers) from the element list.

5. Clear the Show box to hide the question number for the selected question only.

Changing the texts to remove references to question numbers

When respondents complete an online questionnaire, they are shown a message if they miss a question that they must answer. By default, these messages contain the question number. If your survey does not display the question number, it is confusing when it appears in a message, so you should change the messages as well. You can do this by editing the messages individually.

1. Open your survey in the Questionnaire window.
2. Click Questionnaire Properties on the Questionnaire window toolbar to open the Questionnaire Properties dialog.
3. Scroll down the sections in the left hand pane until you get to Texts and select it.
4. Look through the list of texts and edit the text where it refers to question numbers. Question numbers replace the string {question} wherever it appears in the texts.
5. Click Save As to save all the messages to a new file. You can then use this file in other surveys.
6. Click OK to save your changes.

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