Make your survey’s smarter! Include the answer of one question into the question of another.

For example, say a user had a choice of their favorite search engine and they chose Google. The next question could read “Why do you like to use Google?”. Doesn’t that sound much better than “Why do you like the search engine you chose above?” We think so!

To use question piping, just use [Q#] in the title of a question, where # represents the question to fetch the answer from. Question numbers are displayed when you edit a question, next to the red X used to remove the question.

Currently, question piping works with the text field and single/multiple choice question types.

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1. November 28th, 2006 at 12:28 pm Todd Says:
   Since I’m not in the beta and can’t seeif you have this feature, I wanted to let you know about it.

   It would be very useful to have a multi-choice area (or radio block), that when you selected an item, it would also allow you to show a subitem for more info.

   For example. When we do surveys on cancelled accounts, we have a question block for Why are you leaving. It has several answers and one is “Lacking a feature”. If they click that checkbox, it would be very helpful to open up a little box under that and indented a little to allow further comment so we can actually find out which feature they wanted. This should be done without a page refresh or having to “pipe” anything. Just display a hidden would be best.

   If you need more details, feel free to contact me.

2. November 28th, 2006 at 1:18 pm admin Says:
   Todd,

   Thanks for the suggestion. It’s been added to our list and we will see if we can implement something like this in some way.